Chris Byrd And Riddikk Bowe Question Mike Tyson's Legacy: "What's His Biggest Win?"
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Bowe fought Real Deal 3 times and won twice. Besides that who did he beat? He fought some of the same fighters Tyson fought. The Golota fights were eventful, he ducked Lennox, at least the over the hill Tyson fought Lennox even though he knew he was going to lose.
Byrd has some good wins in his career, but bragging about fighting and LOSING to the Klit brehs isn't something to brag about, come to think about it he did beat Vitali but that was due to a shoulder injury, the fight was called. He also beat an old Holyfield, I mean like I said before, he had some good wins.
I take nothing away from those dudes but don't act like Mike only fought tomato cans. These dudes talking like they fought in Ali's era.
The 3 worse things that happened to Mike's legacy was:
1. Cus dying
2. Going to jail
3. Ridding Kevin Rooney as his trainer
Why? Because he opened himself up to videos like this, a dude who couldn't hold his jock strap questioning his in the ring legacy. Mike would raped Byrd, but pre-jail Mike vs. Bowe would've been
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That bum in your avi is overrated.
But yeah Mike is a tad bit overrated when looking at his WHOLE body of work, people usually remember the pre-jail Mike and the Kevin Rooney trained Mike and forget the other half of his career, but his skills as a fighter to me was UNDER appreciated, his ferociousness is what people remember.
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krackdagawd
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Bowe fought Real Deal 3 times and won twice. Besides that who did he beat? He fought some of the same fighters Tyson fought. The Golota fights were eventful, he ducked Lennox, at least the over the hill Tyson fought Lennox even though he knew he was going to lose.
Byrd has some good wins in his career, but bragging about fighting and LOSING to the Klit brehs isn't something to brag about, come to think about it he did beat Vitali but that was due to a shoulder injury, the fight was called. He also beat an old Holyfield, I mean like I said before, he had some good wins.
I take nothing away from those dudes but don't act like Mike only fought tomato cans. These dudes talking like they fought in Ali's era.
The 3 worse things that happened to Mike's legacy was:
1. Cus dying
2. Going to jail
3. Ridding Kevin Rooney as his trainer
Why? Because he opened himself up to videos like this, a dude who couldn't hold his jock strap questioning his in the ring legacy. Mike would raped Byrd, but pre-jail Mike vs. Bowe would've been
at least Tyson fought lewis
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atl least Tyson fought lewis
Yep, even knowing that he was going to lose too.
Mike is my all time fav but I don't defend him like he's Ali, I've conceded a long time ago that he is a "Could've been if...." fighter
So when people dump on Mike with facts I'm like
but once you go overboard
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King P
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Who the fukk did Byrd ever beat other than a past Holyfield and Tua No I'm not counting that W over Vitali 
Tyson woulda starched that nikka quicker than Ibeabuchi 
And I like both Byrd and Bowe, but them nikkas outta line here tryna talk shyt.
Especially Bowe, and his contradicting ass. Always lying when it came to Tyson
1st it was "Me and Tyson agreed never to fight each other because we from the same hood"
Yet tried to say he took the Golota fight as a tuneup to get a bout with Tyson
Then he talks about always showing support for Mike as a fellow Brooklynite and not having anything bad to say about him.
Now he's here in this video talking shyt
This is stupid.
You have no control over which fighters are in your era.
They said the same garbage about Roy Jones Jr.
Mike beat everyone there was to beat when he came up.
Cus died.
He had issues with Cayton and Jacobs.
He got mixed up in drugs.
He got screwed by Don King.
What happened to Mike was probably inevitable...especially for an insecure kid with no structure who was Heavyweight Champion of the world at age 20.
Twenty.
I doubt anyone could have handled his situation any differently.
But all that aside, this notion that Tyson was some stupid brawler with no skills is so far beyond preposterous it's not even worth entertaining.
And as far as knowledge...Mike Tyson is lowkey, one of the most knowledgeable boxing historians there is.
You have no control over which fighters are in your era.
They said the same garbage about Roy Jones Jr.
Mike beat everyone there was to beat when he came up.
Cus died.
He had issues with Cayton and Jacobs.
He got mixed up in drugs.
He got screwed by Don King.
What happened to Mike was probably inevitable...especially for an insecure kid with no structure who was Heavyweight Champion of the world at age 20.
Twenty.
I doubt anyone could have handled his situation any differently.
But all that aside, this notion that Tyson was some stupid brawler with no skills is so far beyond preposterous it's not even worth entertaining.
And as far as knowledge...Mike Tyson is lowkey, one of the most knowledgeable boxing historians there is.
This is some hatin ass shyt. I could literally go through every fighters resume & pick it apart.
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Riddikk can question it, Chris Byrd tho
That's like a current heavyweight boxer questioning Ali's legacy
The reason why there are not many notable names is because no name is comparable to Mike Tyson
At the time, Tyson was fighting the top fighters, and none of them were slouches
Once Tyson got to them, they became slouches. Ask Michael Spinks about it
Whats even more impressive is Mike was doing all the No-No's like drinking, drugging, fukking before, during, after camp. That is why after jail he became to decline quicker than you'd expect.
Mike Tyson in his prime was untouchable. I love Riddikk Bowe, and think he could have a shot
His wars with Holyfield is why I know he is a GOAT candidate. But this ain't a good look Riddikk
At the same time, Riddikk doesn't get the respect he deserves so I can see why he would say such a thing
Knicksman20
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Tyson accomplished more than Bowe & Byrd combined. Mike unified the heavyweight titles & pretty much cleaned the division. He also had him prime taken from him because of the case he caught.
Perfectson
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It's a good debate and 10-20 years now, will people still argue that Tyson was one of the best heavy weights ever? Especially after looking at his resume...
he beat everyone they put in front of him, but the majority of those guys no one talks about
Lost to Holyfield twice,
Lost to Buster
Lost to Lennox
if he would have at least beat Holyfield then i think it would have shut up some detractors (since HOlyfield mollywhooped Buster)
he beat everyone they put in front of him, but the majority of those guys no one talks about
Lost to Holyfield twice,
Lost to Buster
Lost to Lennox
if he would have at least beat Holyfield then i think it would have shut up some detractors (since HOlyfield mollywhooped Buster)
Willy Waffle
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Get the fuk outta here with that
you can say tyson head and shoulder above byrd but in no way shape or form is tyson head and shoulders above bowe. when you really look at it, thieir resume matches up quite evenly, tyson just had the bigger name and got the superstardom bowe never had.
shyt they even got some of the same names on there resume pinklon, seldon, tubbs, tyrell biggs, buster mathis, holyfield, golota
so your gonna forget that bowe unified titles as well, when he beat holyfield in the first fight
say what you want to say bout bowe ill take the biggest win on his resume which is holyfield (top 10, even arguable top 5 heavyweight of all time) >>>> the biggest win on tyson resume, a glorified light heavyweight michael spinks.i think tyson is more overrated by casuals then boxing purists. i have no problem what either bowe or byrd said
