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03-09-2023 12:41 PM |
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Originally Posted by Coochie liquor
(Post 16844856)
I’m not denying Mike was a machine. His fights were must see TV, and I paid a pretty penny to watch a couple of his pretty short fights. But Fury is HUGE. He just toys with a lot of the guys he fights. Could be recency bias on my behalf, and I’m a pretty big Fury fan (was of Mike too). But the length of Fury’s arms I think would be the difference. Also we saw what happened with Mike when he had to fight into the later rounds. I think Fury would be able to keep him at bay for a chunk of the match. Also he’s a southpaw, which always makes it difficult for righty’s.
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You think Mike Tyson didn't fight guys that were bigger than him? Everyone he fought had a reach advantage - he knew how to deal with it.
As has been noted, he was so damn hard to keep out of your kitchen because he'd just keep coming. He'd get that head down behind his gloves and keep you from landing anything square then he'd just pursue, pursue, pursue. If you tried to stand there and keep him back with jabs, that would work - for awhile. But he was cat quick and the moment you missed with a jab, he inside on you. Now you're trying to back up to re-gain the space you lost be he's not letting you. Because again - he just kept coming.
And here's one of my favorite things about Tyson and I've alluded to it before - he's one of the best displays of the kinetic chain in action you will ever see. Tyson could step and delivery a punch that used that step to his advantage. He was able to use that step to help rotate his hips and in so doing take all that energy, put it into his back and then rotate his torso through and put a TON of energy into the punch.
So sure - try to keep him at distance. It can work if you're pristine in your execution or if he's not on his game. But you're not trying anything that hasn't been tried. He knows how to deal with length; he's been doing it his entire career. He's GOING to get inside you at some point and he's probably going to deliver serious damage when he does. So you'd better be able to take a wallop and then you'd better hope you catch him off balance and put one on the button.
Because you're not gonna stick and move your way to a win against prime Tyson. He was in too great a shape, he was too fast, he was too powerful and he was, in a seemingly impossible convergence, a relentless technician. It's hard to be as persistent AND as sound as he was. A war of attrition isn't gonna work.
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