Is Mike Tyson a consensus Top10 Heavyweight of All Time or no?

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

I'll take Tyson forever until someone as bonafide comes along. I was lucky enough to see many Tyson recorded fights on VHS and there's nothing like it. Too strong too fast too good.

nah...prime foreman (who mike was scared to death of), ali and any version of lennox washes tyson

liston would've bodied tyson too and frazier would've given him hell just off gp cos of his pressure cooker style, left hook and the fact he wouldn't have been shook of him.

i'd have loved to have seen tyson vs earnie shavers or ron lyle...lawd a mighty the hayemakers being thrown

 

[Gothboi J]

He's not in my top 10 but u can make the argument

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

For all of you detractors, I was alive watching the actual broadcast. Sportwriters at the weigh-in (which was on ESPN/Tyson showed up late) and the HBO commentators prior to the start of the fight (Merchant/Lampley/Leonard) were complaining that Mike had maybe over-trained for the fight. If Tyson wasn't in shape, he wouldn't have lasted 10 rounds. Douglas was hemming him up from the first bell. The only clear round you can say that Tyson won in that fight was the 8th (the knockdown round..

I'll go on the tc-boxing torrent site to get the full HBO broadcast.

Here's Oliver McCall interview on the fight.

 

[Gothboi J]

A lot of casuals in this thread. Lol

 

[Antdrewjosh]

Waaaaa waaaaaa douglas didnt beat the count.. sounds like adversity to me. Ok drop his ass again. Nope gets mollywhopped for the rest of the fight.. no mental toughness. Something required to be considered great IMO

 

[OC's finest]

youngest hw to unify belts

based on that alone, yes

over-rated by many, but to place him out of the top 10 is to vastly under-rate him

 

[GPBear]

Top 5 easy

 

[Spence]

I’m still pissed off from that 2000 Lewis V Tyson bout where Lennox talked ALL that shyt about ko’ing Tyson but then hugged him out the entire match

 

[BlackMajik]

Tyson may be overrated but yea he still Top 10

@ anyone putting Marciano over Tyson

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

From a LA Times article in the aftermath of the fight.

Way to a Knockout Became Perfectly Clear : Boxing: Douglas says the secret to defeating Tyson emerged from a moving experience.

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One of Tyson's sparring partners, who asked not to be identified, said Tyson was over-trained. But J.D. McCauley, Douglas' uncle and trainer, said his fighter, not fatigue, put the shakes to Tyson's legs.
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That sparring partner named in the article is Phillip Brown.

 

[MJ Truth]

I can’t put Mike ahead of Holyfield, Lewis, or the Klitschkos just off of nostalgia.

 

[Rekkapryde]

I see what you mean @patscorpio

 

[patscorpio]

They went at it for not 12, but 15 brutal rounds which was the last sanctioned 15 round championship fight.

Actually was not....

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

Actually was not....

Championship fight, not last 15 rounder.

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Correction: You're right. Minimumweight title fight in Thailand.

 

[patscorpio]

Championship fight, not last 15 rounder.

Still wasn't...