Mike Tyson still got it

quote:

---

Mike Tyson still got it

---

"It" was on full display when Tyson got KO'ed by 2 club fighters in McBride & Williams.

Love Mike T.

Tyson reminds me of a time when heavyweight fights were can't miss entertainment.

Nobody gives a shot anymore, but I miss the days when prizefights were events. They were Super Bowls.

lol. Are you saying you could go?

WAT

Theriouth.

quote:

---

lol. Are you saying you could go?

WAT

---

Where in my post did I say that? I said he quit like a dog vs a club fighter in McBride & got Koed by another in Willams. " It's" been gone.

Considering the excuses for the career failures of the beloved Iron Mike I should have expected a backlash:

1) Cus died
2) Jacobs died/ fired Cayton
3)Robin Givens & her mother are to blame
4)Rooney gone
5)Desiree Washington is to blame
6) Don King is to blame

I lose track.

'it' is the fact dude still swings fast enough to knock out a fly.

Dude, just stfu.

The legend of Mike Tyson is always going to be greater than Mike Tyson.

Recently re-watched the Lennox Lewis fight and here you have a world class boxer vs. a puncher.

And he was totally out-classed.

He hit lightening in a bottle at the lowest point of the HW division.

He paid off Lewis not to fight him in the late 80's...thought he could take Holyfield and lost badly in both fights in the 90's...so bad, he did everything in his power to get out of the fight by biting his ear - he wanted to be DQ'd instead of another humiliating loss.

Teddy Atlas said this...Tyson knows after the 1st round if he's going to win or lose a fight and will do anything to get out of that fight.

He said Tyson's greatest skill was intimidation. Once that was gone, so was his prowress as a heavyweight.

Other fighters were just far more skilled than him.

Watch the Douglas fight, the Lewis fight, the Holyfield fights...he just stands in front of them flat-footed waiting for a big upper-cut to land.

He didn't have money to hire great trainers?

Tyson was never a skilled fighter. He didn't spend 10 years in the gym. He was a nobody and then in 4 years he's HW champ with his big punch.

So he had nothing to fall back on - old training after he went to Prison. He rose too quickly against tomato cans without taking the hard licks or honing his skill.

Did you even see an effective Tyson jab?

His big skill in his early days was avoiding punches, his good chin and his massive upper-cut.

Then he got lazy and just relied on his good chin and waiting for that one knockout upper-cut.

The Lewis fight is embarrasing, it's like they don't even belong in the same ring.

True Tyson was past his prime but he looked super-fit and apparently had a year to train.

Tyson just never had the skills that other boxers do...plus he was short as frick.

There's a reason George Foreman could win the HW title during Tyson's years and over his peers. Foreman is a big man with a jab and also a power punch.

Foreman always said back in the 80's - he'd whip Tyson. That Tyson was all act against nobodies.

Well he might not have whipped Tyson but he did when the title again...at a far older age and far longer retirement than Tyson - when Tyson had the chance to regain the title after Prison.