How Will We Remember Mike Tyson When He Is Dead And Gone?

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Personally, If I'm still alive, I'll miss him a bit. He was far from the worst as a Man, and one of the best fighters ever.:clap:

 

I dunno, there's so many things you can remember him as. As one of the most loved and hated athletes ever. For all the excitement and brutal KOs, as well as the terrible things he did and the outrageous things he said.

He's my favorite fighter of all-time so I'll basically just choose to remember the good things, and never watch the last 2 fights of his career.

 

I think mike is a dirty low down dog but he's had his share of great fights.

 

as an over-rated front runner
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maybe, maybe.

 

One thing for sure, there'll never be another boxer with his viceral appeal....especially with the growth of mma.

 

In his prime he was one bad Mother-Fucker. A great fighter with Blinding handspeed, power, and had a great chin.

 

Tyson's out of the ring lunacy will easily overshadow anything he's ever done in the ring.


Does anyone remember OJ Simpson as the Hall of Fame Football Player that he was?

TFK

 

I think I'll remember Tyson as not only being the biggest box office draw until DLH came along but also the biggest rip-off in history. I honestly can't recall even 1 ppv where Tyson actually gave the crowd and ppv buyers their money's worth(in which he won). Almost every fight in which he didn't get KTFO in, people booed like hell. His fights were really sh*tty quality overall. And he fought way too much handpicked trash.
Despite that, he was a very good fighter but a front runner, never got up off his back to win a fight.
Plus he has the most amount of comebacks than anybody. It was always "The Return of Tyson" or "Tyson is back".
He turned the sport into a freakshow after Holyfield 2, and that's really where things went downhill respect-wise for the sport. He was the ambassador for a time. Once the at the time biggest fight in history ended in chaos, boxing's rep never recovered.
His fights overall weren't worth the money IMO. He and his team really ripped off the fans most of the time. It's one thing to go and blow out handpicked fodder in a round like Julius Francis, Savarese and crap like that.
I wished he had picked fights with guys like Tua, Byrd, Klitschko and them and then tried to blow those guys out. At least we could've claimed Tyson's wins as legitimate then.
Nobody cares about a figther who blows away handpicked fodder. That's the main thing that tuned me out of Tyson's crappy ppv fights. I didn't like that or respect it. While most everyone else would be on here celebrating and cheering with BS like "Oh man, did you see that punch, Tyson killed him, Tyson is f*cking back, man! He's gonna kill anyone out there!"
And all the while, I'm here saying "Who the f*ck did he just beat, a handpicked tomato can who was supposed to lose."
I really hated the Tyson fans. Such a rare breed. Lived in a bubble.
Other than that, Tyson was alright and had a decent career although it could've been a much better one and he may have a better rep if he'd grown up a bit.

 

Tyson was the last dominant and EXCITING heavyweight champion the division saw.

Since he left, things in that division haven't been the same. Sure, Evander, Bowe, and Lennox managed to breath some life back into the division in the 1990s, but it wasn't as if they eletrified the public into watching boxing like Iron Mike.

In terms of carrying the heavyweight torch FOR ALL TO SEE, Mike is up there with Ali, and Marciano.

The heavyweight division of the modern era is heart breaking. It's lead by a bunch of glass chinned zombies, and over muscled front runners. I forgot about the heavyweight division the day Lennox Lewis retired. Give me the welterweights, featherweights, and flyweights, that's where all the action and excitement is these days. :clap:

 

He'll be remembered as a one-dimensional cheating, ear-biting rapist who took it up the ass in prison and prospered in a real weak era of heavyweights.

WWF-fodder.

 

Mind you, he is high-comedic value though:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cb8nxSl3UlM

"you can't last two minutes in my world, bitch! I'll fuck you til you love me, you fucking faggot!!"
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When you considr some of the scum bags that have been let into England, and then, let back out, what the Home Office tried to do to Mike was plain wrong.

 

I wouldn't but at least we can say that Lewis will be remembered only for his boxing career which is the way it should be. Lived a clean cut life, good role model for kids, never swore or did drugs or was involved in bar fights or street fights or anything.

 

Yeah but Lewis is GAY, so there!!

 

Mike is BI. :tease: Wanting to rape men, and probably got it up the ass in a gang-bang in prison.

 

Pics???

 

No doubt as one of the all time greats. He was a kid when he was destroying people. Guys here act like it was all hand picked bums.. that is revision history.. many of the guys that Tyson beat when he was young.. it was not always expected that Tyson was gonna blow through them. When he fought Spinks most guys at the show picked Spinks..
Mike had good power.. GREAT speed.. that's what was amazing.. his speed.. he'd hit guys with punches SOO fast and SNAP them! his Defense was very good to, his side to side (peek-a-boo) was incredible.
I think it was Larry holmes that said that Shavers hitting you was like getting hit by a slow moving Tractor trailer.. his shots were HEAVY.. Tyson though.. it wasnt the "weight" it was the SPEED! He said Tyson's were more like a Lamborghini going 200mph.. he said you'd get hit and then before you know it your hit 3 more times.. all of them hard!

Since Tyson's decline.. the HW division got boring.. Lemmon is so boring.. Bowe blew it.. no one else real real exciting out there! We need a new young buck to come in and destroy everyone!! But guys like a young Tyson are very rare

 

Thank you:bears:

Of course some people (I'm not naming which morons who on this site) actually think Mike was a complete 360 for the sport than what you just described

 

dsimon writes:

I agree with Lok. When Tyson was on he was great like Jones was great. He didn't beat people he destroyed them... Total domination. Even if he fought guys at times that were cans, he put on a clinic... he just destroyed them and moved through them in a way that showed how much better he was. Especially when you consider his small size compared to the big boys now-a-days. He was perhaps the most dominant heavyweight in history and outside the ring nobody would know it.

Lewis was a great fighter but I think these words spoken by Holyfield make a lot of sense: When asked about the decision of the first fight with Lewis Holyfield said, "Lewis never went after me, he had his chance and didn't try to press me or put me down, so I don't know what he is complaining about."

The truth is Lewis was great but he didn't have the mentality to dominate the division and it made him appear at times, as lacking. I don't agree with this assesment but it makes sense. Lewis generally took the safest and smartest route in his victories which I can't fault him for. But Tyson, on the other hand always appeared to want the KO.

 

Lewis ranks higher all-time on the heavyweight list than Tyson. His career was better.

And this is from someone who's never been as dissapointed and depressed after a boxing match than I was the night of June 8, 2002.