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Mike Tyson

reviewed by slyfinger

slyfinger
01/15/2007

Mike Tyson 3

mike tyson is not the greatest heavy of all time.He is not even great.He never did what the greats of the past did.Never came back from the brink of being knocked out to win.he never showed the heart the great ones showed.Yes he could fight great and had great power but what would he do against the great heavys of the past if he could not knock them out in the first couple of rounds,he would loose.Marciano,Louis,Frazier,Ali,Dempsey,just to name a very few were the type of fighter that could dig deep into that special something that Tyson lacked.Thats why they are considered the greatest fighter of all time and Tyson should not be.I don't remember who said it but I quote "Joe Frazier is a mile wide and a mile deep,Mike tyson is a mile wide and an inch deep".Just thought I would mention im a big Tyson fan.He's the fighter I first started watching when I was 16 yrs old.

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nx_dobie commented 978 days ago.
You brought up a point that I hadn't considered and it is a very valid one at that. I think that Tyson ran through so many of his opponents early on that he was never challenged enough to know what having heart really felt like. So when it came time to fight Buster Douglas who, at that time was both determined and emotionally charged, his managers were quick to assume that because Tysons record looked better on paper, he was going to beat Buster which would prep him for a fight with Holyfield. A sparring session he had while in Japan foreshadowed the feelings he would go through the day he lost to Douglas; when he was knocked down in the sparring session, he looked at his new trainer with eyes that seemed to say "what do I do" and his trainer simply told him to get up. The idea of losing was so foreign to him that when his sparring partner pushed back against his ego, he didn't know how to respond. Against Douglas, he faced the same problem/emotions and didn't know how to respond to Buster's attacks. His manager at the time of the Tyson vs Michael Johnson made an astute prediction without knowing it the night of that fight. He said that there was an "excellent problem" with Mike in that he was incredibly powerful and skilled fighter, so much so that he would knock his opponents out in the first round which looks impressive but doesn't give him the experience that he needs; it gives him a skewed outlook on how fights might go in the future while giving his ego an aura of invincibility. I love the Tyson that used to be, I wish he hadn't grown up the way he did, and I wish Cus D'Amato was still alive so he could train me!
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