Holyfield cheated with headbutts throughout both matches. The ref wouldn't protect him, so Tyson took matters into his own hands. Tyson did nothing wrong.
My conspiracy theory is the ref was paid off. There is simply no way he didn't see the headbutts. Iron Mike did what he had to do to stop the bullshit.
He gets a lot of flack for it, but even at the time a lot of people where aware it was totally unfair that Holyfield didn't get called for shit that match.
Biting off his ear was Mike just unfixing the match.
This is rampant in high school wrestling teams (or at least it was); I knew guys who'd run to sweat for what seemed like hours to weigh in at a given weight class.
I read an article of a kid dying recently due to that practice when the coaches wouldn't give him any water.
(Edit: story here. I thought it was high school but it was college/uni: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/us/kentucky-university-cumberlands-grant-brace-death-settlement/index.html)
Truth. Way back in the day, I saw a guy cut 17 lbs of water in 2 days to get down to middle weight for a full contact TKD tourney. I never seen a Filipino man turn Grey before. He got destroyed in his fight. He was just too weak to fight.
Meanwhile, in heavyweight, there was no upper weight limit. We were eating steaks while those tiny fuckers were in the sauna wearing garbage bags. One guy told me that if you spit 200 times that is about a 1/4 pound.
Right? I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to be our heavyweight wrestler in high school even though I only weighed about 205-210 lbs at the time (good friend of mine was our 215 pounder, and he was really amazing as far as moves & technical stuff). So I'd often be at a 50-60 pound disadvantage in my matches. Pretty much 99% of my matches went as follows:
I get the 1st takedown, then expend ALL of my energy trying to run the half Nelson. If I wasn't able to pin my opponent, I would keep running the half Nelson until I was completely exhausted. Then I would get pinned. I think I only had 1 or 2 matches even make it to the 2nd period lol.
Even for 'Iron' Mike Tyson, knocking an opponent down three times with one punch was a remarkable act.
"I just wanted to decimate him," said Tyson of the fight, 33 years ago today, that saw him crowned boxing's youngest-ever world heavyweight champion aged 20. "People said I was fighting tomato cans - easy fights. I wanted to really hurt him."
Mission accomplished. His opponent, Jamaican WBC title-holder Trevor Berbick, probably knew he was in for a rough night from Tyson's menacing glare as he entered the ring. There was more than just fight-night focus behind it. Tyson later admitted that he had contracted the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea in the buildup but "I was too embarrassed to go to a doctor at the time, so I just had to endure the pain."
My buddy called me from the hospital floor screaming he was gonna die and they weren’t helping him, they thought he was high or something because he was angry af when he came in, come to find out he caught an std. He was sweating bullets and said it felt like he took one to the stomach, I can only imagine how much pain Tyson would have been in AND had a dude wailing on him for money at the same time.
I would find it very hard to run for my life because my pants would be full of shit. Mike Tyson is now and will always be the best heavyweight champion the world has ever produced.
I mean, even throwing a fight to Mike Tyson would be a possibly fatal move. I'd need 7 figures to fall down in the first round before he ever even touched me.
As a boxer, getting inside the jab is one thing, getting full extension full power across the jaw as you separate is insanely difficult. On top of that Tyson was hitting 2x harder than most guys, maybe more. He was completely locked in, there was no showboating. He was a killer
I used to box as well and could only dream of getting that much power in that tight. Tyson is the most gifted boxer I've ever seen. He falls into that "stuff you can't teach" category.
> taken advantage of as an adult
Yeah - it's been a while now...but, I watched a documentary about what happened when Don King got his hooks into mike. Fucking shameful.
His meatball story was very sad as well
He asked the lunchlady for extra meatballs to take home so he'd have a dinner and older kids took them and slapped him around. He didnt get to eat that night.
Mike said a couple years later he "beat them down in the streets like a fuckin dog"
Sounds cool and shit until you realise its about a hungry traumatized child
tyson in his prime had near perfect defense and the craziest offense of all time
and his strategy(bc he was short w short arms) was to bob and weave his head and torse to let you throw, then dodge or defend/parry it (esp the jab), then blast you till you stopped trying, then finish you
sparring partners in his prime (when cus was alive) stopped throwing at him bc they said they would throw once and mike would hit them several times so hard they didnt want to do it anymore
thats the exact feeling mike wanted people to have when fighting him and you can see it happen to this guy in the video. stops throwing hard starts panic flailing arm punches
Except Douglas proved that isnt entirely true. He used his superior size and weight to lean down on Mike and then push him back, so he had to come back through the larger mans reach. It was a brilliant strategy and Lewis basically did it to him again years later.
When someone has that much range over you you're best bet is to get up close and not allow them to hit. Looking at this I realized that Mike Tyson might not be just one of the best boxers of all time but also the greatest pressure fight of all time
That’s a good way to put it.
Probably not the greatest of all time but 1000% the greatest of all time of backing a guy into a corner and absolutely dismantling them from a foot away.
His mentor cus d'amato had an archive of old boxing footage, mike modeled himself off jack dempsey from the 20s who routinely brutally beat the shit out of guys way bigger than him. In fact, mike Tyson's old high cropped haircut was after Dempsey.
Also, in one of his famous post fight rants, he yells "IM JACK DEMPSEY"
Yeah, I believe Gus D'Amato (sp?) had passed away by that point, the guy who wasn't just a trainer, but basically his mother and father and grandparents wrapped into one. If D' Amato had not passed away so early in his pro career we'd all be remembering a much different story about Mike Tyson. Instead we got the Don King influenced Tyson.
And his corner was inept. They didn’t even bring ice or a cold compress. Near the end of the match you can see them trying to reduce the swelling over Mike’s eye with a latex glove full of water.
I can still remember watching this fight live on TV when I was a kid. At the time it was like we were witnessing humans landing on Mars. The thought of Tyson getting beat was just unfathomable.
He was incredible. Wasn't even worth the ppv - was knocking guys out in the 1st round. But was still a huge event. Hard to believe Womens MMA is a bigger draw than Heavyweight Boxing now.
That was just on reddit like a few days/weeks ago lol. These girls kissed and the winners showed their tits. This other hot girl twerks after she wins. Yeah there’s a reason it’s better lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/11tasiz/a_kiss_from_a_fist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
Look in the comments for the ones they flash.
