Tyson was awesome because of his mystique and his amazing punching power. He was a Tasmanian Devil of pure power. But he was a little too wild--not accurate enough with some of those big punches. And at his small size(for a Heavyweight), all it was ever gonna take was a bigger guy with a nice jab and a longer reach who--and this was the biggest thing--was not intimidated by him.

After Buster Douglas whipped his arse, the mystique was gone, and he was exposed. It would have been nice to see how he would have done without losing Cus, marrying Robin Givens, and getting involved with Don King. Could have been a totally different career. But I still think he'd eventually have gotten exposed by the Riddick Bowes and Lennox Lewises of the world. They just had such a physical advantage.

He was the most exciting boxer who ever lived though. Maybe who ever will live, and I agree, I feel bad for people who didn't get to see him.

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Posted by Hot Carl

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Posted on 5/26/16 at 12:55 am to Hot Carl

By the way, as boring as he was, I think you could make a strong argument that in his prime, Lennox Lewis was the best heavyweight of all time. Not the best career, but I think his best could beat anybody else's best. He was an efficient behemoth of a machine.

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Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa

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Posted on 5/26/16 at 1:00 am to Hot Carl

Teddy Atlas always said Tyson was a phony (granted Atlas had a rightful beef with Tyson after what Tyson did to his daughter) but Atlas predicted the Holy field ear bite...saying Holyfield owned Tyson in the first fight, "if Tyson is getting whooped early in the second fight he will do anything to get out of it...Tyson is a coward, he will find a way to DQ himself."

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