chuckifubuck
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Jordan's aura is actually backed up by results. Mike lost every real adversity he ever faced.
Iron Mike's aura surviving for so long is one of the most impressive things in sports
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Jordan's aura is actually backed up by results. Mike lost every real adversity he ever faced.
Just goes to show you why smoke & mirrors in almost everything we do in society now is able to exist.
JesusFOREVER
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He was crazy
Bleedin Gums Murphy
All Star
I feel like Patrice summed it up.
I was too young but pre prison it seems he fought who was there to fight, post prison is a what if maybe if not going to prison would have changed what happened?
<<TheStandard>>
I Am A God
I’ve truly never seen anything like it.
And somehow he’s the only convicted rapist that people are willing to outright give a pass to.
People will say she lied & make all types of excuses.
If you ask Claudia Jordan, who was friends with the victim what she thinks of Mike Tyson, she doesn’t have anything pleasant to say about him and yet the rest of the world gives him a pass. It’s incredible.
yea dark aura. we could all sense the psychopath in him. mike enters the room its like 
i remember this one improv movie called black and white where he snapped on a room full of cacs. lol. he didn't even know it was a movie, he thought it was just a party (wutang invited him) and folks were chilling. robert was sweating bullets when they told him to approach mike and fukk with him.
i remember this one improv movie called black and white where he snapped on a room full of cacs. lol. he didn't even know it was a movie, he thought it was just a party (wutang invited him) and folks were chilling. robert was sweating bullets when they told him to approach mike and fukk with him.
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ReturnOfJudah
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It’s in the name
I think it’s safe to say he was the third best heavyweight of his era. Beat almost all the B guys and usually pretty easily.
At the end of the day he was 5’10 with a 71 inch reach. For perspective Floyd Mayweather is 5’8 with a 72 inch reach.
Evander Holyfield who was a cruiserweight was 6’2 with a 78 inch reach.
Once Mike lost his reflexes and motor he was never going to seriously reign at the top of the sport going into the 90’s as heavyweights were getting bigger and bigger. Hell I don’t even think he’s been a hard puncher for years. Holyfield ate his shyt and while Holyfield eats everyone’s shyt we’ve seen him wobbled. Mike didn’t faze him.
Coincidentally Floyd Patterson, Cus’s originally student also struggled late in his career because he was a very lean heavyweight.
At the end of the day Mike was everything people wanted in the heavyweight champion. Crazy and controversial outside the ring and Koing dudes inside the ring. I think it further helped that the next era of boxing were a bunch of 6’5 guys who would just paw at you with the jab for 10 rounds then knock you out when you go tired. If there would’ve been another preferably American killer right after Tyson he might not have been remembered so fondly.
At the end of the day he was 5’10 with a 71 inch reach. For perspective Floyd Mayweather is 5’8 with a 72 inch reach.
Evander Holyfield who was a cruiserweight was 6’2 with a 78 inch reach.
Once Mike lost his reflexes and motor he was never going to seriously reign at the top of the sport going into the 90’s as heavyweights were getting bigger and bigger. Hell I don’t even think he’s been a hard puncher for years. Holyfield ate his shyt and while Holyfield eats everyone’s shyt we’ve seen him wobbled. Mike didn’t faze him.
Coincidentally Floyd Patterson, Cus’s originally student also struggled late in his career because he was a very lean heavyweight.
At the end of the day Mike was everything people wanted in the heavyweight champion. Crazy and controversial outside the ring and Koing dudes inside the ring. I think it further helped that the next era of boxing were a bunch of 6’5 guys who would just paw at you with the jab for 10 rounds then knock you out when you go tired. If there would’ve been another preferably American killer right after Tyson he might not have been remembered so fondly.
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I think Tyson is an all-time great, but he also greatly benefited from sports/pop culture explosion that happened around his era.
And Quick fights and knockouts made him exciting to people who weren't attracted to long bouts or decisions.
the NBA rode the crest of that explosion... in regards to nba's lack of gravity, people are reachin for all kinds of straws like personality physicality etc etc... nall, The nba was able to neatly incorporate itself into pop culture of the time
pardon the tangent lol