Holy shit!! I was just going to post something on Bob Probert right now and I saw this.
Probert was a big, tough mean dude that fought over 300 fights in the NHL, and that's not including his minor league stats. He is unquestionably the greatest and most feared hockey fighter to ever lace on a pair of skates and is more of a legend in the minors than even Wayne Gretzkey was (I played for the Sue Saint Marines (Probert's minor league team) and a few minor league clubs in Canada and Europe for about 15 years). You want to talk about fighting and studying the craft you look to Probert, he was the master. Ask any historian or former player and Probert makes the top 3. His influence and aura was just as big as Mike Tyson's was in his prime in a hockey ring. Probert was also a notorious street fighter and practiced boxing for many years. There was a ton of stories from his minor league days about beating up three cops, and punching somebody through a car window and not even getting cut. He also was so wild that when he was with the Detriot Red Wings that they covered up stories with money. He punched out a stripper in a club in Canada who wouldn't serve him and Joe Kocur anymore drinks and she got payed off by Detriot. He was pulled over for speeding and went nuts and beat up two cops in the Detriot Windsor Tunnel. He has been in over 5 bad motorcycle accidents and walked away from all of them unscathed. In rehab in the early 90's, he threatened the life of former NFL madman Dexter Manley to leave a few other inmates alone and Dexter never bothered them again. When he got busted in 2004 for drug shit it took three tasers and SEVEN cops to subdue him (I've been tasered once and it fucking sucks!!) and when he was put into custody they had to put him in a lone cell because they feared for the inmates. When he came to he went nuts and started getting naked and shoving all his clothes down the toilet and began shouting "Red and White!! Red and White!!" This is the Detroit Red Wings chant. The guy went so nuts because he has ADHD, a hyper activity disorder and when you throw in drugs, the guy was just an animal. He had some crazy parties in Windsor, Ontario were he lives and he got busted for putting his wives brother thru a wall (charges were dropped of course) and his name is so known there, that when were disturbances at his home, there was never less than five cops that would show with gear ready for a war. And I know people personally who have been to some of his parties. He was banned from Canada for over 5 years and suspended countless times but the NHL would always bring him back because he was money and anyone and everyone who watched and played hockey throughout the mid 80's through the mid 90's knew the name Bob Probert. Sure, during the 2000's with the Chicago Blackhawks at the end of his career he sucked ass but he is and will always be the true NHL heavyweight champion.
Tyson would get beat simply because as crazy as Tyson was Probert was just as crazy but more tougher and I believe could take a better punch. But hell, this would be the ultimate street fight. Regardless what people may think of him on these boards, he was a real life badass who people were terrified of.
