between :59 and 1:08 I dont see any fighter in history beating this attack.To add insult to injury,poor thomas tried to hit tyson off the ropes after tysons combinations and tyson slipped the punch as fluidly as Cassius cClay would have.Tyson was,in this period as fast as Clay in his entire muscle fiber twitching thruout his body.He truly did slow down as early as in his mid 20's.Perhaps from lack of conditioning as he went thru in this 87-88 deadly period.
Even mention tyson in the same class as the greats of tyson,frazier,foreman,norton,shaver lets u know his greatness i am a big fan of ali and kid dynamite but in my opinion Ali has the edge i terms of experience and pyshological experience remember he beat stret thugs alrady in liston.
Doe liston is a all time great too, and that is why we love tyson because of th what if nothing more, also lets give credit where it is due if we are gone to big up rockthen we can give tyson his props lol.
I saw this live on HBO and I think Angelo Dundee should have fought Tyson. Jokes aside, it's funny how people always knock on Tyson. Tyson did fight all of the best back then but was so fast and so powerful that even the best looked like two-bit-nobody's. This is why a million people watch these Tyson YouTube fights all day and night.
@DOCTORDRIBBLES I agree. Heres a thought.....some of tysons opponents may have gone on to become all time greats had tyson not existed.
But tyson did exist and came along to beat them all. This made them look like 2 bit nobodies as you said and as a result, these guys faded into oblivion. Its just cause and effect. One persons existence affects another,
@BoxingPride Exactly,thats why in a fight between ho;y of 96 against this tyson of 87.I see it a little like thomas.Pinklon thomas could have beaten holyfield when thomas was in his prime but he was still a very capable fighter here and tried to nullify tyson close as holy did in 96 with his head rushes but this tyson would have banged up holyfield inside because this 87 tyson had a faster muscle fiber twitching and he would have landed 70% more shots inside then the 96 tyson did.
@fadethetrade If you fanboys want to think Tyson has a chance against Ali go ahead. But the Ali of 66 would whip Tyson. Ali has faster hands, better footwork, better chin, far more heart, beat far better fighters than tyson, has height and a huge reach advantage, incredible reflexes, far better mental strength than tyson too. Tyson wouldn't stand a chance, it's actualy insulting to say he would. Tyson is a great fighter but he is not near the league of Ali.
@XavierMarciano Im not a tyson nuthugger but at that period ,he was the toughest and best since ali.For example,this tyson would have busted up holyfield inside if holy fought him the same way with holys head rushes,tysons short hooks back then were too fast ans too accurate and holy would be forced into a war as bowe did .Patterson,frazier and norton were the threee toughest for clay or ali to beat and tyson was all three put together but stronger and an iron chin.You think it would be easy?
@XavierMarciano "dont look for one shot,punch out" rooney yelled to tyson.This was one of the traits that tyson stopped doing after 1988.He only looked for one shot at a time.When he threw the combinations with berbick adn spinks and holmes,he was the most devistating in history/Those three nights,pickem,he beats any heavy in history on those three nights.48% of the boxing world picked spinks to beat tyson so it wasnt considered going to be a mismatch and holmes was still a very capable fighter
We just keep the douglas and holy fights in our minds and believe that tyson was always overrated and coudlnt have any plan if things got rough but thats what the bootcamp conditioning and best corner guy would do for tyson.making sure tyson would be FIRST on the attack,not sit back.If it was 1988,rooney and tyson would find a way to finish off douglas and holy wouldnt make it past the 5th round ala what Cooper almost did to holyfield and tyson was by far the best finisher holy would ever face.
Watching this fight again, makes me believe even more, that prime ali of 66 would beat prime tyson, the few times thomas is up on his toes and moving and jabbing, tyson struggles. Now imagine its the ali of 66, constant moving and not standing toe to toe with tyson like pinklon does too often here. And ali would not be half as slow as pinklon with throwing his jab, he would throw it fast and often. No doubt ali wins, ko round 9.
@XavierMarciano but remember that Alis toughest rival was Joe Frazier.The same style of bob and weaving with devastating body work slowed down Ali tons therefore was able to hit him with those incredible left hooks to the jaw.
