Boxing Thread
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The part of Tyson at his best that gets overlooked was his fast feet and his legs were very strong , even if he trained up his upper body strength which you still can do as you age , but that quick footwork was never coming back .
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@kiwiinmelb said in Boxing Thread:
The part of Tyson at his best that gets overlooked was his fast feet and his legs were very strong , even if he trained up his upper body strength which you still can do as you age , but that quick footwork was never coming back .
and amazing head movement!
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@nostrildamus said in Boxing Thread:
@kiwiinmelb said in Boxing Thread:
The part of Tyson at his best that gets overlooked was his fast feet and his legs were very strong , even if he trained up his upper body strength which you still can do as you age , but that quick footwork was never coming back .
and amazing head movement!
All true but even at his absolute best he was beatable. I’m not sure any version of Tyson could have beaten Lewis and there’s also the school of thought that legends beforehand like Liston, Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Holmes ( yes, I know he beat an older version of him ) etc would have beaten Iron Mike. Maybe Norton too.
All debatable of course.
But still, one of the most compelling sportsmen of all time, fascinating fella…..and even at 58 I’m sure there was some clause or agreement not to throw with evil intentions at JP.
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I'm no boxing expert but from what I saw there seemed to he multiple times where Tyson got a good shot on Paul, and then seemed to back away. In his prime he would have gone for the kill as soon as he rocked his opponent. An agreement not to knock Paul out? Or too old to capitalise? His training videos suggested he still had the speed of hand but training is different to a real fight I guess.
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@MN5 said in Boxing Thread:
Tyson may be 58 years old but this was definitely a fix.
A nice business transaction to get a cheeky 20 mill.
Of course it was fixed. Whole thing was scripted.
The womens match before it was an actual boxing match and infinitely better.
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The disappointing and annoying part for me , with so many great genuine fights and cards that have been on this year .
This circus event( that’s all it is ) gets so much attention
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I don't know how accurate this is, but I did hear that the contract was formulated in such a manner that it was a sliding scale for Mike. If he knocked Paul down in the first he got nothing all the way up to the full amount in the eighth.
If true it seemed unnecessary given how little of the movement was in those old legs.
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@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:
I don't know how accurate this is, but I did hear that the contract was formulated in such a manner that it was a sliding scale for Mike. If he knocked Paul down in the first he got nothing all the way up to the full amount in the eighth.
If true it seemed unnecessary given how little of the movement was in those old legs.
that would be a damn shame if true: he didn't fight him, he nannied him!
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@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:
I don't know how accurate this is, but I did hear that the contract was formulated in such a manner that it was a sliding scale for Mike. If he knocked Paul down in the first he got nothing all the way up to the full amount in the eighth.
If true it seemed unnecessary given how little of the movement was in those old legs.
That sounds accurate.
Mind you Tyson is a loose unit, you wouldn’t put it past him to break character and KO him in the first……
…..which despite his age I’d still have backed him to do if he really wanted to
