Samuel Peter -- latest heavyweight boxing disappointment

Yeah good research by you. I guess McBride wasn't 6'6" and Razor Ruddock wasn't 6'3". I should've said at least 6'3"
Ruddock, who was average, gave Tyson a good fight and if he knew how to throw a combination might've
been able to do more. I guess Buster Douglas wasn't over 6'3" either.
Golota also is taller than 6'3". Tyson crushed him, but that's either bad research or math by you.

 

I'm sorry, Tyson won both fights against Ruddock, even though one went the full 12 rounds. I said Douglas up there, and I said he and Lewis were the two fighters to legitimately knock Tyson out who were over 6'3". Tyson was completely out of shape and not ready for the McBride fight and he partied constantly like he did before the Douglas fight. He didn't take Douglas and McBride for who they were and paid the price. He was one of the best fighters ever though in his prime.

 

He didn't really face anyone that good in his prime. Did you watch him then?
I'll give you another name, Riddick Bowe. We'll never know, but I'd bet Bowe beats
Tyson in his prime. Bowe won 2 out of 3 vs. Holyfield, when both were in their
prime and we know what happened when Tyson fought Holyfield.
Holyfield is a warrior and I hope he doesn't suffer permanent injuries.
But he is one of the best headbutters ever. That and Tyson's inability to
control his emotions, led to the ear bite.

 

It's true that Tyson never fought anyone good in his prime. Boxing needed someone during that time to bridge between Ali, Frazier, and Foreman, and the nothing that is now. Tyson fought nobodies and made it look easy. Don King set up the bowling pins in the ring and Tyson knocked them down. If he were a heavyweight now, he would be able to do most of the same work, figuring he was in his prime. If he was a heavyweight in the 1970s, he would be destroyed.

 

Mr Fly,

Bonecrusher was six-four and only realized in the last round that he might have been able to hurt Tyson. Tony Tucker was that size, maybe an inch taller, and hurt Tyson in the first before he got the shakes. That's two off the top of my head. I think there must be one or two others going back to Tyson's best days.

YHS, etc

 

Yes FOF, Tucker was 6'5" and so was Mitch "Blood" Green. That guy partied as hard as Tyson and
wasn't afraid of him. I definitely think Klitschko also would be a tough opponent for Tyson.