@XavierMarciano this was tyson 1987 im not even a super tyson fan tyson 87 wasent a beast yet he just coming in 88 tyson head movement bob and weave combos everthing ive seen ali fight tons of times at the same age tyson would win he let copper knock him down people hate on tyson because he went down hill if tyson stayed to cus plan he would be undeafted retired everbody would say he is the greatest if cus didnt die tyson wouldnt be beat hands down
@HatmanTV I know man, and I like tyson. But I can't understand these tyson fan boys, in a hypothetical fight they always compare the prime tyson of 88 to the ali that fought frazier!! Ali fought frazier for the first time in 71, ali was at his best in 66. So the tyson fan boys don't even call the hypothetical fairly. Ali was much faster and slicker in 66. He could dodge and slip punches unreal back then, by the time he fought frazier he couldn't do it anymore.
@XavierMarciano between 0:59 and 1:08, I dont see any fighter in history beating this attack.To add insult to injury,poor thomas tried to hit tyson off the ropes after tysons combinations and tyson slipped the punch as fluidly as Cassius Clay.Tyson was,in this period as fast as Clay in his entire muscle fiber twitching thruout his body.He did slow down as early as in mid 20's.Perhaps from lack of the conditioning he went thru 86-88 .66 Clay would be tested,Clay couldnt ko chuvalo or terrell.
@fadethetrade Clay couldn't ko Chuvalo, because Chuvalo is recognised as having the greatest chin among heavyweights ever!! Foreman couldn't put Chuvalo down, Frazier couldn't put Chuvalo down, Patterson couldn't put Chuvalo down, Mathis couldn't put Chuvalo down, Williams couldn't put Chuvalo down, Quarry couldn't put Chauvalo, Ellis couldn't put Chulavo down. So yes Ali couldn't put Chuvalo down, fucking nobody could!! Terrell kept his hands up the whole fight he just wanted to survive.
@XavierMarciano ruddock for 12 rounds used punches called "the smash" which almost killed dokes and would have killed smith if he got up.Tyson walked thru these hall of fame shots without flinching! These shots were stronger then foremans punches.It all depended what tyson showed up from 86-91.If the tyson that beat spinks showed up against ali.ali could have lost as he did with frazier,norton 3 times(lets face it,norton outpointed in all three fights) and chuvalo was a bum with the best chin.
@fadethetrade I'm not going to waste my time on a clearly big time tyson fan. Stop talking about the ali in 71 and later that face Frazier, Norton, etc. Lets talk 66 Ali at his very best , like the night he fought Cleveland Williams. If that Ali shows up, Tyson wouldn't be a contest. Tyson wouldn't touch him. Norton beat Ali all 3 times? Where did you pull that bs from. Ruddock punched harder than Foreman lmao, that was meant to be a joke I hope, otherwise you don't know much.
@XavierMarciano clay 66 was probably the greatest to ever step in the ring but tyson of a late 87 period thru 88 was the best also for a short time but he became tired and fed up with the media,journalists,turmoil with his mother inlaw and his bitch of a wife,don king pullng him away from the right focus and training regamine.We got jipped from having the best ever.Too bad because he was the guy to beat Clay but a 3yr stint wasnt enough for guys like you and many others to consider him the best
87-88,You were dead if you were in tysons punching range early because of his muscle twitching combinations.He didnt have the same fiber muscle twitch in his muscle reactions after 88 either to throw 4 punch combinations or to elude any combination thrown at him.These two traits were working perfectly in 87-88.Had this been holyfield the way he fought tyson in 1996,holyfield would have been busted up by the 5th round.
In fact,put this thomas in with tyson of post jail shot fighter 1996 and I'll bet this thomas can make it 12 rounds with that tyson.Thats the difference between this 87-88 tyson compared to all the other tysons including the post rooney tyson,.There was an obvious profound difference in the entire approach to fighting.And for some crazy reasons only tyson knows and was responsible for,he abandoned all of these abilities and only kept the head hunting one punch at a time power.
@capablemachine I'm not going to get into a huge debate. But all I will say is this is prime tyson. He ain't no god the tyson fanboys make him out to be. Ali would totally outclass tyson. Tyson should not be mentioned in the same sentence of ali.
