Kimbo knocked the fuck out

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by TheEnforcer

Not a big shocker. Kimbo doesn't have the skillset most of those guys do.

Oh, and the Tyson quote is wrong. A person with better skills, patience and planning for a fight will win most of the time. They have a better ability to assess and see a persons skill strengths and weaknesses quickly and exploit them. Especially against a peron like Tyson. People like Tyson rely on quick overwhelming force and when you deny them that avenue with skill they either get frustrated and start making mistakes, tire out and start making mistakes or both. I'll take a fighter with patience and perserverence over a bombing brawler any day of the week and twice on sunday. Tyson was more of a brawler than a boxer and against lesser skilled boxers or those that were only marginally better boxers he was able to overwhelm them. But people who were smart about their strategy, had much better boxing skill, knew their and their opponents strengths and weaknesses well.... he bit their ears off for example. LOL

Tell that to Michael Sphinx...

Once upon a time, Tyson had all of that power, plus speed AND he could box. Then Gus Dematto died, and he got involved with Don King.

Mike was not equipped to deal with the level of celebrity and temptations that came his way. He got lazy and relied upon those big bombs.

Then he goes to Japan for a quick pay day against some unknown named Buster Douglas. Little training, up all night curing his yellow fever and allegedly even had a case of the clap going into the fight. Buster knocked him out, and he never really got back up.

When you're hurt, down and disoriented in life, you return to what you know and the values that were instilled into at a very young age as you hit bottom. For Tyson, this meant he turned into a dumbass street thug again.

I consider Tyson to be one of the greatest wastes of potential I've ever seen in my lifetime. He would've been the best of all time, but he had a 10 cent head.

Long answer, but I think we sorta agree here in that I also think all of the power in the world does not make up for a lack of smarts and heart.