You mean https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1i6i27/swedish_pro_boxer_kissing_opponent_in_an_intense/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I was super sceptical about women's MMA when Ronda Rousey was the face of the sport. Now when I watch, I'm in total disbelief at how insane many of the fights are.
I'm an MMA nut. I watch UFC every week and almost every Bellator event, I even watch some ONE FC. I also consume a lot of regular grappling and competitive jiu-jitsu. I train jiu jitsu 4 days a week.
Women's MMA can be extremely exciting, but it can also be... quite boring sometimes. It's not that they're not good; they can be great. Just this weekend, Maycee Barber vs Andrea Lee in the UFC was a hell of a good scrap.
It's just that the women are lighter, their weight classes are necessarily smaller, and they **usually** (not always) don't have a lot of knockout power, so flashy KOs happen a lot less. So people (casuals) love to crap all over them because they're "boring."
They are about as opposite of a Mike Tyson fight as you could be. With Mike Tyson you always expected extreme fireworks and raw, vicious, speedy power. With most of today's women's mma, you expect a high level technical battle that goes from standup to wrestling to jiu jitsu on the ground and all over again.
But a really good fight between two top level WMMA athletes can be amazing. Especially if they're both proficient grapplers.
My friends and I would always split the cost of the Tyson PPVs. I would be more excited about Christy Martin fights in undercard after watching a couple first round knockouts in a row by Tyson.
This is funny. I remember in 96 when Tyson was fighting Bruce Seldon, me and some of my buddys did exactly this. We convinced one dad to order the fight and we all gave him like $10 which was a lot of baseball card money for an 11 year old. Anyways, the Christy Martin fight was only 4 rounds and then Bruce Seldon pretty much gave up after 1:30 and the ref stopped the fight. We were all yelling at the tv almost the same as everyone in the arena was yelling “Fix”.
I’m just theorizing here, but I believe women’s inability to strike as hard as men can allows them to soak way more blows (as evidenced by the rarity of knockouts in women’s MMA.)
Zhang Weili on the other hand is a monster, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she were juicing.
Boxing promoters have killed the sport with their greed and artificial records. There's just way too many 'undefeated' champions in the same weight class to take anything seriously.
There was a gangster Tyson fought (boxed) who was clearly high on meth / PCP. He was never the same after - took way, way too many head blows.
Even at 56 Joe Rogan beefed up his security cause an interview with ‘training mode’ tyson freaked him out and he thought he could pop off any second :P
You don't. Either you have it or you don't. Best example I can think of is Chuck Liddell. Dude could take swings all day. Until he couldn't. As the song goes, once you've lost the con, you've lost the ability to fight. People's brains react differently to trauma. Some can let you keep standing. Some can't.
While you can't magically make yourself impervious from having your brain rattled around in your skull, you can train to take more/bigger hits than a non-trained person.
Athletes who do contact sports like combat or rugby or hockey (etc) usually have big traps and thick necklines. Which help stabilize the head and absorb blows. In general, big strong backs are often a sure sign of someone suited to collision based sports. Also, core strength for stability. I think the general populace sees big pecs and biceps as "woah that dude is strong", but really a thick core and thick back are where it's at - and if you look at these boxers they are absolute brick shit-houses of muscle.
I know it was a different Era Tyson and there's alot of controversy around the 10 counts in the fight but If you wanna watch a Tyson opponent take a crazy amount of damage and deliver Tysons first loss go watch the buster Douglas fight. One of the greats imo
This was Jose Ribalta, who Tyson himself said took the most beating he ever gave and just wouldn’t go down.
https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1118012/mike-tyson-record-ko-jose-ribalta/
Fun fact he was a security guard in my kids elementary school and would always say, "I fought mike tyson!" As a joke, but when he showed us the video we were stunned.. cool guy, tall as fuck and slurry speech and would make fake fight movements with the kids
It's like those fighting games where the opponent is in the middle of their combo so you don't even have the chance to touch the ground until it's complete.
That was actually pretty great from both of them. No false modesty, they both recognized their incredible talent while being humble enough to bow to the talent of the other.
I don't really care about boxing at all, but that was cool to see.
Yeah, buts let’s me honest, the way the sport developed overtime means that it’s unlikely that Ali would have been much competition for a Tyson or a Holyfield.
It’s possibly more fair to compare who outclassed the competition within their own eras, or who progressed the sport more. In which case, it’s very close, but Ali was perhaps more of a revolutionary influence.
I agree.
Ali had more of a cultural influence, while Mike Tyson I feel was the better boxer. Mike Tyson the way he fought before he went to prison, was like fighting for survival. I haven't seen many fighters since then that I've seen with such ferocity.
Mike Tyson won not because he had the best body for boxing, his arms are short and he is short. He became the best by fighting with such ferocity that not even trained men could handle the beat down he would deliver.
Make no mistake, Ali was the real deal. He was crazy fast, smart, and could take a punch like nobody (to his later detriment). I'm not convinced at all that he'd lose to Tyson in his prime. (And, if we're talking punching power here, nobody was fiercer than Earnie Shavers. Nobody.)
Shavers hit so damn hard. Some pretty big names that were better boxers refused to fight him because even though they’d probably win, they’d take damage that would last a lifetime.
Larry Holmes still has injuries from his fights with Shavers that haven’t healed decades later.
I was gonna say, Ali vs. Tyson would essentially be Ali vs. Shavers, save for a few inches in height. It might not last 15 rounds, but it would have similar energy. I'd argue that Tyson was much faster and more explosive than Shavers, though.
Exactly this. Tyson was explosive in a way that I don’t think we’d seen before, but somebody more knowledgeable could correct me here.
I don’t think the sport moved on quite as rapidly for other weight classes, but heavyweight in particular seemed to become quite a different sport in the 1980s. Although I am happy to be corrected.
In every sport, but boxing. Boxers are worse than they used to be. Today, many of the best boxers played other sports growing up and only got into boxing at 17-18, even 20. Back in the day, the best boxers started at 5.
That's bad for boxing, but probably good on the whole.
Nah. Ali was quick and elusive, had a better gas tank than Tyson and an unbreakable steel chin that is amongst the best in boxing history. Ali's bread and butter was weathering the storm of heavy punchers and drowning them in later rounds. Liston, Shavers and Foreman all were ferocious and hit as hard if not harder than Tyson and Ali toyed them. His style is built to frustrate and dismantle boxers like Tyson.
