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And he fought a great fight in Tokyo giving Tyson his first loss by a KO. tyson the bully got bullied himself. It didn't help Tyson any that he had fired his longtime trainer Kevin Rooney before the fight. Hooking up with Don King was the big mistake Tyson made.

Evander Holyfield and then Lennox Lewis did well against him. Lewis in particular gave him a good boxing lesson and punished him in the process, resulting in an 8th round KO.. Tyson in the 1980s was absolutely fearsome, knocking the vast majority of his opponents out in the first 3 or 4 rounds. If a fighter could weather the storm and had the reach advantage and superior boxing skills, Tyson would be in trouble as the article talked about his lack of reach. Joe Frazier had the same problem in his time; while he could brutalize an opponent with body shots and that lethal left hook, he had to get close in to connect and that made him vulnerable to a lot of punishment from taller opponents.

I wonder how Tyson would have fared against Earnie Shavers in his prime- no way that fight would result in a decision between those two sluggers.