In many fights that he was in, Mike Tyson was usually the smaller guy. One thing you always see see in his opponents is the look of utter disbelief as in "yaani kamenichapa!! I can't believe it." These were highly accomplished boxers not just random guys picked up on the streets yet the kichapo they received from Mike Tyson make them look so ordinary, it must have been extremely humiliating.

Like McDoba and Maichblack have said watching Mike Tyson was pure joy.

Watch these highlights:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2RxpsS639I

Mike was a brawler and not a boxer....in my opinion,besides Mohammed Ali,the best pound for pound fighter has to be Sugar Ray Leonard (By coincidence,Ray seriously whipped Floyd's father way back in 78).His greatest fights were the rematch against Roberto Duran,Thomas Hearns and his win against Marvelous Marvin Hagler.No doubt the best move, stop, and mug kinda boxer.

For those who were not born then,you can watch the entire classic here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGbP1lwLYSE

That's true but there was no colour in Mike's fightsRemember this one day he knocked out some one in 93 seconds.Fans were streaming in long after the fight had ended...BK!

There is a guy [Name eludes me] Tyson "refused" to knock out for a couple of rounds. This guy was the "baddest" before Tyson came into the picture. I believe he had been unbeaten before Tyson. The fellow trash talked Tyson before the match saying he ain't ish and has never fought any one of his quality bla bla bla. Wacha the day of the fight came! The guy got a beating! Tyson was landing some heavy punches but not heavy enough to knock him out. It was clear he didn't want to knock him out yet. Then in the 7th or 8th round the warrior in him [Tyson] woke up!! Sema sledge hammer!! Tyson started landing some out of this world blows. The minute they started, you knew it was all over. I think that is one of the several boxers who retired after a Tyson beating!

These two fighters met Tyson on his way down, he had become irresponsible, no discipline in training, the rape case, jail term and the rest!!!

Guka you are are right in a way. I remember watching a documentary about Marvin Hagler and how left the US to go live in Italy after his last fight. Those were classic boxing matches.

But the reason everybody will always remember Mike Tyson is the raw anger, energy and passion he brought into the war, brawl, fight in the ring. It was not a sport for him to score points, mtu alikuwa amemkosea, amemtukana amemwonyesha madharau and he was there to sort him out. He was angry, he was obsessed, he was crazy and the fans felt it. Even though he was a champion people still felt for him as if he was an underdog and that is what made it so exciting to watch him beat up big guys.

Tyson's speed and punching power makes him fan favourite for many including me. The 80's Tyson was a joy to watch then and even now.

However, the truth is Tyson only faced 2 serious boxers; Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis and unfortunately both kicked his a**e big time. He however, popularised boxing worldwide and created pay per view as we know it today.

Tyson was never a boxer, however, he could have gone well in todays MMA.

That is a joke right? So there was nver a serious boxer when Tyson was at his prime?

He was the soungest ever WBC champion and became the first heavyweight to own all three major belts – WBA, WBC, and IBF – at the same time

Its free info on the web if you want to confirm, another reason why Tyson was such a huge success was because he came out when Heavyweight boxing was crying for a serious fighter. The early victims were The Trevor Berbick's, Tony Tubbs etc, all journeymen. Larry Holmes was a serious boxer, but he had to come out of retirement for his fight with Tyson. Then you have the Frank Bruno's, the Buster Douglas's (who defeated him) etc

Feel free to post any serious boxer apart from the 2 I named above that Tyson defeated.

This takes nothing from him as the manner of his victories were trully awesome, he is without a doubt the baddest man on the planet, but fact, he never won against a serious opponent.