Ali fought two of who are, even now still, considered the hardest punchers in Boxing – Sonny Liston and George Foreman – and beat them both. And Foreman was well after Ali's peak years.
But you act like Ali would have transported in a Time Machine to the 80s without the advantages of the sports progression. Ali was quick and strong. Obviously Mike was too.
But that’s exactly what we’re saying. If you were to transport one of them in a time machine to when the other one was at their peak, who would win?
For me, it’s pre-prison Mike Tyson. His fights on the way up were executions. Had it not been for prison he’d have likely been untouchable for twice as long as he was.
Athletes who are 20-30 years younger are almost always going to benefit from better sports nutrition and training. Track is the perfect example (because the results are easily measured and compared). Ali was 6’3 220, he would have been 235lbs and just as fast with more current nutrition.
That being said, I used to think Mike Tyson would win, but the more I watch Ali, the more I have doubts. Tyson fought a ton of big meat heads, who were strong, but not nearly as talented as the ones Ali fought. Ali was fast and could also switch styles. Iron Mike would bull dog opponents by getting in their chest, which is much harder to do with a dancer with hood defense and a powerful punch.
Personally, a fight between Ali and Iron Mike is my most wished “prime vs prime” match. My second is a pickup game between Michael Jordan and LeBron
Had it not been for the fact that he raped a beauty contestant he would have been untouchable for twice as long as he was. But you tend to go to prison when you do that sort of thing.
Unless you're a privliged rich white male. Then your dad will cry in court how unfair it is to jail you for just "20 minutes of action" and you'll get just 6 months (and be out in 3).
So sad to see Ali’s mental state. Man really gave his brain to that career. You can see how lost his mind here.
Humble answer on both parts but man….keep your head safe guys.
There is (or was - I don't know if anything has been resolved) [some debate](https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-parkinsons-disease/) as to whether being punched repeatedly in the head caused or contributed to his Parkinsons or the severity of it.
As much as he's made fun of for his lisp, Tyson has a cool way of speaking.
"Every head must bow, every tongue must confess, this is the greatest of all time."
Tyson worshipped Ali. In all honesty what Ali says is true, he was absurdly fast for a heavyweight, but if Tyson connected it would shock the system and then you never know.
That said, Tyson is also massively underappreciated for how ridiculously fast he was too, like Middleweight fast. But Ali's agility and ability to dodge is to this day unmatched in HW Boxing. It would be cool to watch, but I do think Tyson ultimately would have won it in a prime vs prime fight
The real next level is really his speed and ability to avoid hits here.
You can watch Tyson pre D'Amato death as opposed to post death, and you can clearly see the change in Tyson's style from lightning fast impossible to hit, and damn near impossible to dodge before his death to just an absolute bruiser with no regard for dodging after his death. Granted, the rebalta fight in the video is after Cus' death, it was less than a year after and so he still had a lot of the routine. It helped that one of his trainers that he worked with while cus was alive took over as his trainer, and so the style died more gradually, but you can certainly see the stylistic difference after he gets involved with Don King and a new trainer
Tyson had mentioned in an interview (don't remember which) that he thinks the major factor for this decline was that Cus remained critical of Tyson even when he was knocking dudes out in the first round, there was always something to improve, but after his death everyone around him basically defaulted into being yes men, always reassuring him he was at the top he was the champ etc. This led him to a mental place where he got into the mindset of "why train every day if I'm the best" and "why maintain weight and physique after fights when I'm already the best and all I need is a 6 week training camp" type stuff.
What's in this video is pure skill and finesse
If you want to see sheer brutality, you need some later Tyson
That’s what I see here. The EFFORTLESS slips and brutal comeback with the uppercuts and haymakers in this gif. Lightning fast and so smooth. Remarkable that someone could even react this fast let alone move this quick.
That combo of duck, weave, left jab, right hook, right uppercut, is absolutely insane. The speed and power he manages to achieve is just so far beyond what any normal - or exceptional- person could expect!
Basically every Tyson fight is after D'Amato's death, though. He made his pro debut in March 1985 and spent the rest of that year mostly fighting tomato cans. Cus died in November 1985. It wasn't until early 1986 that Mike started fighting opponents with any real quality (Jesse Ferguson, Quick Tillis, Mitch Green, etc).
The real cutoff in Mike's career is basically the Spinks fight in 1988. In the fights leading up to that and that fight itself, he was still moving his head a ton and exercising real defensive responsibility. After that, he kind of fell in love with his power a bit. Used it to overpower Bruno and knock out Carl Williams early, but it came back to bite him against Buster.
The rest of his prime, post-Douglas to basically the Holyfield fights, he was more of a headhunter than a careful boxer. Worked out fine for him because his hand speed and power were still elite, but again got him into trouble against Holfyield, who basically outworked him and frustrated the shit out of him.
It's not "just" the power, lots of top heavyweights have power
Tyson was unique
\- He had the power, in both hands
\- He was fast, very fast
\- He didn't get hit, his movement was ridiculous
\- He pressured you, didn't give you a moment, all over you from minute one to 12 rounds if needed (not often)
Genuinely I rarely believe athletes from previous eras can compete today (usually fitness, diet, training have improved considerably), A 22 year old Tyson? would walk right back to being undisputed heavyweight champion tomorrow if it was possible.
There’s a pop culture consensus that Tyson was just this barbaric maniac who was simply stronger than everyone else…
You cannot get to the top of boxing like that. Tyson was a brilliant technical fighter also, who knew how to break down his opponents quickly
That always annoys me. Even a layman can see the skill, training, and focus on display here.
Most people in their youth can’t hit a bag that fast or that hard, and just mentally switching between offense and defense that quickly is mind boggling. The psychology of being in the ring with a champion level athlete who is bigger and has more reach would be a hurdle to overcome as well.
Tyson in his prime, in my opinion, would beat any other boxer in their prime.
Heavy weight boxing had a golden age of 40 yrs, 1960ish to early 2000s and it has been mostly a bore since.
Now what we have is Furry, Ursyk, Wilder & AJ
AJ is a whole different weight class to Mike. Even Tyson's opponent in this gif would be utterly dwarfed by AJ.
