Boxing Thread
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@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:
@canefan said in Boxing Thread:
I hope Mike comes alive and KOs Paul in the final round. He looks nothing like his sparring videos. Perhaps he's been told not to knock him out
Dude. He's 58, deep in to the final rounds. His sparring videos were cuts of a few seconds.
I know. But my childhood memories of him are immense
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After the 1st round I hoped we might see a decent fight, then about halfway through the 2nd you could see where it was headed.
Good payday for both...
Saw a comment on SM that Paul had a clause if he wins, he gets Eastwood and Freeman next 😄
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@canefan said in Boxing Thread:
@antipodean said in Boxing Thread:
@canefan said in Boxing Thread:
I hope Mike comes alive and KOs Paul in the final round. He looks nothing like his sparring videos. Perhaps he's been told not to knock him out
Dude. He's 58, deep in to the final rounds. His sparring videos were cuts of a few seconds.
I know. But my childhood memories of him are immense
Same. And what I watched wasn't that.
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@Bones said in Boxing Thread:
@MN5 It was just part of my standard subscription? But yeah waste of effort to open the app and keep reopening the stream when it buffered.
Yeah that’s exactly what I mean.
13 bucks a month or whatever it is.
I’m Scottish remember
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Paul's stock nosedived after that
Tyson took some really good shots and I think Paul felt he couldn't knock him out so stayed out of range
Tyson wasn't quick enough to close the gap and pile the pressure on inside
Great post-fight comment to Ariel's question about the mouthguard and glove
'I have a biting fixation'
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Bite v Bit
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if there was a Mr T version it could be "I pity the foal"!
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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.
