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I'd say he's the most infamous boxer that ever lived, but the greatest is a stretch by far.
Who would win out of Prime Tyson and Prime Buster Douglas?
Oh, wait...
ring magazine has him ranked as the top 5 best hws of all time the article is as follows, "tyson is up there will ali, frazier, and foreman we even think he hits harder and more accurate then foreman" now thats a quote. and i dont know how they put foreman ahead of tyson but ok.
Tyson was indeed exciting, but that doesn't put him anywhere near GOAT status.
Put him up against:
Foreman
Ali
Frazier
Louis
Norton
Liston
et. al
and he doesn't come close.
Tyson made it a point to dodge OLD Foreman.
I would too, Foreman's build and skills were a nightmare for Tyson.
Hagler
I don't think he was best
if he never went 2 prison tho he would have been
why is boxing the only sport where people don't accept the the rule that athletes get better every generation?
better training, diet, techniques, are people really going to argue that a HW fighter from the 1940's would really have troubled a prime Tyson or Lennox Lewis?
Only a complete idiot would think that HW fighters from the modern era have better technique than the ones from the 40's and 50's
im pretty sure training techniques have improved in all sports over the past 60 years..