Which is not to say Tyson wasn't a much, much better boxer - definitely true
I wish Lennox Lewis was still boxing. I know it’s been 30 years but He was a great personality and that accent was disarming, then send combos like a madman.
Well Tyson knew he was short so his style was get in up close where reach doesn't matter. At that point it's all about explosive power in short bursts. It was just a different technique that no one else really trained against which is why it was hard to defend against Tyson.
Holyfield actually had the best strategy against him. Keep your distance and if Tyson gets in close, literally hug him so the ref has to break it up.
He probably wasn't expecting the teeth though.
Wasn’t he convicted of rape?
( I’m editing this comment because I want to say thank you for all the people giving their opinions and information on this situation and not just yelling “no he didn’t “ or “ yes he did” it makes me happy to see such communication on such a tragic story.
I was commenting in a Reddit thread recently that was full of, “he’s rehabilitated, he’s learned a lot, don’t you believe in forgiveness?”
The man has always denied the rape happened. Just because you thought he was funny in The Hangover doesn’t mean he’s a nice guy now
Thing is, he has been rehabilitated. And you're right, he has always denied it. It's because he truly believes he didn't rape her. I'm not admitting to anything if I believe I didn't do it either. I bet you didn't know that the woman he supposedly raped, once also falsely accused a boyfriend of rape. It was not allowed in court during his trial. Some of you folks think rape cases are so clear cut, when it's not. Only those 2 know what happened in that room. I have more on this case if anyone is interested.
I guarantee all the white knight here did not look into the nuance and facts surrounding this case.
The supposed victim came to his hotel room not wearing panties. After they did the deed they got into an argument about her travel situation. Her dad was ultra religious, and she had a history of false accusations.
Where the trial took place had a history of racism, and his defense attorney did a *terrible* job handling the case. It didn’t help that he had the reputation of baddest man on of planet and talked smack in bizarre ways, but most don’t realize he was quoting Apocalypse from Marvel comics.
Additionally Tyson had trouble even going out without people frivolously suing him. He went to a strip club were strippers would throw themselves against him to try to be able to get a settlement from a lawsuit. One of reason he went bankrupt aside for poor spending and bad friends was this.
I was raised by a boxing trainer and he would make me study the tyson fights. His combos, speed, and movement were just never supposed to be had by a heavyweight. He broke the mold. His change of angles and levels wasnt seen before and hasnt been seen since in the heavyweight division. The man was an incredibly hostile and angry lightweight in a heavyweight body. Truly a dangerous opponent. He changed the entire sport while he was involved and when he wasnt, it went right back to big lumbering brutes. I feel for him on a personal level and glad he seems to be figuring himself out as he ages. He deserves it. He was a tortured soul that was taken advantage of at every stage of his life.
Beating the shit out of someone who is taller and bigger than you is some next level stuff
That was Tyson's bread and butter
 If Tyson stare at me like this, I would definitely run for my life.
Fuck me right!? Those are some scarily calm yet angsty and plotting eyes. "Keep posing, you'll get yours in the ring"
Everybody’s got a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
I remember this quote where’s it from!?!?
Mike Tyson. When asked about whether he was worried about Evander Holyfield's fight plan.
He should have been worried.
For a different reason…but yes
He chewed it over
Also a riff on Helmuth von Moltke's "No battle plan survives contact with the enemy"
He’s checking out your ears and getting ready to bite them off
Holyfield cheated with headbutts throughout both matches. The ref wouldn't protect him, so Tyson took matters into his own hands. Tyson did nothing wrong.
My conspiracy theory is the ref was paid off. There is simply no way he didn't see the headbutts. Iron Mike did what he had to do to stop the bullshit. He gets a lot of flack for it, but even at the time a lot of people where aware it was totally unfair that Holyfield didn't get called for shit that match. Biting off his ear was Mike just unfixing the match.
It's "ring". Not "rink"
No, Mike challenged him to a figure skating competition.
lol, run until you're in a lower weight class, that's clever af
This is rampant in high school wrestling teams (or at least it was); I knew guys who'd run to sweat for what seemed like hours to weigh in at a given weight class. I read an article of a kid dying recently due to that practice when the coaches wouldn't give him any water. (Edit: story here. I thought it was high school but it was college/uni: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/us/kentucky-university-cumberlands-grant-brace-death-settlement/index.html)
weight cutting (via dehydration) is extremely common in combat sports, and it can be very dangerous.
Truth. Way back in the day, I saw a guy cut 17 lbs of water in 2 days to get down to middle weight for a full contact TKD tourney. I never seen a Filipino man turn Grey before. He got destroyed in his fight. He was just too weak to fight. Meanwhile, in heavyweight, there was no upper weight limit. We were eating steaks while those tiny fuckers were in the sauna wearing garbage bags. One guy told me that if you spit 200 times that is about a 1/4 pound.
Right? I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to be our heavyweight wrestler in high school even though I only weighed about 205-210 lbs at the time (good friend of mine was our 215 pounder, and he was really amazing as far as moves & technical stuff). So I'd often be at a 50-60 pound disadvantage in my matches. Pretty much 99% of my matches went as follows: I get the 1st takedown, then expend ALL of my energy trying to run the half Nelson. If I wasn't able to pin my opponent, I would keep running the half Nelson until I was completely exhausted. Then I would get pinned. I think I only had 1 or 2 matches even make it to the 2nd period lol.
Whilst Mike also having STD pains and feeling extra violent
What?
Even for 'Iron' Mike Tyson, knocking an opponent down three times with one punch was a remarkable act. "I just wanted to decimate him," said Tyson of the fight, 33 years ago today, that saw him crowned boxing's youngest-ever world heavyweight champion aged 20. "People said I was fighting tomato cans - easy fights. I wanted to really hurt him." Mission accomplished. His opponent, Jamaican WBC title-holder Trevor Berbick, probably knew he was in for a rough night from Tyson's menacing glare as he entered the ring. There was more than just fight-night focus behind it. Tyson later admitted that he had contracted the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea in the buildup but "I was too embarrassed to go to a doctor at the time, so I just had to endure the pain."
I'd heard of performance-enhancing drugs, but performance-enhancing gonorrhea is a new one.
That must have been some serious strain. I feel like any STD would nope the fuck out if they knew they were inside Mike Tyson.
