Tommy Morrison dead at 44

Tyson= bum......Nuff said...

 

Yeah D'Amato made him but he would have always had to have been one of those guys that you'd have to babysit. He really never had anyone to fight during his whole run. I would have like to have seen him fight some true competition before he got knocked out in Tokyo. I would have like to have seen him fight Lennox Lewis or Holyfield or Moorer in his hey day.

 

Yeah and he got that from Joe Frazier. He would move his head constantly and set up that uppercut that would almost decapitate a man.

 

Its a shame this got off Tommy and how GREAT Tyson was ...Lets remember Tommy....

Thank you sir!! Your fights will be remembered !!!!

 

Yeah we really need to start a "Man Mike Tyson was the most awesome boxer of all time and I love him and want to discuss him constantly on a Steelers fan site" thread. LOL.

 

Tyson was a huge boxing historian and he mimicked Liston, Frazier, Patterson, and Louis. He used to watch Jack Dempsey fights constantly. I also LOVE old school boxing! I've watched the Rumble in the Jungle probably 20 times. I also love the Ali/Wepner fight. It wasn't historically significant from a boxing standpoint but it spawned Rocky which is one of my favorite franchises ever. If you've never seen We Were Kings I HIGHLY recommend it!

 

Yeah Cinderella man is GREAT. We Were Kings is a documentary about the buildup to the Rumble in the Jungle and it's really awesome. It's got a lot of backstage footage and behind the scenes stuff and shows what a culturally significant event it was. I've watched it a few times. It's about 14 or 15 years old I suppose.

 

I watched a doc once about the Joe Louis-Max Schmelling fight on like pbs or something and it was really good. It was talking about how Schmelling was literally crying out in pain with every punch that Louis was hitting him with. Boxing was ok during the Oscar De La Hoya days but it's never got back to where it was in the 70s and 80s really.

 

It's on Neflix. Dang it I just checked and it's actually not on there anymore. The actual name is When We Were Kings.

 

88??? I've never heard about that as far as I know. I think the rules are quite a bit different though aren't they?

 

Yeah but I think of the "REAL" Tyson as PRE Douglas. Once he was asked after one of his many "comeback" fights if he thought this was the end of his career and he said "my career ended in Tokyo'. But in a way the Tyson that was pre Douglas wasn't the real Tyson. He had built this persona that he was invincible but once he got exposed it was like it all was downhill from there. It's the classic bully story ya know? After he got KO'd he then started saying all that crazy stuff about Lennox Lewis and fighting dirty against Holyfield and telling another fighter's manager who was complimenting his fighter that he was "gonna get him killed" and then got his butt kicked by that very same guy. Ali is awesome to me because when he lost he would go back and avenge that loss. Tyson didn't do that. I still loved watching him in his hey day though.

 

Yeah! BIG TIME! Who was it that Tyson hit so hard that he actually went vertical and his feet came down OUTSIDE the ropes and his jaw looked like it was on TOP of his head! LOL. Maybe it was Tucker but I don't think that's right. He was some up and coming bum but it was still a VICIOUS hit!