Was Mike Tyson mentally weak?

[Dr Rumack]

Many fans consider Tyson to be mentally weak.....do you agree with that?

The short answer is 'yes'. He responded very poorly to adversity any time he met it. And his career fits the profile of a flat track bully. Ruthless and brutal against lesser opposition. Very fragile when in with the best.

BUT...there's a caveat that goes with all this. Tyson's style, given his height, required enormous amounts of energy to sustain. A muscular fighter with that constant upper body movement burns through energy very quickly.

Not only was Tyson a guy who required a lot of energy to be effective, he was also very vulnerable without it. He couldn't tie up easily, or lean on a smaller opponent to wear them out an recover his own energy. He was a short guy with a defence that was very basic when his head movement was gone.

So it's hard to say for sure what his deal was. Was he mentally fragile? Yeah he was. But his style was a big factor too and that shouldn't be forgotten.

[.:: JSFD26 ::.]

That's not mental issues or example of mental issues...those are examples of "killer instinct" something only real men have and not pussy choir boys like yourself...

You are what's wrong with this place for the most part. The dude didn't say anything offensive so why are you attacking him? Sometimes it's impossible to debate around this place.

Biting someone's ear off is definitely a mental issue. No one in the right mind would bite someone else's ear off.

[KLockard23]

He was unstable and a loose cannon, that isn't the same as being mentally weak. I'm sure he was mentally strong in some ways and "weak" in others just like everyone is. Mental strength/weakness isn't as black and white as people wanna make it out to be.