Comments by "" (@SPIDERM0OSE) on "Francis Ngannou, Renan Ferreira Get Physical at First Faceoff for PFL's Battle of the Giants PPV" video.
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Modern era HW's?
Mike Tyson never competed in MMA, he was/is a boxer.
Its a different sport, as Ngannu found out, the hard way.
Tony Tucker, Larry Holmes & Frank Bruno are equally as tall as Ngannu & Mike Tyson disposed of them.
You cant carry MMA weight/bulk into a World Championship Boxing Ring vs a mobile HW who weighs around 220lbs like Tyson, Usyk, Holyfield, Ali, Frazier etc because if you cant get them outa there quick, their superior stamina & strength endurance will catch up to you.
Boxing is NOT MMA, MMA striking is NOT boxing, they are complete different sciences.
If you needed surgery done on yer brain or yer heart you wouldn't let a paramedic do it would you? No you would get a specialist, a surgeon.
Boxers are surgeons, MMAsts are paramedics.
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@ThanosDidTheRightThing
Who said anything about better?
But while we are on the subject, during Tysons era, the best, the toughest, the most talented & most dangerous fighters were all in boxing, there was no MMA, Boxing was THEE PREMIER combat sport, today its a shadow of what it once was, its a second division sport for posers to make easy money. Boxing today is Saturday Matinee material, pantomime violence for old grannies entertainment, what WWE/pro wrasslin used to be, good clean fun for old ladies & young children.
Fury is no better than his father was, go look what Henry Akanwande did to him.
Joshua is no better than Herbie Hide, go look what Bowe done to him, Joyce is no better than Gary Mason.
Wilder beat WHO?
In the lighter divisions there are one of two technically good boxers who MAYBE could compete in any era, but we will never know since the talent pool is so diluted we have never seen them truly tested like Sugar Ray Leonard was tested vs Benetiz & Vs Hearns, we just get these posers moving through the weights picking up vacant titles that mean NOTHING.
Primo Carnera was as big as the biggest HWs today, there has always been big HWs, just today the sport is so soft more of them can prosper.
Do you honestly think Andy Ruiz would have beaten Ray Mercer, Tommy Morrison or Razor Ruddock?
You're dreaming.
Its a soft era & boxing is going down the pan unless they ban MMA, otherwise it will be just another amateur feeder sport for MMA.
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@taylorgordon2696
Like Roy Jones, Tyson is a victim of his own success, he made good fighters look like they were nobodies.
Look what he did to Bruno, TWICE, then go look at Lennox Lewis having absolutely life n death with Bruno.
Oliver McCall was a sparing partner for Tyson, he KOd Lewis.
Tyson was a monster up until 1996 when Holyfield broke him in what was an EPIC, legendary fight & only Holyfield could have broken him in 1996, not Lewis, he didnt have the grit or the courage, not Bowe, he was spent after the Hoylfield trilogy, not Mercer, Moorer or anyone else, they just weren't in his league, just like Berbick wasn't.
Lewis cowered n his from him (& every other credible threat) until Tyson was 16 years removed from his first world title, had been beaten by Holyfield twice, & had been banned twice & had been in & outa prison twice. If you think Lewis could have lasted 5 rds with Tyson any time between 1985 & 1997, yer dreaming.
Mike Tyson was the REAL DEAL, until he met the REAL DEAL.
Thats 10 full years he was the GLOBALLY RECOGNISED, GLOBALLY UNDISPUTED BADDEST MAN ON THE PLANET, so bad in fact that had to create that phrase to describe him.
Who else has reigned 10 full years as the UNDISPUTED UNHOLY TERROR of the HW division?
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