Bozo_Casanova

Adding- Mike Tyson fought every other person who appeared in the ring rankings (and several who didn’t) from 1986-89 other than Tim Witherspoon, Adilson Rodrigues (lost to foreman before his shot), Dokes (lost to Holyfield and cocaine), Damiani (turned the fight down), and Gary Mason.

And a good day to you too, sir: First, as I think you know (or at least you should) that the rankings of the sanctioning bodies in that era essentially managed to fit the pleasure of the top promoters of the time. This is particularly true of Mike Tyson's promoter, Don King and then WBC President Jose Sulaiman, who was memorably described as Don King's "junior partner," and King had similar influence with the WBA and IBF, known then as the "Illicit Boxing Federation," where leadership basically sold rankings to competing promoters like the Duvas and others. SO when I said that Holyfield was the #1 contender, I was referring to The Ring rankings of 1988 and 1989, where he was indeed the top-ranked fighter behind Tyson. But that brings me to my core points, he was widely understood to have ducked Evander Holyfield from 88-90, and they probably ducked Witherspoon as well. to wit: 1) First, Witherspoon was plenty salty at 30. 2) Except styles make fights and Tyson struggled with guys like Tim Witherspoon 3) Bonecrusher Smith one of 3 very good fighters (along with Pinklon Thomas and Spoon) who matched up in interesting ways with each other, but I don't have to tell you that because styles make fights, the fact that he handled Tim Withersoon and Tyson handled him is not a reason to believe that Tyson would have handled Spoon. 4) Yes, because Don King was seriously interested in producing an on-the-level tournament to produce a true and enduring champion. Forged, as it were, of a hotter fire. First lets go back to the Ring rankings. There are two people in the top 10 the entire time from 1986-1991. One is Mike Tyson. The other is Tim Witherspoon who was also managed by Don King. That's not an accident. Witherspoon (assuming he was motivated and in shape) would have frustrated Tyson in the extreme with his defense and jab, tied him up, leaned on him, and not allowed Tyson to step under his punches. At the very least they go the distance and it would have been ugly. And that's why their mutual promoter Don King didn't make the match. And by thw way - Mike Tyson wasn't making these decision, as I'm sure you know very well, and the idea that Don King was protecting any fighter, let alone Tim Witherspoon is nonsense. Don King protected Don King. His fighters were victims, not clients.

Whoa, wrong thread buddy.

So like I was saying about the food in Miami

The food in Miami is incredible. The choice for dinner that night was La Mar by Gaston Acurio in the Manderin Oriental on Brickell Key, or El Carajo at the gas station next to the highway.

That place is great. I left my wallet there one time on a business trip the night before I was flying home, and once I got it back I had a lot of fun going around like “I left my wallet in El Carajo I gotta get it, I got, gotta get it.” But at the time it was very stressful.

So is Medicaid going to cover my Garcia Cambodia gummies or what

It’s an orgiastic feast for the senses. A festival of sights, sounds and colors.

Who’s getting commerce? Is Don Lapre available?

Let's examine the case: Evidence cited Tyson was much more aggressive in the first two rounds Tyson did not slip punches he saw on them Tysons punches seemed to lack power in the last 3/4 of the fight Tyson did not react to obvious openings Tyson did not slip punches he saw coming Tyson biting glove One possibility is that Mike Tyson participated in rigging the fight. The other possibility is that he's 58 years old, recently recovered from an ulcer, was wearing 14 oz gloves, a notorious biter, and can't do 8 full rounds of what they saw in training highlights used to hype the fight.

Actually yes. My daughter has met a Gideon. 2 years ago my daughter (no pics, you perverts) spent the summer driving the beer cart at the golf course near by. Made a killing in tips - $300+/day, but it was extremely hot and you have to hustle. One foursome on the course kept her busy for a couple of hours but didn’t drink alcohol - water, soft drinks, snacks, ice, etc. she probably served these guys 5-6 times during the round and they didn’t tip her once. Not cool but thems the breaks- or so she thought. She was refilling the cooler with ice next to the parking lot and one of these guys is on his way out to the car. He says, “hey wait, I’ve got something for you,” jogs over to his car, grabs something out and brings her … the Gideons New Testament and shares with her The Good News. So she’s got that going for her, which is nice.

OK, cool. Hook 'em!

I was thinking about this all weekend, and I should have put George Foreman on the list, too. I didn't have him on there because I stopped at 10 and it was a spur of the moment thing, but the truth is that if I was ranking them from most to least likely to beat prime Tyson in Tyson's prime, Foreman would be near the top. We can take Jack Johnson off, since he's such a distant figure and there's so little film of him (and even less on his contemporaries) it's hard to think about a comparison in concrete terms.

huh, too late now I guess

You like watching cock beating, do you?

If only there were some sort of professional association that could oversee and weed out unethical legal practitioners before they were appointed to the bench.

Exactly. The majesty of our legal system is that any very rich and powerful person can act with impunity.

Anatole France was right about the bread. Here's why that's a good thing. - Twicehorn

“May?”

Shot: chaser:

Ahem: And that’s exactly what happened

Agree

Middle Middle Middle Middle Depends on industry, job category, level of skill, etc.