He was not knocked out cold but I can assure you he would not have been able to get up. That is a textbook knock out. Broken jaw and 2 teeth knocked out with a mouth guard. Dude was knocked with a hydrogen bomb to the side of the face.
That version of Mike Tyson was literally unfair. He was so far ahead of the competition. His combination of speed, power, and accuracy might still be unmatched to this day. 😤
Tillis, Smith, and Tucker took him 12 rounds. Sure he won solid decisions but he didn't steam roll them. In his prime. He was amazing, but not the boxing god so many make him out to be. A good chin. Able to tie. Some footwork. A good jab. Not being scared of him. Survive the first 4 rounds and Tyson, while power puncher dangerous, sort of shut down a bit.
@@scottg6754 No one's invincible every fight has two Men in it. One can have a bad day and still win, or a great day and still lose. At his best I'd take Mike against any HW champion in history at their best. I believe he'd have far more wins than losses under those conditions. Maybe not a "boxing God" but certainly at least Demi/God status.
@@JohnDoe-xl1ig way out of his prime against Lewis. He fought some good ones like RUDDOCK, FRANK BRUNO, Just because most of his opponents weren’t as good as him doesn’t mean he didn’t really fight anyone
He was a complete boxer- especially back then. People usually only think of his bombs that he threw, but you watch him bobbing and weaving, ducking his opponents shots. It's great the way he tied his defence directly to his offence. You threw a cross at his head, he would duck it, step in and hit you with a sledgehammer to the liver like he did his opponent here. Mike was very hard to hit and he hit very hard.
Perfect analogy bro! Pretty much sums it up! If you’re old enough to have seen him live when he was still disciplined and hungry, you know how great he was.
Glad you mentioned the bob and weave, as I was going to do it otherwise. The video, as it always is with Tyson, is fixated on his power. I get it, he was explosive and devastating, and knockouts sell tickets. However, power isn't a rare commodity in heavyweight boxing, and plenty of guys hit just as hard or harder. What made Tyson special and one of the all time greats was his pairing that power with that bob and weave defense.. I encourage people to rewatch this video and his early fights and focus specifically on the bob and weave. His instincts and speed with it make it mezmerizing to watch. It's what allowed him, despite almost always having a major reach disadvantage, to get inside, and stay inside, to work the body. He always started with a few rib cracking hammer shots to the torso which got the opponent to instictively drop his elbows for protection, and soon to be regretted, his hands by extension. (He actually dropped Johnson with one of those shots in this fight. Just listen to the sound of early body shots as they land. Damn.) That is what set up those iconic kill shot hooks to the head. The reason Tyson was so mediocre later in his career was entirely due to his abandoning the bob and weave defense, and relying solely on his power which he still possessed. Turns out it's much harder to use that power when the other guy is teeing off on your head as you're trying to get close enough to unload it. Side note... I love the bit in the beginning about no sparring partners being willing to get in the ring. Those kinds of stories were nonstop as he was coming up, but were mostly fake. It was brilliant strategy by Tyson's team. They crafted an image of Tyson in the media that instilled real fear in his opponents. As a result, most of them had lost before they even got in the ring. Spinks wanted none of it! Conversely, not having that fear is what gave Holyfield, the only boxer who I think legitimately owned Tyson, the advantage. I very much miss the days of Tyson and Holyfield, which was the last great era of heavyweight boxing and storied rivalries, when being the heavyweight champion of the world still mattered and made you famous. Doubt we'll ever see an iconic rivalry like Ali-Frazier or Tyson-Holyfield, the kind that drew non-boxing fans to the sport, in boxing again.
Tyson in his prime was like a freight train coming at you at 400 mph. Those hooks and uppercuts of his were brutal, and in many cases he only needed to land once.
Ive always been curious in knowing if havinf him hypnotized by his coach was one of the main factors of tyson winning! He was mentally ready to kill his opponents with No fear!
@@davekennedy6315 must be because he just fell out love with the sport and kept going knowing hes not 100% in it mentally. He sure loves his pigeons...you can go hours having a conversation with him about his birds
One thing NO ONE can take away from Michael Jack Johnson? The ONLY man to sport an "AFRO AND MULLET" combo at the same time. For that reason alone, MJJ goes down as a legend
@sisuphos He's the only person nobody would tell he can't wear both at the same time. If he wore a tutu no one (in their right mind) would open their mouth
He was the first and only heavyweight that could move like a welterweight and have destructive power in both hands. His defense was impregnable because he wants to eat your heart. The most vicious and ruthless that ever lived. He is from Jack Johnson's cloth. He will eat your children and praise be to Allah.
This arguable. I would also say Mike is the most technical because he had the most disadvantages, yet made them seem non-existent. He was shorter than most heavyweights, he had short reach than most heavyweight, and so on, but he was so good he can get in close without getting hit, and if he couldn't reach them, he would make it so he would.
I'll never understand how anyone was convinced to get into the ring with that man. When you combine that type of talent with that type of desire, it's almost unstoppable!