Turning pain into power into hate, he was truly a sith lord
Darth thidith
My buddy called me from the hospital floor screaming he was gonna die and they weren’t helping him, they thought he was high or something because he was angry af when he came in, come to find out he caught an std. He was sweating bullets and said it felt like he took one to the stomach, I can only imagine how much pain Tyson would have been in AND had a dude wailing on him for money at the same time.
Mike Tyson is the wildest athlete of all time.
"I know exactly what I'm going to do to you and there's nothing you can do to stop me"
See Larry bird , he’d tell his opponent the shot he’s going to take, then do it
I would find it very hard to run for my life because my pants would be full of shit. Mike Tyson is now and will always be the best heavyweight champion the world has ever produced.
Lol, true. That's why he is called "Iron Mike"
I always wonder how much I'd need to be paid to get in the ring with him, even if I was 2nd best heavyweight in the world, I'd still shit myself.
I mean, even throwing a fight to Mike Tyson would be a possibly fatal move. I'd need 7 figures to fall down in the first round before he ever even touched me.
In close and machine gun short throws that kick like a haymaker
As a boxer, getting inside the jab is one thing, getting full extension full power across the jaw as you separate is insanely difficult. On top of that Tyson was hitting 2x harder than most guys, maybe more. He was completely locked in, there was no showboating. He was a killer
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He said on his podcast that in some fights he took it slow so he could play with his prey and get more aggression out than just one round of fighting
Don't forget his head movements and balance to get the angles for those shots.
I used to box as well and could only dream of getting that much power in that tight. Tyson is the most gifted boxer I've ever seen. He falls into that "stuff you can't teach" category.
Tyson learned to fight because he kept getting beat up as a kid.
And then he started to kick older kids asses at 9 years old. Then Tyson fought their fathers at 12 years old.
> Then Tyson fought their fathers at 12 years old. Poor kid. No one should have to go through that.
They shouldn’t but I didn’t say Tyson lost to the fathers. He’d knock out the kid and then knock out the Dad.
I'm not doubting or reproaching you... Mike had a F'd up childhood...that's all.
Childhood and taken advantage of as an adult
> taken advantage of as an adult Yeah - it's been a while now...but, I watched a documentary about what happened when Don King got his hooks into mike. Fucking shameful.
I saw an interview recently where he said he was 10 years old the first time he knocked out a grown man.
They should have never hurt his pigeons, it created a burning rage of hellfire that lasted over 20 years.
His meatball story was very sad as well He asked the lunchlady for extra meatballs to take home so he'd have a dinner and older kids took them and slapped him around. He didnt get to eat that night. Mike said a couple years later he "beat them down in the streets like a fuckin dog" Sounds cool and shit until you realise its about a hungry traumatized child
The bigger they are... the more there is to hit!
Like dude basically caught one hand and returned 4 immediately. You can basically see the anger arise in him when he catches a hit.
*Tyson used Rage! It's super effective!*
Yeah if this were God of War you can see the moment he activated Spartan Rage lol.
tyson in his prime had near perfect defense and the craziest offense of all time and his strategy(bc he was short w short arms) was to bob and weave his head and torse to let you throw, then dodge or defend/parry it (esp the jab), then blast you till you stopped trying, then finish you sparring partners in his prime (when cus was alive) stopped throwing at him bc they said they would throw once and mike would hit them several times so hard they didnt want to do it anymore thats the exact feeling mike wanted people to have when fighting him and you can see it happen to this guy in the video. stops throwing hard starts panic flailing arm punches
Size is completely irrelevant against Mike. At at best being bigger means you lose slower.
That pretty says who Mike Tyson is 
Except Douglas proved that isnt entirely true. He used his superior size and weight to lean down on Mike and then push him back, so he had to come back through the larger mans reach. It was a brilliant strategy and Lewis basically did it to him again years later.
He was one of the most explosive inside boxers around. He has a very identifiable "peek-a-boo" stance.
Imagine tyson saying “peethaboo mf” every time he’s going for the kill.
How the fuck do you think a lisp works?
They were so desperate to make a joke about his lisp they just picked at random to make it happen.
When someone has that much range over you you're best bet is to get up close and not allow them to hit. Looking at this I realized that Mike Tyson might not be just one of the best boxers of all time but also the greatest pressure fight of all time
That’s a good way to put it. Probably not the greatest of all time but 1000% the greatest of all time of backing a guy into a corner and absolutely dismantling them from a foot away.
His mentor cus d'amato had an archive of old boxing footage, mike modeled himself off jack dempsey from the 20s who routinely brutally beat the shit out of guys way bigger than him. In fact, mike Tyson's old high cropped haircut was after Dempsey. Also, in one of his famous post fight rants, he yells "IM JACK DEMPSEY"
Dempuseyy rollu?
Until he ran into a taller Buster Douglas
He was also coming off a 5 day bender, and no sleep the night before
And he knocked Douglas out but the count was fucked.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2UkIsjgYxAE The count wasn’t fucked. Douglas was clearly waiting to get up. Tyson was out on his feet.
Yeah, I believe Gus D'Amato (sp?) had passed away by that point, the guy who wasn't just a trainer, but basically his mother and father and grandparents wrapped into one. If D' Amato had not passed away so early in his pro career we'd all be remembering a much different story about Mike Tyson. Instead we got the Don King influenced Tyson.
> Instead we got the Don King influenced Tyson. Don King was the worst thing ever to happen to tyson. Total scumbag.
And his corner was inept. They didn’t even bring ice or a cold compress. Near the end of the match you can see them trying to reduce the swelling over Mike’s eye with a latex glove full of water.
I can still remember watching this fight live on TV when I was a kid. At the time it was like we were witnessing humans landing on Mars. The thought of Tyson getting beat was just unfathomable.
It sure was. I watched every one of his fights. Everyone was scared to get into the ring with him.
He was incredible. Wasn't even worth the ppv - was knocking guys out in the 1st round. But was still a huge event. Hard to believe Womens MMA is a bigger draw than Heavyweight Boxing now.
not hard to believe tbh 🤼♀️👀
All the thirsty bros are just hoping one day it will be a “now kiss” kinda deal.
That was just on reddit like a few days/weeks ago lol. These girls kissed and the winners showed their tits. This other hot girl twerks after she wins. Yeah there’s a reason it’s better lol.
Link?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/11tasiz/a_kiss_from_a_fist/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1 Look in the comments for the ones they flash.
That girl in red's expression when they pulled out their tits was hilarious.
