F--- boxing

The announcer at 4:00 is something else.

"He is an astroner, he is seeing stars." "He is a marionette cut from his strings."

 

Are you going to watch Whitaker v Chavez? Biggest robbery I ever saw. Sweet Pea was awesome that night.

 

Yeah that's on the list along with Chavez - Taylor; I like to score those old fights too, so I will see if it's a big a travesty today as it was then. Whitaker was robbed against Jose Luis Ramirez too, that fight wasn't even remotely close. Epic post-fight explosion by Lou Duva after that one.

 

Eat Arby’s

 

The Hawk just had a dynamic chin and the ability to throw bombs with both hands. The movement, the aggression, the fearless nature of his style. Yeah Arguello was tremendous, but just not the right matchup.

And I'm one of the ones that believes Ray Leonard ducked Pryor at every turn.

 

There weren't a lot of great heavyweight fights in the 1980s. There was some great events like Holmes-Ali, Tyson-Spinks...hell any Tyson fight, but the battles were lacking. I thought Holmes won the second Spinks fight and probably the first, but I don't have any interest in watching either again.

Once you get to the 90s, there are some solid big-man scraps. And a second golden era of lightweights and middleweights. So much to choose from in the 90s through the first half of the 2000s.

 

I thought Spinks won the first fight and I had Holmes in a close decision in the rematch but I haven't watched either since they were first aired.

 

Michael Spinks’ eyes were as big as saucers when he left his corner to face Tyson. He lasted about 1:30, if I remember correctly.

 

1:31 to be exact

 

It was the rare superfight where I don't anyone on earth picked an upset. Nobody thought Spinks could win and you could probably count on one hand the people that thought Spinks would last past six rounds.

 

I know Buster Diuglas beating Tyson was the greatest upset ever but Leon Spinks over Ali was unbelievable watching that live. Could not fathom that Ali would lose at that point and to him.

 

I think one of the dirty little secrets of Tyson's reign as champ was that he never fought anybody. It wasn't necessarily his fault, it was more the era he came of age in, but he was still destroying a lot of tomato cans on his way up the ladder and even as champ. By the time he fought his best opponents either they (Larry Holmes) or he (Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis) were well past their prime. He didn't benefit from going through a deep heavyweight division like the fighters of the late 60s and early 70s, or even the 90s, or a great high-end rivalry like Ali-Frazier or Holyfield-Bowe.
Probably a hot take, but I think you can easily make the case that Tyson was one of the most overrated of the all-time great heavyweights.
Might also be the reason we thought he still had enough in the tank to destroy Jake Paul. We saw a few videos and remembered the destroyer he was in 1987, and not how washed up he was 10-15 years later when his career was winding down.