The Mike Tyson who fought Spinks

[falco]

[SquidVicious]

Tyson was an overrated fraud. Built his career building up KOs against tomato cans too afraid to even throw a punch. Matched up against the worst ever heavyweight champs of any era (Berbick, Thomas, Bonehugger), allowed to gain glory by beating up an ancient Larry Holmes and a blown up skinny fat 205 lb Michael Spinks in the most fraudulent Fight of the Century ever and then got absolutely schooled by a journeyman Buster Douglas who never beat anyone of significance and then out-bullied by Evander Holyfield before revealing himself to be a quitter and coward against Holyfield II and Lennox Lewis before proving he was always overrated by getting the snot beaten out of him by Danny Williams and finally quitting once more against Kevin McBride. Every fighter who wasn't afraid of Tyson and took his shots either went the distance or beat him. Once his invincible mystique was exposed as a lie by Douglas, he proved himself nothing more than a bully who gives up at the first sign of resistance.

[Alucard]

Late 80s/very early 90s Foreman would have clobbered any version of Tyson, for not talking about the 70s young prime one, would punch him off the planet, slow my ass... Now, Tyson was great admittedly, would have beat Ali easy, but clearly not the greatest (no one is) and massively overrated, he had a short peak and strange career... Against 45-47yo super slow Foreman yeah, a not shot Tyson would take an easy UD probably, but all the other versions are a nightmare for him, including the fresh comeback one...

[T-REX007]

Ali handles Tyson no problem, Tyson didn't have the heart of Frazier and Ali would have gotten inside of Tyson's head and had him beat before the fight,
Holmes in his prime puts him away too, for those who don't know boxing and think Marciano would have been destroyed by Tyson watch Ali's interview with Cosell where he says he didn't know if he could have beaten Marciano, and that he thought Marciano was tougher than Frazier- said Marcianos punches hurt and he was an old man ....
Louis was 215-220 when Marciano put him away, so the idea that he couldn't handle a big, elusive, skilled heavyweight is ridiculous ( yeah, Louis was old, but still dangerous and skilled)

[Conker]

Late 80s/very early 90s Foreman would have clobbered any version of Tyson, for not talking about the 70s young prime one, would punch him off the planet, slow my ass... Now, Tyson was great admittedly, would have beat Ali easy, but clearly not the greatest (no one is) and massively overrated, he had a short peak and strange career... Against 45-47yo super slow Foreman yeah, a not shot Tyson would take an easy UD probably, but all the other versions are a nightmare for him, including the fresh comeback one...

So a prime 70s Foreman would punch Tyson off the planet and Tyson would beat Ali easy....Yet Ali actually destroyed a prime 70s Foreman

Great logic 

[Simple Simon]

Tyson was an overrated fraud. Built his career building up KOs against tomato cans too afraid to even throw a punch. Matched up against the worst ever heavyweight champs of any era (Berbick, Thomas, Bonehugger), allowed to gain glory by beating up an ancient Larry Holmes and a blown up skinny fat 205 lb Michael Spinks in the most fraudulent Fight of the Century ever and then got absolutely schooled by a journeyman Buster Douglas who never beat anyone of significance and then out-bullied by Evander Holyfield before revealing himself to be a quitter and coward against Holyfield II and Lennox Lewis before proving he was always overrated by getting the snot beaten out of him by Danny Williams and finally quitting once more against Kevin McBride. Every fighter who wasn't afraid of Tyson and took his shots either went the distance or beat him. Once his invincible mystique was exposed as a lie by Douglas, he proved himself nothing more than a bully who gives up at the first sign of resistance.

Thats a pretty accurate summary.

[Disgusted]

Ali handles Tyson no problem, Tyson didn't have the heart of Frazier and Ali would have gotten inside of Tyson's head and had him beat before the fight,
Holmes in his prime puts him away too, for those who don't know boxing and think Marciano would have been destroyed by Tyson watch Ali's interview with Cosell where he says he didn't know if he could have beaten Marciano, and that he thought Marciano was tougher than Frazier- said Marcianos punches hurt and he was an old man ....
Louis was 215-220 when Marciano put him away, so the idea that he couldn't handle a big, elusive, skilled heavyweight is ridiculous ( yeah, Louis was old, but still dangerous and skilled)

He was 37 so not that old.

[Disgusted]

So a prime 70s Foreman would punch Tyson off the planet and Tyson would beat Ali easy....Yet Ali actually destroyed a prime 70s Foreman

Great logic 

I don't know, Frazier and Norton always gave Ali trouble and Foreman bout killed them both real quick. It all comes down to fight styles. Plus I wouldn't say Ali destroyed George, he just let him punch him self out at the expense being hit a few hundred times.