@XavierMarciano Tyson knocks the number one contender out in round 6 and loses one round on two of the three judges scorecards when he's looking a little lazy and... what that means he'd get dominated by Ali?
@LedWhiskey69 TYSON HAD IT ALL THEN... EXCELLENT ELUSIVE LATERAL MOVEMENT AND RAPID FIRE COMBINATIONS. ALAS AFTER DISMISSING KEVIN ROONEY, IT ALL WENT AWOL.
iv been boxing for a year now tyson i found was jus a master in the ring ,he never wore socks because he says made him feel like a warior in the ring,after i heard that i thought to myself he was realy smart he used him mind alot even when he punched he imaged this goin through there head out the other end,jus ashame whats happened to him but why his life is interesting no matter who you are how much you make in the end be all gone.fighters love the monny he loved fighting in his prime.
@adeellime there is a dvd collection of tyson's fights? i am working on my own technique and i would love to have that so i can slow some of the action down and watch the intricacies of tyson's style, with this choppy grainy youtube shit (no offense to pakistani, he is a saint for taking the time to upload these) but i would still love to have the dvd's send that to me if you would.
Kevin Rooney yelling in the background cracks me up.
truekiwijoker 1 week ago
angelo didnt like to throw in the towel, wish he had been in peter mcneeleys corner.
veeseee128 2 months ago
Thanks for uploading though, a great example of Tyson at the height of his powers
IndrasBlade77 3 months ago
Which pixel is Tyson?
IndrasBlade77 3 months ago
between :59 and 1:08 I dont see any fighter in history beating this attack.To add insult to injury,poor thomas tried to hit tyson off the ropes after tysons combinations and tyson slipped the punch as fluidly as Cassius cClay would have.Tyson was,in this period as fast as Clay in his entire muscle fiber twitching thruout his body.He truly did slow down as early as in his mid 20's.Perhaps from lack of conditioning as he went thru in this 87-88 deadly period.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
During his days, Mike Tyson was all business in the ring, he never backed up, always moving foward, that's a real fighter.
scoppy80 4 months ago
jeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssuuuuuuuuussssssssssssssss christ
leave this fuckinmg man alone pmsl.
jimpurdie 7 months ago
Damn. Superman with a gun couldn't take Tyson back then...
absurdio 7 months ago
Between rounds 1 and 2 ...
Thomas : am I hurt?
Dundee : NO! You're nothing!...
LOL
dabears3495 9 months ago
mike is the best boxer of all time
TheZGhool86 10 months ago
At 2:35 you see Tyson behave like he does in the 90's with the one shots and then you hear the voice of Rooney yell "combinations".
capablemachine 10 months ago 2
Even mention tyson in the same class as the greats of tyson,frazier,foreman,norton,shaver lets u know his greatness i am a big fan of ali and kid dynamite but in my opinion Ali has the edge i terms of experience and pyshological experience remember he beat stret thugs alrady in liston.
Doe liston is a all time great too, and that is why we love tyson because of th what if nothing more, also lets give credit where it is due if we are gone to big up rockthen we can give tyson his props lol.
thugnast 11 months ago
Tyson....fast....furious.....powerful. The most exciting boxer ever. When he retired, boxing died.
No one can dispute that
womblewandering 1 year ago
Pinklon looks older than 29 to me.
TopLevel100 1 year ago
angelo dundee is a pitbull.
jimpurdie 1 year ago
I saw this live on HBO and I think Angelo Dundee should have fought Tyson. Jokes aside, it's funny how people always knock on Tyson. Tyson did fight all of the best back then but was so fast and so powerful that even the best looked like two-bit-nobody's. This is why a million people watch these Tyson YouTube fights all day and night.
DOCTORDRIBBLES 1 year ago
@DOCTORDRIBBLES I agree. Heres a thought.....some of tysons opponents may have gone on to become all time greats had tyson not existed.
