Date: 3:06 am Mon Aug 21, 1995 Number : 112 of 200 From: Papa Bear Zalapski Base : Sports To : Algorhythm Subj: Re: Tyson vs. McNeeley
A> I'm impressed with Tyson. He's got fantastic power and he's a smart A> aggressive fighter, however you will see that other people are restating my A> point. His accuracy was off yesterday and even he said it himself..
Hard to tell... most boxers spend a round "feeling" each other out and warming up.. not these guys.. Tyson has got POWER, he is agressive but he's very far from being a smart fighter. He hasbeen in trouble several times because he essentialy has very little defense. He often throws punches with a foot or two off the ground. He leaves himself wide-open sometimes, and his over-aggressiveness can lead to being easily counter-punched. Of course he has massive power which always overwhelme his opponents. But the Buster Douglas fight, the early rounds of the Larry Holmes fight and the amateur loss to Henry Tillman in the U.S. Box-offs shows he can be beaten by a boxer with a reach advantage and an excellent jab.. People don't realize Holmes was doing very well before he got cocky, came inside and got hammered. If anyone can beat Tyson its probably Bowe. Hollyfield might be able to simply because he is an amazingly skilled boxer with a phenomenol will. But we'll see, hard to say how good Tyson is off of 90 seconds..