Mike Tyson Vs Tony Tucker Part 6

prime tyson trying to unify the heavyweight division

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[edoardo824]

MIKE TYSON FOREVER

[edoardo824]

MIKE TYSON FOREVER

[kingkevinjoy]

watching tyson with rooney is like watching divinci moulding clay. tyson had soooo much raw talent that rooney was working to develop into a legendary fighter. Its a damn shame watching that talent being thrown out the window with the decisions tyson made after the spinks fight.

[whutbrush]

@theMadH8r : No it wasn't. Waiting until Tyson fired Rooney, and catching him after only fighting 11 rounds in 4 years (thanks to the prison exile) were Holyfield's blueprints.

When he was on, there wasn't a "blueprint." Even those who used it, when Tyson had the right corner, managed to lose 11 or 12 rounds anyway.

After the fight with Spinks, he fired Rooney and went with Camp King. You can immediately see the difference in his next two fights before Douglas.

[whutbrush]

@RGdood : Big tough jack ass on the internet knows how to swear. Ooooh.... Since you don't know how to hold an intelligent conversation, I'll just assume you are a dumb kid and let it slide.

[RGdood]

@whutbrush oh shut thE fuck up.

[whutbrush]

During the last 2 rounds of the fight, Tyson started throwing fast, hard left jabs that set up other punches. This was the sign of a young fighter still learning to out-box the taller, lengthier fighters. He still had a lot of room for improvement, and Rooney would have taken him to immortality.

Going with King, partying, not taking fights seriously, etc., destroyed what would have been the greatest Heavyweight of all-time.

[MikeHL78]

@tblacc11 Could be. However, he didn't use his right hand at all for most of the fight, so whatever the timing is on when it happened I'd be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt about the hand being broken. It would have been interesting to see what would have happened without the injury -- but it did happen and Tucker lost.

[tblacc11]

@MikeHL78 or maybe that was his excuse for his ensuing and inevitable loss

[MikeHL78]

@Jorsalfar Tucker said himself in a 2008 interview that he fractured his right hand in sparring a few days before, also saying that since he wasn't a Don King fighter if he asked for a postponement he felt he would be blackballed -- so he went for it even with the injury. He said the uppercut he briefly staggered Tyson with in the 1st broke the right hand worse and he basically fought without it after that. You're right -- with two good hands Tucker may have won this one.

[FijneWIET]

@MilkyLicker3587 oh I assumed a frontal lobotomy