re: How does Mike Tyson stack up with all time heavyweights?

I have a lot of nostalgia as I was a huge Tyson fan, but objectively he dominated for a short run against a pretty meh heavy weight division. But fir a few years he looked unhuman

Everyone remembers the question. “ if I gave you a million dollars would you get in the ring a Tyson?” No one asked that about others. You thought you may be killed

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Nope. Ali and Foreman would have handled him.

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Even early on Tyson had trouble with big fighters but I don't it was size specifically, I think it was that the big guys were better able to withstand that early onslaught and Tyson just couldn't maintain that same intensity into the later rounds. I think prime Foreman would be a definite favorite but you can never count out a puncher. But I've got no idea how prime Tyson vs. prime Ali would have gone. Young Ali had freakish speed in hand andbody movement. And he was tougher than anybody. But Frazier gave him hell with the constant pressing, a la Marciano. Frazier and Tyson both a big Marciano influence in their styles. Frazier had that magic left hook, too. Generally when a fighter starts throwing a lot of hooks it means their legs are gone and they're about to go down. But there's a tiny number who can slip an ugly, lazy-looking off-hand hook right in there and land it all day. Frazier definitely had Ali's number but he also fought Foreman twice and it looked like child abuse both times.

Not in the Top 10