Did mike tyson ever get an iq test?.

[Yogi]

This isnt a joke thread . It is generally believed that mike tyson has the iq of a goldfish but anyone who has interviewed him will attest to the fact that tyson is far more intelligent than the dim witted imbecile that is perpetuated by the media.

I don't know about an IQ test, but Reg Gutteridge writes about Tyson taking an educational assessment examination for a week when he first went to prison, and the "embarrassing results showed that he(Tyson) had the reading level of an 11-year-old".

Of course, Tyson did much to further himself in that department while in prison, as he spent muh of his time reading the words of authors like Tolstoy, Hemingway, Nietzche, etc. Tyson himself says he read about a hundred different books while in prison...Credit to him, says I.

Still wouldn't call him an intelligent human being nowadays, but I would imagine the Tyson of today is considerly above the level of when Tyson "was considered by some members of the staff(Tryon School...Tyson's juvenile center) to be ******ed".

[GEOFFHAYES]

Hey, Reggie Gutteridge.. guys a legend. We'll never get those ****ing days back.. Reg doing Eubank fights on ITV on a Saturday night, those were national occasions. I think Chris is Reg's personal favourite, even eclipsing Tyson. Like Bruno is Harry Carpenter's personal favourite, even eclipsing Ali.

[GEOFFHAYES]

I don't know about an IQ test, but Reg Gutteridge writes about Tyson taking an educational assessment examination for a week when he first went to prison, and the "embarrassing results showed that he(Tyson) had the reading level of an 11-year-old".

Of course, Tyson did much to further himself in that department while in prison, as he spent muh of his time reading the words of authors like Tolstoy, Hemingway, Nietzche, etc. Tyson himself says he read about a hundred different books while in prison...Credit to him, says I.

Still wouldn't call him an intelligent human being nowadays, but I would imagine the Tyson of today is considerly above the level of when Tyson "was considered by some members of the staff(Tryon School...Tyson's juvenile center) to be ******ed".

Tyson couldn't of improved his intelligence in prison, he doesn't speak anywhere near as intelligently as he did on the VHS I have from April '87 where he takes you through HW history with Harry Carpenter in a BBC editing studio. He appears very intelligent in this interview.

[GEOFFHAYES]

Jose Torres says he never knew a more intelligent young boxer.

[Yogi]

Tyson couldn't of improved his intelligence in prison

I strongly disagree with that, because anybody who even picks up & reads even one book that is intended for adult reading, is certainly going to pick up some information within said book. If someone reads three books, then they expand their minds even more so. A hundred books...Well, that's taking in a whole lot of information and/or ideas into one's mind.

Tyson has always had a fairly good vocabulary (which isn't neccessarily a sign of intelligence...my wife calls me an idiot almost daily, yet I think my own vocabulary is pretty decent), and in 1987 I'm very sure he was recieving a good amount of direct hands-on coaching from Jacobs & Cayton, as far as what he says or doesn't say in interviews, and those lessons should be more prevailant back in those days.

[GEOFFHAYES]

He couldn't of in the sense that he spoke like an idiot post-prison, but a very smart kid in the mid-80's.

But maybe that was more to do with the fact that he kind of gave up on life in mid-late '88, and just didn't care any longer. He spoke like an idiot between then and prison too.. but I never heard him speak like an idiot pre-Givens/King ****, and I have footage of him at 15 years old speaking philosophically.

[phallus]

The only boxer i've heard of, that is a member of MENSA, is Bobby Czyz.

Bobby Czyz is very interesting, he's a genius but he had a very tough childhood. his alcoholic father used to beat him up every day, so i guess u could say he's tough and smart

[THE REAL NINJA]

Intelligence Interval Cognitive Designation Common Possessors*
85 - 114 =Average Pupils at junior high school=Mike Tyson... ..
115 - 124 =Above average Pupils at senior high school
125 - 134 =Gifted University graduates
135 - 144 =Highly gifted Intellectuals
145 - 154 =Genius =Professors
155 - 164= Genius= Nobel Prize Winners
165 - 179= High genius
180 - 200 =Highest genius
>200 ="Unmeasurable" genius

1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer Austria 165
2. Stephen W. Hawking Physicist England 160
3. Raphael Artist Italy 170
4. Plato Philosopher Greece 170
5. Paul Allen Microsoft cofounder USA 160
6. Ludwig van Beethoven Composer Germany 165
7. Dolph Lundgren Actor Sweden 160
8. Bill Gates CEO, Microsoft USA 160
9. Benjamin Franklin Writer, scientist & politician USA 160
10. Albert Einstein Physicist USA 160

[Larry Merchant]

he is smart he just talks funny..he knows alot boxing he has made 200.00 million dollars also cant be totally dumb to do that

[Larry Merchant]

also he is in a sport where your brain cells die with every punch u get hit by in the head.