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Weaknesses in prime Tyson.
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A few guys have said as much already but I feel like just hopping in and saying I agree. Watch Tyson's career from start to finish and you will see it becomes very very apparent that at a certain point he is flawed. What are those flaws? As guys have said - he allowed himself to be clinched and his lack of mental toughness whenever he didn't get his own way. Mike looked incredible when he could blitz through guys, no doubt, but when he started to come up against guys who either knew how to tie him up and/or could withstand a beating and still be there fighting, he didn't look the same animal. He was still impressive, it just becomes clear at a certain point that there was a glaring aspect or two in his game and they did not get improved upon necessarily and therefore we can class them as a weakness.
In the clinch and his mental game. Not his inside game and not his heart. Mike had some great short shots on the inside of his opponents range but he was very often passive in the clinch and allowed the action to dip.
Mainly I would say his heart isn't in question, it was his head.Last edited by SthPaw; 09-27-2017, 01:58 PM.
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IMHO, the real "weakness" of "Prime Mike Tyson"--i.e., Mike from the advent of his professional career until he fired Kevin Rooney in late 1988--is a quality which took extreme circumstances to emerge as such; in an alternative universe it might well be viewed as a strength or have passed largely unnoticed--it is this: Mike was not primarily self-motivated. Rather, he was driven by a desire to win the love and regard of key figures in his life whose esteem he coveted: namely, Cus D'Amato, Jimmy Jacobs, and Robin Givens. The fact that the first two died within a few years of each other, and Robin both abandoned him and had her true motivations come to light, left Mike rudderless and lost.
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Yes and which made him bitterly angry for years until well after he retired. He's quite beloved now and seems to be in a good place emotionally.
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