But tyson did exist and came along to beat them all. This made them look like 2 bit nobodies as you said and as a result, these guys faded into oblivion. Its just cause and effect. One persons existence affects another,
womblewandering 1 year ago
God dam, What a iron jaw by Thomas...reminds of me holyfields ability to take a punch but you can't take those all night!
BoxingPride 1 year ago
@BoxingPride Exactly,thats why in a fight between ho;y of 96 against this tyson of 87.I see it a little like thomas.Pinklon thomas could have beaten holyfield when thomas was in his prime but he was still a very capable fighter here and tried to nullify tyson close as holy did in 96 with his head rushes but this tyson would have banged up holyfield inside because this 87 tyson had a faster muscle fiber twitching and he would have landed 70% more shots inside then the 96 tyson did.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
@fadethetrade If you fanboys want to think Tyson has a chance against Ali go ahead. But the Ali of 66 would whip Tyson. Ali has faster hands, better footwork, better chin, far more heart, beat far better fighters than tyson, has height and a huge reach advantage, incredible reflexes, far better mental strength than tyson too. Tyson wouldn't stand a chance, it's actualy insulting to say he would. Tyson is a great fighter but he is not near the league of Ali.
XavierMarciano 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano Im not a tyson nuthugger but at that period ,he was the toughest and best since ali.For example,this tyson would have busted up holyfield inside if holy fought him the same way with holys head rushes,tysons short hooks back then were too fast ans too accurate and holy would be forced into a war as bowe did .Patterson,frazier and norton were the threee toughest for clay or ali to beat and tyson was all three put together but stronger and an iron chin.You think it would be easy?
fadethetrade 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano "dont look for one shot,punch out" rooney yelled to tyson.This was one of the traits that tyson stopped doing after 1988.He only looked for one shot at a time.When he threw the combinations with berbick adn spinks and holmes,he was the most devistating in history/Those three nights,pickem,he beats any heavy in history on those three nights.48% of the boxing world picked spinks to beat tyson so it wasnt considered going to be a mismatch and holmes was still a very capable fighter
fadethetrade 4 months ago
We just keep the douglas and holy fights in our minds and believe that tyson was always overrated and coudlnt have any plan if things got rough but thats what the bootcamp conditioning and best corner guy would do for tyson.making sure tyson would be FIRST on the attack,not sit back.If it was 1988,rooney and tyson would find a way to finish off douglas and holy wouldnt make it past the 5th round ala what Cooper almost did to holyfield and tyson was by far the best finisher holy would ever face.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
Watching this fight again, makes me believe even more, that prime ali of 66 would beat prime tyson, the few times thomas is up on his toes and moving and jabbing, tyson struggles. Now imagine its the ali of 66, constant moving and not standing toe to toe with tyson like pinklon does too often here. And ali would not be half as slow as pinklon with throwing his jab, he would throw it fast and often. No doubt ali wins, ko round 9.
XavierMarciano 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano but remember that Alis toughest rival was Joe Frazier.The same style of bob and weaving with devastating body work slowed down Ali tons therefore was able to hit him with those incredible left hooks to the jaw.
BoxingPride 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano ali wins with the jab yeah right its guna take more than that to knock out tyson.
mjfanryan 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano this was tyson 1987 im not even a super tyson fan tyson 87 wasent a beast yet he just coming in 88 tyson head movement bob and weave combos everthing ive seen ali fight tons of times at the same age tyson would win he let copper knock him down people hate on tyson because he went down hill if tyson stayed to cus plan he would be undeafted retired everbody would say he is the greatest if cus didnt die tyson wouldnt be beat hands down
cainepittman2 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano
i agree 100%
HatmanTV 1 year ago
@HatmanTV I know man, and I like tyson. But I can't understand these tyson fan boys, in a hypothetical fight they always compare the prime tyson of 88 to the ali that fought frazier!! Ali fought frazier for the first time in 71, ali was at his best in 66. So the tyson fan boys don't even call the hypothetical fairly. Ali was much faster and slicker in 66. He could dodge and slip punches unreal back then, by the time he fought frazier he couldn't do it anymore.
XavierMarciano 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano
I think tyson was faster than frazier though although frazier was a good fighter too
womblewandering 1 year ago
@womblewandering Tyson was faster than frazier, but hugely slower than a 66 ali. Ali would whip tyson easy.