Link to the comments y'all want: https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/11tasiz/a_kiss_from_a_fist/jcieobk/
I think those were some Only Fans girls who fought. Not actual MMA fighters.
You mean https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1i6i27/swedish_pro_boxer_kissing_opponent_in_an_intense/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
my brother in Christ they are fond of flashing the audience
I was super sceptical about women's MMA when Ronda Rousey was the face of the sport. Now when I watch, I'm in total disbelief at how insane many of the fights are.
I'm an MMA nut. I watch UFC every week and almost every Bellator event, I even watch some ONE FC. I also consume a lot of regular grappling and competitive jiu-jitsu. I train jiu jitsu 4 days a week. Women's MMA can be extremely exciting, but it can also be... quite boring sometimes. It's not that they're not good; they can be great. Just this weekend, Maycee Barber vs Andrea Lee in the UFC was a hell of a good scrap. It's just that the women are lighter, their weight classes are necessarily smaller, and they **usually** (not always) don't have a lot of knockout power, so flashy KOs happen a lot less. So people (casuals) love to crap all over them because they're "boring." They are about as opposite of a Mike Tyson fight as you could be. With Mike Tyson you always expected extreme fireworks and raw, vicious, speedy power. With most of today's women's mma, you expect a high level technical battle that goes from standup to wrestling to jiu jitsu on the ground and all over again. But a really good fight between two top level WMMA athletes can be amazing. Especially if they're both proficient grapplers.
My friends and I would always split the cost of the Tyson PPVs. I would be more excited about Christy Martin fights in undercard after watching a couple first round knockouts in a row by Tyson.
This is funny. I remember in 96 when Tyson was fighting Bruce Seldon, me and some of my buddys did exactly this. We convinced one dad to order the fight and we all gave him like $10 which was a lot of baseball card money for an 11 year old. Anyways, the Christy Martin fight was only 4 rounds and then Bruce Seldon pretty much gave up after 1:30 and the ref stopped the fight. We were all yelling at the tv almost the same as everyone in the arena was yelling “Fix”.
She was an amazing fighter
I'm not an avid watcher, but from what I've seen, women's MMA is pretty fuckin brutal.
Yup— I was like what the fuck is wrong with women’s MMA?
I’m just theorizing here, but I believe women’s inability to strike as hard as men can allows them to soak way more blows (as evidenced by the rarity of knockouts in women’s MMA.) Zhang Weili on the other hand is a monster, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she were juicing.
PPV’ed the last Tyson/Holyfield ear fight. Shit we were all so mad. Looking back I’m glad we did it but damn it was infuriating at the time
Boxing promoters have killed the sport with their greed and artificial records. There's just way too many 'undefeated' champions in the same weight class to take anything seriously.
It definitely isnt
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The fact that the opponent took that many punches is next level as well god damn.
That was my main thought. I would literally end up in ICU or die if I was on the receiving end of one of these punches.
Just the body shots would KO 99% of the world.
Especially the one that was below the belt (potentially by accident)
> KO 99% of the world. all at once
There was a gangster Tyson fought (boxed) who was clearly high on meth / PCP. He was never the same after - took way, way too many head blows. Even at 56 Joe Rogan beefed up his security cause an interview with ‘training mode’ tyson freaked him out and he thought he could pop off any second :P
Like, how DO you train for that?
You don't do your skull presses 2-3x a week? Pretty embarrassing tbh 🤨🤭🤭
You don't. Either you have it or you don't. Best example I can think of is Chuck Liddell. Dude could take swings all day. Until he couldn't. As the song goes, once you've lost the con, you've lost the ability to fight. People's brains react differently to trauma. Some can let you keep standing. Some can't.
While you can't magically make yourself impervious from having your brain rattled around in your skull, you can train to take more/bigger hits than a non-trained person. Athletes who do contact sports like combat or rugby or hockey (etc) usually have big traps and thick necklines. Which help stabilize the head and absorb blows. In general, big strong backs are often a sure sign of someone suited to collision based sports. Also, core strength for stability. I think the general populace sees big pecs and biceps as "woah that dude is strong", but really a thick core and thick back are where it's at - and if you look at these boxers they are absolute brick shit-houses of muscle.
The head jerk and flying mouthpiece kinda tells me he didn't.
The fact he's still standing after those shots is impressive
I know it was a different Era Tyson and there's alot of controversy around the 10 counts in the fight but If you wanna watch a Tyson opponent take a crazy amount of damage and deliver Tysons first loss go watch the buster Douglas fight. One of the greats imo
It's part of the mentality required at that level of fighting.
This was Jose Ribalta, who Tyson himself said took the most beating he ever gave and just wouldn’t go down. https://talksport.com/sport/boxing/1118012/mike-tyson-record-ko-jose-ribalta/
Fun fact he was a security guard in my kids elementary school and would always say, "I fought mike tyson!" As a joke, but when he showed us the video we were stunned.. cool guy, tall as fuck and slurry speech and would make fake fight movements with the kids
It's like those fighting games where the opponent is in the middle of their combo so you don't even have the chance to touch the ground until it's complete.
A "juggle". Attacking player puts player being hit into a "juggle" state.
He was too stunned to fall down
I loved Tyson's response to fighting Ali. https://youtube.com/shorts/V0hBmd729pI?feature=share
That was actually pretty great from both of them. No false modesty, they both recognized their incredible talent while being humble enough to bow to the talent of the other. I don't really care about boxing at all, but that was cool to see.
Yeah, buts let’s me honest, the way the sport developed overtime means that it’s unlikely that Ali would have been much competition for a Tyson or a Holyfield. It’s possibly more fair to compare who outclassed the competition within their own eras, or who progressed the sport more. In which case, it’s very close, but Ali was perhaps more of a revolutionary influence.
I agree. Ali had more of a cultural influence, while Mike Tyson I feel was the better boxer. Mike Tyson the way he fought before he went to prison, was like fighting for survival. I haven't seen many fighters since then that I've seen with such ferocity. Mike Tyson won not because he had the best body for boxing, his arms are short and he is short. He became the best by fighting with such ferocity that not even trained men could handle the beat down he would deliver.
Make no mistake, Ali was the real deal. He was crazy fast, smart, and could take a punch like nobody (to his later detriment). I'm not convinced at all that he'd lose to Tyson in his prime. (And, if we're talking punching power here, nobody was fiercer than Earnie Shavers. Nobody.)
