Tyson’s Fistic Legacy: Judging Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

So, then, the much battered remnants of Mike Tyson are being ruthlessly kicked down the all-time ladder by the usual suspects who like to be first past the revisionist post. Oh dear, oh dear. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We all have it. It is just that some of us claim that we could see the future all along.

What I consistently fail to understand is how the future can reach back and change the past, unless a clever boffin like Stephen Hawking can enlighten me.

You rate a prime fighter on what you see and know at the time, the only yardsticks you have. What happens thereafter is the exclusive and privileged knowledge of the gods. We have all been guilty of rushing to judgement and being fooled. Nat Fleischer famously heralded a ‘new era in boxing’ after Ingemar Johansson’s bludgeoning of Floyd Patterson at Yankee Stadium. Sonny Liston was classified as invincible by a generation of boxing writers. George Foreman, in the wake of his Kingston slaughter of Joe Frazier, immediately shot straight to number two on the hastily revised all-time heavyweight list of one trade editor. [details]

[La_Vibora]

Wow great article, I disagree with some points, but overall I liked what this author had to say and how he tried his best to look at it objectively. I will try to counter some of his points tomorrow when I am not tired.

[hemichromis]

yeh very good article

in ist first career his speed power and ability made himm seem invincible, in his second he llost alot of his speed and movement and most of all his heart. without these he became a man looking for the one punch knockout, however, without the presicision and accuracy of his earlier career he lacked the power to do it and lost to people who shouldnt have stood a chance.