Yep............do it in a heartbeat, would go straight in to get knocked out first punch, and then when I got out of the hospital I'd roll my somewhat rich, crippled azz to the bank.
Would you fight Mike Tyson in his prime for $1 million?
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Tyson in his prime vs me in mine. Yes. I would all day and would gladly get knocked out for the 1 million. Although I am not sure how they would determine if you took a dive and didn't just legitimately get knocked out within the first 10 seconds.
Spinks got $13.5 million or a little over $148k per second. Paid at that rate, I figure I could last 7 seconds for a cool mil.
I'll eat his heart
I'll eat his children
Hell no. Very real chance that a punch to the side of the head from him could (if not would) kill me.
Yeah, I think most people underestimate the punching power of a top level pugilist. Tyson is likely the hardest hitting ever. And perhaps overestimate their ability to take a punch.
And just a visual reminder of what he does to pros.
When I was younger, I would have said yes. Now that I am less full of piss and vinegar, nope.
I think you are very overestimating how much damage Tyson is going to do to you with one or two punches before you're out. Nobody is claiming they can take his punch, just that they'll recover from it.
Not one of Tyson's opponents was seriously harmed by him in a fight. More to the point, he never killed anyone in the likely hundred street brawls he was in, the women he hit, nor did he kill any of the old ladies he sucker punched to steal their purse as a teen. The idea that he would do permanent damage to you in a padded ring, with gloves, and a ref to stop it if somehow you didn't go down immediately, it is just super super small. If Tyson was capable of killing someone with a single punch...well, he would have done it over 50 pro fights, 50 amateur fights, and probably at least 100 street scraps.
And I don't think he was the hardest hitter ever, although he obviously carried great power. The truth is he was really great at delivering his punches from angles, and great combinations. His skill level is highly underrated...and once you got a taste of it, as you can see from that highlight clip, most of them (smartly) want nothing more to do with it. Not just because he hits hard, which he definitely does, but because you never saw it coming. Who wants more of that?
But I think there were several harder hitters than Tyson. But who cares, if he's the 5th or 10th or 20th biggest puncher who ever laced them up, that's still one of the most powerful ever considering all that have laced them up.
Tyson's opponents were all at least decent boxers. They weren't your average middle-aged out-of-shape LR poster.
I think you make a good point but I'd believe you more if you were a board certified neurologist
Lou pretty much covered it, but Tyson had a rare combination of power, speed, and uncanny precision that allowed him to knock guys out with one punch. Usually they were out like somebody flicked a switch, but a minute later were up and wondering when the bell was going to ring for the next round until somebody told them they'd been knocked out. There were definitely guys with heavier hands, but were bigger and slower. I remember watching George Foreman at 40 hit Bert Cooper so hard with a body punch that Cooper quit the fight. I think he broke his ribs with one body shot. That's power.
Yeah, I think a guy like Foreman was definitely a heavier single shot fighter. But I do kind of disagree with your depiction of many of his knockout, very few of Tyson's single punch knockouts put a guy to sleep. But they did leave guys like "where the heck did that come from and nope." He had A power for sure, but an A+ delivery system. As his technique fell off through a fight, his power alone wasn't really an eraser.
I mean, really that's well the case with most great punchers and knockout artists, but there have been a few guys like Foreman, Shavers, Marciano who had that kind of additional level heavy hands.
Um...how many of Tyson's first 20 or so fights did you watch?
JK, I get your point. But still, he beat up plenty of people outside the ring who were not professional fighters at all, including women and the elderly, and none of them were permanently damaged. Not saying it would be pleasant, but the chances of suffering serious longterm damage in a boxing ring with him are incredibly small.
Caveat...this is all on the assumption that he wants to knock you out, and fought as he always fought. If he WANTED to hurt you badly by keeping you upright and around...he probably could, but he never fought that way.
I’m not taking a beating for pocket change. No way, no how.