@theinformationbomber7102 I'm talking about today's fighters don't train as hard. It seems like a part time thing to them. And I know for a fact they all fuckin. No more old school trainers standing guard outside they hotel rooms to keep the ladies away. Every fighter today is a whole tier below the fighters of old.
Man he was so angry and mad training staying off the fifth leg and dude despite being tall had no business in there damb dude earned his check the hard way
Tyson appeals to our primal instincts. The sheer impressiveness.The caged animal let out into a ring. The freakish power, the unnatural speed. No other heavyweight has stirred such emotions.
@@juliandenormanville5225 mike only mentioned ali among the greats when ali was actually beside him, like on talk shows, out of respect, outside of that never mentioned ali among the greats only put Dempsey & Lewis a place higher than himself, you can quote him on this
Seeing Mike in his prime, when it was actually happening was a gift. It can't be truly appreciated without all the hype and anticipation that came with the Iron Mike Tyson Show............ Goodnight!!!!!!!!!!!
We will never see this ever again. Watching Iron Mike was a once in a lifetime experience. Can't be reproduced or replicated. Like watching Jordan win 6 titles.
I'm straight up binge watching all these Tyson videos. It's *inconspicuousssssss*. There seems to be some slow people thinking I don't know how to use the word. It's something that tyson himself said 🤦🏿♂️. Lol
It's one of the best orchestrations of a liver shot I've seen. Due to human physiology, a direct hit to the liver will automatically place the recipient in a horizontal position. You can see how Johnson went straight to the canvas clutching his abdomen. He may have ruptured his liver actually.
Very. Very painful. I’ve been kicked and kneed in the head, had my body twisted in the wrong direction every which way in BJJ. Getting slugged in the liver is unreal. It takes one inhale and your liver tells your brain “nope, without me we die” and you just shut down.
That quote of his is actually pretty misleading - "punch" sounds like a deceptively light word for his stuff. I've been punched in the face in a fight. Generally it's not that bad. But Mike Tyson didn't punch people though - he smashed them, like a wrecking ball😂
@@daddylee4216 Man that's your sh!t you deal with it idgaf. All I was saying in my 1st post is I'm glad I lived in an era when I could see both Tyson and Ali.
this punch always stood out to me as the most terrifying shot Tyson ever landed. Throwing his weight into a right hand that lands flush on the cheek. Poor bastard lived out my childhood nightmare
I was maybe 11 or 12 when my dad introduced me to Mike Tyson on HBO so I seen most of these fights and it was just overwhelmingly fun to watch . My dad never cared about nor watched sports but always told me that this kid was very special . Mike was a great role model for us kids knowing where he came from and what he accomplished before he got into drugs during the 90's. My Dad always said he's a very smart kid as well as a nice guy out of the ring and don't let the way he talks fool you into thinking he's dumb . RIP Dad ...
If Ali took that final head punch, he’d also go down like a sack of potatoes. Mike has to be one of the hardest punchers in boxing history. But what made him so devastating was his speed combined with his power. And in his prime, he was able to avoid his opponents punches in large measure.
Let me try! I clipped my chin on a brick windowsill on the way down from a 25 foot fall- to quote my surgeon, "most people break their mandible in two. You broke yours in about twenty two". Honestly though the smashed jaw was nothing against the fact that my jaw was too damaged for dental work so I had my jaw wired shut with nearly all of my back teeth- upper and lower- shattered, with the fragments in a constant state of grinding against exposed nerves... that was the end of my parkour career...
I could watch that slo-mo starting at 2:18 over and over.. The first punch Mike didn't even know was coming.. dodged it.. the second he saw and he moves almost instantly under it to deliver the rib shot.. Unbelievable form..
I'm glad Cus got to see this prodigy of his grow into a real professional and, as he was already in his latter 70's, he went out on top. It's an amazing gift to give someone, TY Mike.
Sonny Liston knocked out Wayne Bathea’s teeth (seven total) and cracked NINE with a single jab!! That’s 16 teeth destroyed with ONE punch! Yeah, I wouldn’t want to lace gloves and step in the ring with these guys.
Mike Tyson has really lived the hero's journey through and through. From his harsh beginning, to his rise, to his eventual fall and finally atonement and realization of truth.
For a long time, Mike was considered by many as a brute, strong and vicious with no talent, away from the fighters like Ali, Frazier or Sugar Ray Robinson. Nowadays we can see how technical and intelligent he was on the ring.
For a long time by who? Tyson was just a great pressure boxer who happened to have enormous power. But he was a boxer not a fighter and was appreciated as such. People who don't understand boxing don't know the difference. So your comment says nothing substantial.
I read a book about Cus, and he said something about how the Peekaboo style was frowned upon by other trainers at the time because it was so different. I still think a lot of trainers look down on it, since we haven't really seen anyone with a similar style since Tyson, save for maybe David Tua, who was kind of similar. We also haven't seen many heavyweights under 6'2 in a long time. Most of today's heavyweights are like 6'7 240 lb giants. I would have loved to see how someone like Tyson or Smokin Joe would have faired against The giants that we have today.
