You must be out of your mind that a guy like Tyson Fury beats the great Mike Tyson. This fight would have been a slaughter a la Jack Dempsey-Jess Willard or Joe Louis-Primo Carnera butchery.Kalan wrote:You know, it's damned funny. People were bragging about how David Haye was going to murder Fury.. I was on the fence a bit, but then Haye came up with a cut eye.. Then he came up with a bad shoulder.. Then the people who hated Fury were bragging about how Klitschko was going to murder Fury because a Cruiserweight put him down... Of course, a Cruiserweight knocked Mike down too... and beat Mike TF up... and knocked Mike out.. The only person who ever knocked Steve Cunningham out is Tyson Fury
If you're going to disqualify everyone who was ever knocked down, just look back at all the ATG Heavyweight Champions.. I don't know why Wladimir wore gloves when he fought Fury. I guess his hands were cold because he wasn't throwing anything.. It's damned hard to throw when your opponent is so big, tall, and long, and a good boxer.. Fury kept poking punches in Wlad's face and he was afraid to come in -- kind of like Mike when he fought Lewis.. Fury is a slick defender and Mike was wide open for everything.. Douglas beat the crap out of poor little Mike for the duration... Then he teed the short little dude up and knocked him TFO... kind of like the way Lewis teed Mike up, but with a lot more variety in his punches and fluidity in his delivery. The 42/1 favorite had a very hard time getting his shots off.
Bottom line? ... Many people knocked out Buster Douglas -- and some of them weren't very good.. Fury is unbeaten and untied.. He's not going to remain that way if he ever fights Anthony Joshua, but for now he is... and he would have beaten the other guy named Tyson in a walk.
Buster Douglas beat Tyson because he had the attributes of a big heavyweight should be: Tall, strong, good reach, good jab, and in perfect weight at 231lbs. Plus, he was faster than Tyson throwing the jab and overhand right. He fought a perfect fight. Plus, he was not a scared stiff and was motivated.
In Tyson's defense, I believe he was in an OFF NIGHT. Greg Page gave him a knockdown in sparring before the fight. Inside sources say that Iron Mike was terrible in sparring. Kevin Rooney wasn't his trainer anymore. We saw the decline in the first Frank Bruno fight. Plus, he had an awful corner of yes men that didn't know nothing about training a boxer. They were just there to supply Don King's demands. Tyson even had some austracious orgies with some Japanese women strippers. His mind wasn't in boxing. He figured that it was an easy payday. That he believed his own hype that nobody could beat him. He was utterly overconfident. I thought that the fight was gonna be another one round fest like he was doing and go home. What I saw was an incredible performance by Douglas. We cannot take that away from him. He fought his fight. Could have he done it with a motivated Tyson of the 80s? Probably yes, probably not. But it would have been a much dramatic fight for sure.
I thought that if Douglas would have come in that same type of shape and motivation, he would have beaten the great Evander Holyfield, too. But, we know what happened. Douglas came fat, disinterested, unmotivated, overweight and in an OFF NIGHT. Douglas mind was not into it after Tyson I believe. He just wanted those $25 million dollars and go home quickly. And that's what happened. He got dispatched quickly by The Real Deal. Ain't no way that you beat Holyfield in his prime and you didn't train to face him. That is a no no.