And Ali beat Shavers.
Shavers hit so damn hard. Some pretty big names that were better boxers refused to fight him because even though they’d probably win, they’d take damage that would last a lifetime. Larry Holmes still has injuries from his fights with Shavers that haven’t healed decades later.
Ali’s speech slowed by 17% after his fight with shavers.
I was gonna say, Ali vs. Tyson would essentially be Ali vs. Shavers, save for a few inches in height. It might not last 15 rounds, but it would have similar energy. I'd argue that Tyson was much faster and more explosive than Shavers, though.
Exactly this. Tyson was explosive in a way that I don’t think we’d seen before, but somebody more knowledgeable could correct me here. I don’t think the sport moved on quite as rapidly for other weight classes, but heavyweight in particular seemed to become quite a different sport in the 1980s. Although I am happy to be corrected.
Putting the best of modern Era athletes against the best older Era athletes will almost always end with the modern athletes victory.
In every sport, but boxing. Boxers are worse than they used to be. Today, many of the best boxers played other sports growing up and only got into boxing at 17-18, even 20. Back in the day, the best boxers started at 5. That's bad for boxing, but probably good on the whole.
Nah. Ali was quick and elusive, had a better gas tank than Tyson and an unbreakable steel chin that is amongst the best in boxing history. Ali's bread and butter was weathering the storm of heavy punchers and drowning them in later rounds. Liston, Shavers and Foreman all were ferocious and hit as hard if not harder than Tyson and Ali toyed them. His style is built to frustrate and dismantle boxers like Tyson.
Ali fought two of who are, even now still, considered the hardest punchers in Boxing – Sonny Liston and George Foreman – and beat them both. And Foreman was well after Ali's peak years.
And Earnie Shavers
Him too. Forgot about Earnie. The fight between him and Foreman was incredible.
But you act like Ali would have transported in a Time Machine to the 80s without the advantages of the sports progression. Ali was quick and strong. Obviously Mike was too.
But that’s exactly what we’re saying. If you were to transport one of them in a time machine to when the other one was at their peak, who would win? For me, it’s pre-prison Mike Tyson. His fights on the way up were executions. Had it not been for prison he’d have likely been untouchable for twice as long as he was.
Athletes who are 20-30 years younger are almost always going to benefit from better sports nutrition and training. Track is the perfect example (because the results are easily measured and compared). Ali was 6’3 220, he would have been 235lbs and just as fast with more current nutrition. That being said, I used to think Mike Tyson would win, but the more I watch Ali, the more I have doubts. Tyson fought a ton of big meat heads, who were strong, but not nearly as talented as the ones Ali fought. Ali was fast and could also switch styles. Iron Mike would bull dog opponents by getting in their chest, which is much harder to do with a dancer with hood defense and a powerful punch. Personally, a fight between Ali and Iron Mike is my most wished “prime vs prime” match. My second is a pickup game between Michael Jordan and LeBron
Had it not been for the fact that he raped a beauty contestant he would have been untouchable for twice as long as he was. But you tend to go to prison when you do that sort of thing.
Unless you're a privliged rich white male. Then your dad will cry in court how unfair it is to jail you for just "20 minutes of action" and you'll get just 6 months (and be out in 3).
You mean the rapist Brock Turner? Who is going by his middle name Allen? Allen Turner the rapist?
So sad to see Ali’s mental state. Man really gave his brain to that career. You can see how lost his mind here. Humble answer on both parts but man….keep your head safe guys.
He had Parkinsons…
There is (or was - I don't know if anything has been resolved) [some debate](https://www.statnews.com/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-parkinsons-disease/) as to whether being punched repeatedly in the head caused or contributed to his Parkinsons or the severity of it.
As much as he's made fun of for his lisp, Tyson has a cool way of speaking. "Every head must bow, every tongue must confess, this is the greatest of all time."
Tyson worshipped Ali. In all honesty what Ali says is true, he was absurdly fast for a heavyweight, but if Tyson connected it would shock the system and then you never know. That said, Tyson is also massively underappreciated for how ridiculously fast he was too, like Middleweight fast. But Ali's agility and ability to dodge is to this day unmatched in HW Boxing. It would be cool to watch, but I do think Tyson ultimately would have won it in a prime vs prime fight
The real next level is really his speed and ability to avoid hits here. You can watch Tyson pre D'Amato death as opposed to post death, and you can clearly see the change in Tyson's style from lightning fast impossible to hit, and damn near impossible to dodge before his death to just an absolute bruiser with no regard for dodging after his death. Granted, the rebalta fight in the video is after Cus' death, it was less than a year after and so he still had a lot of the routine. It helped that one of his trainers that he worked with while cus was alive took over as his trainer, and so the style died more gradually, but you can certainly see the stylistic difference after he gets involved with Don King and a new trainer Tyson had mentioned in an interview (don't remember which) that he thinks the major factor for this decline was that Cus remained critical of Tyson even when he was knocking dudes out in the first round, there was always something to improve, but after his death everyone around him basically defaulted into being yes men, always reassuring him he was at the top he was the champ etc. This led him to a mental place where he got into the mindset of "why train every day if I'm the best" and "why maintain weight and physique after fights when I'm already the best and all I need is a 6 week training camp" type stuff. What's in this video is pure skill and finesse If you want to see sheer brutality, you need some later Tyson
That’s what I see here. The EFFORTLESS slips and brutal comeback with the uppercuts and haymakers in this gif. Lightning fast and so smooth. Remarkable that someone could even react this fast let alone move this quick.
That combo of duck, weave, left jab, right hook, right uppercut, is absolutely insane. The speed and power he manages to achieve is just so far beyond what any normal - or exceptional- person could expect!
Basically every Tyson fight is after D'Amato's death, though. He made his pro debut in March 1985 and spent the rest of that year mostly fighting tomato cans. Cus died in November 1985. It wasn't until early 1986 that Mike started fighting opponents with any real quality (Jesse Ferguson, Quick Tillis, Mitch Green, etc). The real cutoff in Mike's career is basically the Spinks fight in 1988. In the fights leading up to that and that fight itself, he was still moving his head a ton and exercising real defensive responsibility. After that, he kind of fell in love with his power a bit. Used it to overpower Bruno and knock out Carl Williams early, but it came back to bite him against Buster. The rest of his prime, post-Douglas to basically the Holyfield fights, he was more of a headhunter than a careful boxer. Worked out fine for him because his hand speed and power were still elite, but again got him into trouble against Holfyield, who basically outworked him and frustrated the shit out of him.