XavierMarciano 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano between 0:59 and 1:08, I dont see any fighter in history beating this attack.To add insult to injury,poor thomas tried to hit tyson off the ropes after tysons combinations and tyson slipped the punch as fluidly as Cassius Clay.Tyson was,in this period as fast as Clay in his entire muscle fiber twitching thruout his body.He did slow down as early as in mid 20's.Perhaps from lack of the conditioning he went thru 86-88 .66 Clay would be tested,Clay couldnt ko chuvalo or terrell.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
@fadethetrade Clay couldn't ko Chuvalo, because Chuvalo is recognised as having the greatest chin among heavyweights ever!! Foreman couldn't put Chuvalo down, Frazier couldn't put Chuvalo down, Patterson couldn't put Chuvalo down, Mathis couldn't put Chuvalo down, Williams couldn't put Chuvalo down, Quarry couldn't put Chauvalo, Ellis couldn't put Chulavo down. So yes Ali couldn't put Chuvalo down, fucking nobody could!! Terrell kept his hands up the whole fight he just wanted to survive.
XavierMarciano 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano ruddock for 12 rounds used punches called "the smash" which almost killed dokes and would have killed smith if he got up.Tyson walked thru these hall of fame shots without flinching! These shots were stronger then foremans punches.It all depended what tyson showed up from 86-91.If the tyson that beat spinks showed up against ali.ali could have lost as he did with frazier,norton 3 times(lets face it,norton outpointed in all three fights) and chuvalo was a bum with the best chin.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
@fadethetrade I'm not going to waste my time on a clearly big time tyson fan. Stop talking about the ali in 71 and later that face Frazier, Norton, etc. Lets talk 66 Ali at his very best , like the night he fought Cleveland Williams. If that Ali shows up, Tyson wouldn't be a contest. Tyson wouldn't touch him. Norton beat Ali all 3 times? Where did you pull that bs from. Ruddock punched harder than Foreman lmao, that was meant to be a joke I hope, otherwise you don't know much.
XavierMarciano 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano
I agree Ali chops tyson up, even the ali that fought frazier would handle him.
gibememoni 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano clay 66 was probably the greatest to ever step in the ring but tyson of a late 87 period thru 88 was the best also for a short time but he became tired and fed up with the media,journalists,turmoil with his mother inlaw and his bitch of a wife,don king pullng him away from the right focus and training regamine.We got jipped from having the best ever.Too bad because he was the guy to beat Clay but a 3yr stint wasnt enough for guys like you and many others to consider him the best
fadethetrade 4 months ago
87-88,You were dead if you were in tysons punching range early because of his muscle twitching combinations.He didnt have the same fiber muscle twitch in his muscle reactions after 88 either to throw 4 punch combinations or to elude any combination thrown at him.These two traits were working perfectly in 87-88.Had this been holyfield the way he fought tyson in 1996,holyfield would have been busted up by the 5th round.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
In fact,put this thomas in with tyson of post jail shot fighter 1996 and I'll bet this thomas can make it 12 rounds with that tyson.Thats the difference between this 87-88 tyson compared to all the other tysons including the post rooney tyson,.There was an obvious profound difference in the entire approach to fighting.And for some crazy reasons only tyson knows and was responsible for,he abandoned all of these abilities and only kept the head hunting one punch at a time power.
fadethetrade 4 months ago
@XavierMarciano Tyson is not struggling. He's barely getting hit with anything.
capablemachine 1 year ago
@capablemachine I'm not going to get into a huge debate. But all I will say is this is prime tyson. He ain't no god the tyson fanboys make him out to be. Ali would totally outclass tyson. Tyson should not be mentioned in the same sentence of ali.
XavierMarciano 1 year ago
@XavierMarciano Tyson knocks the number one contender out in round 6 and loses one round on two of the three judges scorecards when he's looking a little lazy and... what that means he'd get dominated by Ali?
capablemachine 1 year ago
What a chin on Pinklon 1:12 most jokers would have hit the canvas after that barrage from Tyson...
j3z72 1 year ago
Dont fuck with Angelo man
THOMASBANTON 1 year ago
I wish Tyson was a southpaw could have been even more dangerous in his prime If that's possible LoL LEAVE THIS MAN ALONE
snkammar2 1 year ago
@snkammar2 Tyson is a converted southpaw, actually. Once in awhile in his early fights, he would switch back to southpaw.
