@Professor 163491 wrote:
Thats the rumor….
Mike Tyson to face Youtube bare knuckles legend and recent lower echelon MMA fighter Kimbo Slice.
What’s your prediction if this one actually comes off?
Mike is 41, but is a former World Champion and could knock out a bull if it stood still. Even at his age he can do tremendous damage to an unskilled fighter.
Kimbo is a real street tough (like Mike was) and in a bare knuckles situation can hold his own. He is 34 so he has a few years of youth on Mike. He still has not faced a skilled MMA fighter, so who knows what he can do. Up to now he has strictly been a side show oddity.
The ONLY reason this fight is even remotely interesting is because Kimbo did square up with Ray Mercer a few months ago and choked him out. Ray was never a killer like Tyson, he is now 47 and to be frank I think he made no real effort and threw the bout. From a marketing standpoint this paper win helped to validate Kimbo and right now MMA is hot and he could have value if protected and if he fights hand picked opponents like Mercer.
If they do fight will Mike take a dive too? Thats another possibility if the money were right. Mike is basically living on fumes now and could use a few bucks.
Kimbo is prolly gonna win, 90% of fighting is fitness, and a fighter closer to his prime usually wins, Mike peaked 15+ years ago, