An observation. He seems to have shown compassion for the other guy, especially early on. Knew he could put the hurts on them, bad. I doubt I'll go as far as reading though.
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I sat ringside for Tyson vs Mitch blood Green at Madison Square Garden....Green held on for dear life all 6 rounds but you could hear Tysons punches when he hit the body and his hand speed /movement was incredible.
What I loved about the guy was when the bell rang it was on. He didn’t spend the first round sparing. He went after the guy all out. He was a pit bull.
I sat ringside for Tyson vs Mitch blood Green at Madison Square Garden....Green held on for dear life all 6 rounds but you could hear Tysons punches when he hit the body and his hand speed /movement was incredible.
A good friend saw Tyson early on in his Career a number of times , said the same thing. And that’s been my experience watching boxing and mma live. Hard shots just thud through an arena.
The best was Gus’s clip in the beginning. When Gus died Mike lost his grounding. The world and don king ate him alive...
I love the thought of cross generational/era matches and would put Tyson vs Ali among the top.
Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
Came across this. Left jab. Right body, right jab. Enjoy.
Alderson looked like they went to the corporate office of a paper supply company, grabbed the first man in a cubicle, put some trunks on him, and put him in the ring with Iron Mike.
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I watched all of that. I think Tyson was 5 or 6-0 when I first saw him fight. I knew then that he'd become champion. There were a few things that impressed me very early on with him, and I think it's what made him the great champion that he was. He had compact powerful punches. Compared to another great, like George Foreman who would bring a freight train at foes from way outside, Tyson's power came from in close. He generated so much of his power with torso rotation.
Equally impressive was how quickly he could reload with the same hand. He could knock an opponent down with a right and hit them two more times with powerful rights as he fell. That made him especially tough to defend. Strong combinations so often come from alternating hands, but you never knew what would come next with Tyson's combos.
I had never seen other fighters leap with their punches. Tyson would often come off of the ground and into an opponent with full power punch. I don't know that I have ever seen any other fighter throw those leaping punches.
Tyson was hard to hit too. He had a phenomenally active upper body. Coupled with being comparatively short and having that scrunched up style where his arms and hands kept his body and head well defended, Tyson was hard to hit.
Tyson had unparalleled fire, will, speed and power. He had a cool head in the ring too. When he was at his best, he was the best fighter to ever take to the ring. A part of him died with Cus D'amato. He never was quite the same following his death.
An observation. He seems to have shown compassion for the other guy, especially early on. Knew he could put the hurts on them, bad. I doubt I'll go as far as reading though.
I liked that too. He'd rush in to help pick them up or to check on them.
