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He was a bad dude in his day.
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Yes, he was. I loved his fights. I just dont know how he can all of a sudden have no slurred speech. I have never seen it. He was talking all nice and clear. He has a little homeboy accent haha, but he was talking clear.
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Or brain surgery?
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The slurred speech thing still boggles me. I dont think speech therapy or brain surgery has anything to do with it. He was half scrambled eggs already lol |
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And he lost to Buster Douglas at a time when he should have been in his prime.
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I think Tyson was really good, but he seriously lost focus and started partying to much i think. Also his trainer who was like a dad to him died and he was never the same.
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No one that would have ever gotten a title shot in any any era before the Tyson era. Tyson was better than anyone in his time by far. But that's like saying that a bad NFL team is better than a junior high team. The fact that NFL team could pummel those junior high teams doesn't make them really good.
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He was a paper champion. Larry Holmes, OTOH, defended the heavyweight title 19 times, the most since Joe Louis. He did fight everyone - from Ken Norton to Ernie Shavers to Ossie Ocasio, Mike Weaver, Michael Dokes, Pinklon Thomas and on and on and on. At one point, he was fighting one a month! That hadn't been done since the 1940's! Mike Tyson wouldn't have lasted against the likes of Holmes, Shavers, Weaver and especially, Ken Norton. Hell, Tyson couldn't beat Buster Douglas. |
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He fought and beat Razor Ruddick 2 times. Awesome fights too.
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Again, I'm not a fan. I acknowledge that his fight history is spotty and that he fought bums.
But he destroyed all comers. He was vicious. I don't think he's the best of all time. I'm really not big enough of a boxing authority to comment on that. I just think saying he was not "really good" is unfair because he was at least "really good". |
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Tyson would have a better place in history if he would have fought and beaten all the young heavyweights of the time instead of 37 year old club that included Tony Tucker, James "Bonehugger" Smith, Trevor Berbick and so on. |
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