How far could Tyson have gone if he had not fired Rooney?

[RussB23]

so many guys could sing that same if only song.

strange how tyson was ''focused'' vs bums but ''distracted'' vs ATGs

timing is everything when making excuses

You are delusional if you think he was the same fighter after prison. Im not even a big Tyson fan but the guy threw his career away. He wasnt focused on the sport anymore.

[D4thincarnation]

He couldn't overcome adversity so not very far. He still folds like a deck chair against Holyfield in an alternate universe.

I give him credit though for being supremely skilled. He would flatten the overrated stiffs in the modern era like Klitschko, Fury and Femi.

Wlad, probably Vitali, No. Vitali won't be bullied, and Mike would have folded again.

[McNulty]

I don't care who says what, if Tyson stayed focused and not so fùcked up he could have beat them all. Holy, Lennox Bowe, Foreman, whoever.

The guy was unstoppable and for a HW his size, he was a supernova. Under 6'0" knocking out giants, since when have we had that since? We won't see it again in our lifetime, bet on it.

[McNulty]

spinks was ready to leave.

Huh? Where are you getting that from?

[amuroray]

Lol the tyson myth still lives on.

He wouldve lost to the same guys. He simply wasnt as good as everyone thought he was

[DreamFighter]

shlt want that serious back then (cherry, duck, roids.....meh)

spinks was ready to leave.

do you think? he'd had his best two wins 2 years before. He must have been a solid slightly post prime at least.

[Long jabber]

so many guys could sing that same if only song.

strange how tyson was ''focused'' vs bums but ''distracted'' vs ATGs

timing is everything when making excuses

Spinks was a number?

[Long jabber]

Fact is Tyson was a great fighter and if he was focused the fights he had later in his career after his original team left would of been different.

I'm not saying he would of dominated and knocked them out but it would of been competitive at the very least.

[DreamFighter]

tyson had the physical gifts to beat them, he just lost the mental impetus.

Douglas was his for the losing, his one off, after that he could have pulled it together if he'd had the mental apparatus. His style is very different post prison, throwing far less, abandoning the angles,indicating a reduced tank that he simply was too diminished a man mentally to claw back after the break.

[_original_]

Tyson was a mental midget and would have unraveled one way or another. He would have still lost to Holy, Lewis, and Bowe even with Cus in his corner.