you not seen the size of Tyson now?

i thought there was already a boxing thread.

Tyson vs. Holyfield ? Oh no.

who has dug this topic up?

Can*t it be an elimnator and the winner fight Richard Dunn !!!!!

Mike Tyson.

2nd best Heavyweight of all time. Absolute Animal.

keep up la dunn got ko'd by henry cooper in the final eliminator last weekend!

Our" Enry it is then.

not so fast! just one more hurdle to go he has a warm up fight against terry marsh yet.

it will be a hard fight i.m.o as marsh will come out all guns blazing

You don't know much about boxing do you?

Tyson is probably the most exciting heavyweight of all time and in the top-ten but 2nd best? - no chance...

I agree he'd not be 2nd, but I'd go further than top 10 and say top 5.

[iMaybe [/iat his peak but I doubt it.

I just think his reputation was built off being fed loads of petrified stiffs by Don King.

Many people will point to Buster Douglas's victory over Tyson as the turning point but I believe it our own Frank Bruno who showed the vulnerability in Tyson's chin before Bruno retreated and got pummeled.

I just don't think Tyson would last even 2mins with the George Foreman that annihilated Frazier for example.

Plenty of fighters were paired with puddings at times, including the likes of Louis and Marciano. It's often the way boxers develop specific aspects of their style.

He quite probably wouldn't have lasted more than a few rounds with Foreman in his prime, but then who did? We'll never know though, and what you have to remember is that whilst as you say Tyson had his weakness exposed for others to exploit, Foreman quit as soon as Ali had shown everybody how it could be done. Maybe if he'd continued, 1or 2 others would have followed this up and he wouldn't still have such an aura of dominance for people to look back on.

For me, Ali is out on his own as number 1, and then you have a handful vying to be runners up, including Foreman, Louis, and Tyson. I really wish there was more footage of Jack Johnson too.

Fair points but I don't think we've ever seen Tyson in the trenches apart for when Holyfield smashed him all over the ring and the other contenders you've mentioned would not fold so easily which is why I think he's no more than top-ten.

1. every single world champion that has ever been are fed on fighters that are far less classy than them its fact. used to be known as "the bum of month club"

2. saying that foreman would beat tyson in 2mins is quite ridiculous tyson was far far quicker than foreman! foreman beat people that had no footwork and just stood infront of him going toe to toe