LedWhiskey69 1 year ago
@LedWhiskey69 TYSON HAD IT ALL THEN... EXCELLENT ELUSIVE LATERAL MOVEMENT AND RAPID FIRE COMBINATIONS. ALAS AFTER DISMISSING KEVIN ROONEY, IT ALL WENT AWOL.
bladrunner6 1 year ago
What's Angelo talking about I didnt see any headbutts
renegado454 1 year ago
@renegado454 To keep his man confident that he can still win
THOMASBANTON 1 year ago
leave em the fuck alone ,leave him alone, leave him alone ,god dammit leave this fucking man alone jesus christ lmfao
red4900st 1 year ago
lol Dundy was upset !
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crawhip7 2 years ago
check out angelo go ganxta on the fight doctor
historee 2 years ago
lol typical angelo...
(tyson vs berbick) angelo went sick at berbick's corner "wr the f*ck is the sponge"
satoori 2 years ago
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RapedByRepublicans 2 years ago
iv been boxing for a year now tyson i found was jus a master in the ring ,he never wore socks because he says made him feel like a warior in the ring,after i heard that i thought to myself he was realy smart he used him mind alot even when he punched he imaged this goin through there head out the other end,jus ashame whats happened to him but why his life is interesting no matter who you are how much you make in the end be all gone.fighters love the monny he loved fighting in his prime.
adeellime 2 years ago
hahahahaahah dundee is going all out LOL
Strezza90 2 years ago
Pinklon was wasted by this time.
Jorsalfar 2 years ago
h8 suger ray when he talks in any fights mainly tysons fights,always finks he knows him realy well what he'l do when hes never rite or jack shit
adeellime 2 years ago
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RapedByRepublicans 2 years ago
should check out my page got some rare clips of tyson in his days,il need send you a link for the dvd collection i jus bought it
adeellime 2 years ago
@adeellime there is a dvd collection of tyson's fights? i am working on my own technique and i would love to have that so i can slow some of the action down and watch the intricacies of tyson's style, with this choppy grainy youtube shit (no offense to pakistani, he is a saint for taking the time to upload these) but i would still love to have the dvd's send that to me if you would.
RapedByRepublicans 2 years ago
" Get away from this man " lol...
truthhitmanisback 2 years ago 15
lol "LEAVE HIM THE FUCK ALONE! JESUS CHRIST!"
stlucianrasta92 2 years ago 6
larry merchant such a biased commentator, gives no credit to Tyson!
ScorpioRye 2 years ago
@ScorpioRye
He is a dire commentator, end of story.
BruceinFalkirk 1 year ago
How Thomas survived that first round is beyond me. He musta had a chin of asphalt!
Jorsalfar 2 years ago 2
Tyson wasn't going for the body at all ?
shakeNbake815 3 years ago
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PINKLYN THOMAS knocked out MIKE WEAVER.
PINKLYN THOMAS beat a young tough TIM WHITHERSPOON.
PINKLYN THOMAS was never knocked down or knocked out before he fought TYSON.
and PINKLYN had a great record in the 1980's, so he was definately a great win for MIKE TYSON.
nevawrong 3 years ago
is pinklon not pinklyn
ideafix12 2 years ago
you suppose to write "IT'S PINKLON",
not "IS PINKLON",
OK smart ass?, lol
nevawrong 2 years ago
haaahaaa lol that was sooo funny agelo is angery as hell
Lordsadler22 3 years ago 2
Listen to Angelo Dundee! He's real pissed, lol!
Jorsalfar 3 years ago
One of Mike's best KOs, in my opinion. ANd A very good fight. That PInklon Thomas was a tough guy
Ertz7917 3 years ago 2
"Brutal first round." Pinklon Thomas was a class act, did his best against Tyson.
pegleyjr 3 years ago 10