Yeah, I don't think anyone who knew what they were watching ever thought that. People who never actually saw him fight might have said that, but those people were nitwits.
His Bob and weave was second to none, it’s great to have good power and wreck people but look at his fights that went several rounds and see if u see any damage on mike, he could avoid punches just as good as he could throw them, he is the greatest ever.
Shit was murder ! - just seeing that last strike in slow motion and Johnson head twisting in ANYTHING but slow motion even at those frame rates was crushingly brutal.
Most people don't give enough recognition to Mike Tyson's defense and that's one of the things that made him so great he had awesome punching power but his defense and peekaboo Style made him incredibly hard to hit
One of those fighters was Andrew Golota of Poland who went 2 rounds with Tyson and had a concussion, a broken cheek bone, and a herniated disc after the end of just 2 rounds. He wisely decided to end the fight otherwise, he may have gotten killed for real!
Mikes best offense was putting fear into his opponent before they stepped into the ring. When Mike fought Spinks to unite the title you could see the fear in Spink it was visable to the ringside fans Spinks was a beaten fighter before Tyson threw a punch. I was so proud of Douglas fighting for his mom who had passed away a couple weeks before the fight he was determined to win he had no fear of Tyson including the Englishman they brought it to Mike and Hollyfield also they took the kong out of the king.
One of Mike's downfalls was when he stopped moving his head(2:12) like these early years. Once he started feeling himself a bit he just went out and head hunted without the defensive movement. This version of Mike was virtually unbeatable. He was Hungry, and disciplined.
I think he is much smaller but faster. He is older age like fighting holyfield or lennox is bigger but slower. Also when he is younger he is do a lot of body shot.
It's maybe not just a matter of headhunting too much but also a matter of biological aging. I noticed this with video games. Now that I'm in my 30s, I can't just run in and rely on my superior reflexes in Counter-Strike the way that I did when I was 16.
tyson's downfall is when he faced a well conditioned top notch heavyweight who was not afraid of tyson. We are talking about James Buster Douglas who administerd a savage 10 round beating on tyson and laid him out cold. Tyson was exposed as a beatable fighter and it was all downhill from there. The other top heavyweight of the time Evander Hollyfield dominated tyson after tyson finally was forced to fight hollyfield after running from him for severa years. Finally Lennox Lewis beat the hell out of tyson and put him out of business for good. tyson was a paper lion that never defeated a truly great heavyweight.
@@Rayburn58 Everything written about Tyson is either totally for or totally against. Yours falls in the latter. It's selective choice of facts, while omitting anything that contradicts your position. And I think you know it too.
It was like a scene straight out of a video game. Unbelievable power! Despite being down for what seemed like an eternity, MJJ's resilience was on full display as he got up like a boss. This is why Tyson is a legend! 💥 #MikeTyson #Legendary #Boxing"
I'm blessed to have been in the era of Mike Tyson to have seen him fight in real time from beginning to end. People were lucky to have seen Muhammad Ali during that era as I am lucky to have seen Tyson in my era!
This man's defense is unfucking real. Anyone who's been in a fight knows how easy it is to be hit, particularly in the head. And here Mike is dodging, FLAWLESSLY, as if he were on Ultra Instinct. My GAWD
@@yourheadisnogood When he fought Buster, Cus had been dead for a while and he had fired his main trainer Teddy Atlas. On Don Kings instructions. He fought Buster and he had so little respect for his boxing that Mike didn't even train at all for that fight. Just made weight and tried to knock his head off, when that didn't work he got tagged by some nice counter punches which was odd for Mike and lead to his first defeat. But Mike beat himself in that fight. Everyone knows that. If he had shown up 100% Buster would have been out in 2 rounds like everyone else.
Incredible power, precision and accuracy. Give Johnson credit, he had the courage to get up after the first knockdown when many others would have stayed down and allowed themselves to be counted out, but he was totally defenceless against the final right that would have knocked out a bull.
@Steve Russel maybe, but you have to admire a fighter who, while lacking ability and knowing that he is being used as a sacrificial lamb, still has the courage, integrity and pride to try his best and get up when he is knocked down.
@@ahshaadnichols7423 that is my point. It would have made sense for him to stay down from the first knockdown. He must have known when he was down that there was no escape and no chance of winning, but his pride and determination got him to his feet. Foolish maybe, but undeniably very brave and honest.
A lot of emphasis is always placed on the devastating impact of Mike's attacks, and rightly so, but I'm always impressed with his *duck and weave* game! 😳 A guy his size shouldn't be that fast. Dude was the whole package!
In this chanel they make videos with atlest 3 decades old clips., but everything look amazing in it so precise and perfect , finished product Weldone " BLTV classic " 👏🏼👏🏼
