In their primes who was more popular Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan?

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Yeah, if dude could have gotten 5-6 more years at peak level playing both sports. Man idk, it woulda been insane. I really can't wrap my head around it. Nike football has never really replaced Bo Jackson.

There is a generation of kids who have no idea about Bo Jackson. I was lucky to catch the end of his popularity, but unlucky to see the version of dude in Chicago and Anaheim.

If you can ever get shown around nike world headquarters...the Bo Jackson BUILDING?!?

 

[BrothaZay]

Tyson went to Tokyo and got his ass beat by a scrub

Jordan went to Barcelona and whooped the best basketball players in the world

The best players in the world were on his team..

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

The best players in the world were on his team..

LOL @ the thought of them angola brothas being the 'best in the world' that was an AWFUL reply

 

[YoungMoneyCashMoneyBoy]

I'm 49 years old and have lived on all 7 continents at various times in my life. I've been to the seven major hotspots of Africa: Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. I've traveled from Phucket to Nantucket. No athlete....I repeat.....NO athlete is as popular as Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

I've seen the Jordan logo carved out in the Antarctic snow and will upload the photo upon request.

I've seen parents in Zanzibar demand that their newborn, on his exit from his mother's vagina, be welcomed into this world wrapped in a Jordan jersey in hopes that his greatness rubs off on the newborn.

I've seen a Chilean man, with no money left to bet in a heated game of poker, bet his father's life instead, purely because he read on internet message boards that Jordan pulled a similar stunt.

Jordan's influence and popularity is long, both globally and temporally.

 

[Primetime21]

I've seen the Jordan logo carved out in the Antarctic snow and will upload the photo upon request.

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Upload it

 

[My Girl is Bow Legged]

The best players in the world were on his team..

and he beat their ass in scrimmage too

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

I'm 49 years old and have lived on all 7 continents at various times in my life. I've been to the seven major hotspots of Africa: Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. I've traveled from Phucket to Nantucket. No athlete....I repeat.....NO athlete is as popular as Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

I've seen the Jordan logo carved out in the Antarctic snow and will upload the photo upon request.

I've seen parents in Zanzibar demand that their newborn, on his exit from his mother's vagina, be welcomed into this world wrapped in a Jordan jersey in hopes that his greatness rubs off on the newborn.

I've seen a Chilean man, with no money left to bet in a heated game of poker, bet his father's life instead, purely because he read on internet message boards that Jordan pulled a similar stunt.

Jordan's influence and popularity is long, both globally and temporally.

 

[Newzz]

I'm 49 years old and have lived on all 7 continents at various times in my life. I've been to the seven major hotspots of Africa: Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. I've traveled from Phucket to Nantucket. No athlete....I repeat.....NO athlete is as popular as Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

I've seen the Jordan logo carved out in the Antarctic snow and will upload the photo upon request.

I've seen parents in Zanzibar demand that their newborn, on his exit from his mother's vagina, be welcomed into this world wrapped in a Jordan jersey in hopes that his greatness rubs off on the newborn.

I've seen a Chilean man, with no money left to bet in a heated game of poker, bet his father's life instead, purely because he read on internet message boards that Jordan pulled a similar stunt.

Jordan's influence and popularity is long, both globally and temporally.

 

[heisenburrr]

In China, schoolchildren ranked him with Zhou Enlai as the two greatest figures in twentieth-century history. The children knew Zhou because he helped create their Communist Revolution. They knew Jordan because he miraculously floated through the air as both an athlete and as a pitchman for American-produced advertisements for Nike shoes, which the children avidly followed on television.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

Jordan, definitely.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

I'm 49 years old and have lived on all 7 continents at various times in my life. I've been to the seven major hotspots of Africa: Angola, Soweto, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Botswana. I've traveled from Phucket to Nantucket. No athlete....I repeat.....NO athlete is as popular as Michael Jeffrey Jordan.

I've seen the Jordan logo carved out in the Antarctic snow and will upload the photo upon request.

I've seen parents in Zanzibar demand that their newborn, on his exit from his mother's vagina, be welcomed into this world wrapped in a Jordan jersey in hopes that his greatness rubs off on the newborn.

I've seen a Chilean man, with no money left to bet in a heated game of poker, bet his father's life instead, purely because he read on internet message boards that Jordan pulled a similar stunt.

Jordan's influence and popularity is long, both globally and temporally.

 

[Carlos Huerta]

This is probably a tie

 

[NormanConnors]

Tyson easily

 

[Whitty Hutton]

Anyone going with Jordan doesn't remember or wasnt around to understand that being the heavyweight champion of the world back then was top of the food chain of manhood.

In countries that don't even watch basketball they understood what the heavyweight champion of the WORLD meant especially since boxing was always the more global sport.

Mike Tyson was mos def more popular

Exactly. Tyson was meeting Winnie Mandela and having parades thrown for him by European and Asian cacs

 

[intruder]

Boxing had appeal during Tyson's heyday.

Yeas it did... just not to the level of basketball. Thats all I'm saying.

I'm 34 years of age and I recall growing up there were few athletes names I knew from the jump

• Pele
• Diego Maradonna
• Michel Platini
• Yanick Noah
• Borris Becker
  
• Michael Jordan
• Magic Johnson
• and a few others

To you in the U.S. the name Muhammad Ali may have meant something. But to many in most countries it simply did NOT. Dont get me wrong breh. I'm not saying boxing wasnt/isnt popular. It just doesnt reach the level of basketball and damn well not that of soccer, period.

You're just wrong. Thrilla in MANILLA...fights in zaire? Tyson lost his belt to a sellout crowd in japan. The kitchkos fill STADIUMS in germany....nah breh...

Heavyweight champ of the world especially if american is bigger than whatever you compare it to...especially then. Basketball wasnt even global like that until dream team 1 taught nikkas how to ball

#1 Wasnt that JORDAN's prime?
#2 Basketball leagues were all over the world(Italian leagues. Turkish leagues. Russian leagues) The world didnt stumble onto basketball in 1992

What kinda self centered thinking is that? Wasnt the reason for the DreamTeam the fact that the U.S.A. got their asses beat in the previous Olympics? And Jordan and Magic were well known around the world way before the dreamteam