Was Mike Tyson chinny?

[Cutthroat]

Absolutely not. Tyson had a fantastic chin.

So if Wilder got stopped by Douglas would you say his chin is glass?

Or a cruiser like Holyfield?

Look at AJ, everybody agrees he's chinny & he just got blasted by a 270lb man that can generate serious power, more than the guys that stopped Mike.

And where does Mavrovic fit into all this? I seen LL hit too many guys clean like Mav to consider his power on the level of guys today.

[TyrantT316]

Good chin isn't about never being hurt or never being stopped.

Tyson was beat up vs Douglas and Lewis badly before succumbing. vs. Holyfield he was eating a lot and was stopped on his feet.

He was well past it vs Williams and McBride and sort of just wilted as he wasn't in it anymore (not to mention his knee injury vs Williams).

Foreman was dropped in his career, but that didn't make him chinny.

Just look at the context.

[LacedUp]

So if Wilder got stopped by Douglas would you say his chin is glass?

Or a cruiser like Holyfield?

Look at AJ, everybody agrees he's chinny & he just got blasted by a 270lb man that can generate serious power, more than the guys that stopped Mike.

And where does Mavrovic fit into all this? I seen LL hit too many guys clean like Mav to consider his power on the level of guys today.

People think today that Wilder's chin is glass! I don't agree with that though, he's a pretty tough guy.

I don't think Ruiz is a bigger puncher than the guys who stopped mike in his prime i.e. holyfield and douglas. and also those fights were the result of two absolute wars, especially douglas he got the shiet beat out of him for the last 5 rounds.

So it's a combination of the fight itself, the skills and the power.

[JakeTheBoxer]

Overrated bum beater whose best win is 100 years old Holmes. Lewis and Holyfield, the real ATG-s showed him what he was.

[Money Shot]

He shipped a huge amount of punishment from Douglas, albeit not a big puncher but most fighters would have been knocked out way before Mike was. Was shot vs Lewis, shot to bits later on.

[BKM-]

Holyfield is the most underrated power puncher of all time, threads like this show it. Look into how many durable guys he managed to either drop, hurt or stop, it's actually quite impressive.

[BoxcarMurphy]

Mike Tyson became cokey, not chinny.

That booger sugar got the best of him.

His early kayo victories over shadowed his beautiful timed slips. He started to believe in his power to the point, that he allowed his defense to regress and he took whoopings because of it.

It would have been amazing to see what he could of become defensively, as he matured into a veteran fighter, but unfortunately, we all know how that story ends.

[Guest]

Silly thread. Douglas hit him with about 1000 punches.

Holyfield needs to be looked at, but when he was KO'd by Lewis (not a shameful thing) he was way past his prime.




All of his KO losses were actually the power of Danny Williams travelling back through time.

[PeasantCrusha]

Mike Tyson ate shots from Razor Ruddock like nothing...ATG chin.

Mike Tyson would KO Joshua in 3. NO doubt....

[Godsfly]

Tysons neck was wider then your torso lol you would have to put on a beating to actually have a chance of stopping him. Joshua gets clipped and ether wobbles on bambie legs or goes down. Tyson was never the fighter to get clipped by one shot and gets on bambie legs. U had to beat him over the course of a long hall fight. The guys chin was rock. Also I believe Douglas was hitting harder then ruiz that night he stopped Tyson. Holyfield all around was a bigger puncher to Ruiz. These guys also had crazy amounts of technique the way they threw their punches was devastating which made it worse. Ruiz sorta wings his shots......