re: Joe Frazier vs Mike Tyson (Who would win?)

I think that Tyson has gone from slightly overrated to vastly underrated, although it's his fault.

People use too many cliches when talking about Mike Tyson. "If you fight back, he'll fold" or "he didn't fight anyone when he was young". Those arguments are lazy and pretty dumb. When Mike was with Cus, he was the most technicly sound boxer EVER. He wasn't just some brawler back then like he ended up being years later. He was great. I'm not saying that Cus was the greatest trainer whoever lived, and Im not saying he was the #1 reason Tyson was great, but for whatever reason, Tyson loved and respected him more than anyone that he's ever had in his life. After Cus died and when Don King came into the picture, you saw changes in Tyson's attitude and eventually in the ring. He lost his discipline.

Still, for those years that he was focused on fighting he was great, maybe the greatest ever. I know it's not the poetic thing to say, but it's true. No one was going to stop him during those years.