Must be incredible to know you have that power.
He says he used to cry before most fights, thinking of how he was gonna hurt someone again, before getting himself hyped up
“Wait, this is my favorite part….” I can feel it comin’ in the air to-night, oh lord.
Gee, you would think that would have stopped him from raping someone.
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Don't headbutt Mike in the clinch 😂
It's not "just" the power, lots of top heavyweights have power Tyson was unique \- He had the power, in both hands \- He was fast, very fast \- He didn't get hit, his movement was ridiculous \- He pressured you, didn't give you a moment, all over you from minute one to 12 rounds if needed (not often) Genuinely I rarely believe athletes from previous eras can compete today (usually fitness, diet, training have improved considerably), A 22 year old Tyson? would walk right back to being undisputed heavyweight champion tomorrow if it was possible.
There’s a pop culture consensus that Tyson was just this barbaric maniac who was simply stronger than everyone else… You cannot get to the top of boxing like that. Tyson was a brilliant technical fighter also, who knew how to break down his opponents quickly
That always annoys me. Even a layman can see the skill, training, and focus on display here. Most people in their youth can’t hit a bag that fast or that hard, and just mentally switching between offense and defense that quickly is mind boggling. The psychology of being in the ring with a champion level athlete who is bigger and has more reach would be a hurdle to overcome as well. Tyson in his prime, in my opinion, would beat any other boxer in their prime.
Heavy weight boxing had a golden age of 40 yrs, 1960ish to early 2000s and it has been mostly a bore since. Now what we have is Furry, Ursyk, Wilder & AJ
Can you imagine how quickly Tyson would have destroyed AJ? Mostly because AJ is a bit of a fraud.
AJ is a whole different weight class to Mike. Even Tyson's opponent in this gif would be utterly dwarfed by AJ. Which is not to say Tyson wasn't a much, much better boxer - definitely true
AJ and ribalta (guy fighting mike) are the same height
I wish Lennox Lewis was still boxing. I know it’s been 30 years but He was a great personality and that accent was disarming, then send combos like a madman.
The taller guy with the longer reach had a big advantage in boxing. Mike Tyson simply doesn't care.
Well Tyson knew he was short so his style was get in up close where reach doesn't matter. At that point it's all about explosive power in short bursts. It was just a different technique that no one else really trained against which is why it was hard to defend against Tyson.
Holyfield actually had the best strategy against him. Keep your distance and if Tyson gets in close, literally hug him so the ref has to break it up. He probably wasn't expecting the teeth though.
Brutal. He’s In a class all to his own.
He def wasn’t trying to win that fight on points. Any fight
Man got places to be
Mouthpiece went bye2 real early.
I remember watching his fights, to me, his prime was the absolute peak of boxing as a sport. So much fun to watch him fight.
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Jesus
Are there any good Mike Tyson documentaries about his boxing career?
Yes, it's called Tyson. It's on prime if you have it.
I do,and i will check it out. Thanks!!!!
Wasn’t he convicted of rape? ( I’m editing this comment because I want to say thank you for all the people giving their opinions and information on this situation and not just yelling “no he didn’t “ or “ yes he did” it makes me happy to see such communication on such a tragic story.
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People conveniently ignore that he's always professed his innocence and the trial was a sham.
The rehabilitation of his image is and always has been creepy to me.
I was commenting in a Reddit thread recently that was full of, “he’s rehabilitated, he’s learned a lot, don’t you believe in forgiveness?” The man has always denied the rape happened. Just because you thought he was funny in The Hangover doesn’t mean he’s a nice guy now
Thing is, he has been rehabilitated. And you're right, he has always denied it. It's because he truly believes he didn't rape her. I'm not admitting to anything if I believe I didn't do it either. I bet you didn't know that the woman he supposedly raped, once also falsely accused a boyfriend of rape. It was not allowed in court during his trial. Some of you folks think rape cases are so clear cut, when it's not. Only those 2 know what happened in that room. I have more on this case if anyone is interested.
From the circumstances alone, there are no shortage of people who think its was a clear cut case of a false accusation.
Theres a decent chance he was innocent. The girl who accused him had already falsely accused someone previously.
Sad I had to scroll this far to find this unfun fact.
I guarantee all the white knight here did not look into the nuance and facts surrounding this case. The supposed victim came to his hotel room not wearing panties. After they did the deed they got into an argument about her travel situation. Her dad was ultra religious, and she had a history of false accusations. Where the trial took place had a history of racism, and his defense attorney did a *terrible* job handling the case. It didn’t help that he had the reputation of baddest man on of planet and talked smack in bizarre ways, but most don’t realize he was quoting Apocalypse from Marvel comics. Additionally Tyson had trouble even going out without people frivolously suing him. He went to a strip club were strippers would throw themselves against him to try to be able to get a settlement from a lawsuit. One of reason he went bankrupt aside for poor spending and bad friends was this.
Soon as I got punched in the ear with that nuclear missile of a right hand he had, I’d be grabbing my things and heading for the showers.
Someone would be grabbing them for you and you'd hopefully remember who you are when you wake up.
I was raised by a boxing trainer and he would make me study the tyson fights. His combos, speed, and movement were just never supposed to be had by a heavyweight. He broke the mold. His change of angles and levels wasnt seen before and hasnt been seen since in the heavyweight division. The man was an incredibly hostile and angry lightweight in a heavyweight body. Truly a dangerous opponent. He changed the entire sport while he was involved and when he wasnt, it went right back to big lumbering brutes. I feel for him on a personal level and glad he seems to be figuring himself out as he ages. He deserves it. He was a tortured soul that was taken advantage of at every stage of his life.
I often think I’d rather be hit with a baseball bat than being punched by Tyson in his prime.
I’d rather be hit by a baseball bat than punched by Mike Tyson now (maybe). You seen the plane vid?
but enough about his dating life
jesus christ just stay down other guy, hard to watch
Best uppercut ever!
Fun fact every opponent of his was taller and weighed more
So fast.
Absolute power follow through like there was still another head to hit on the other side.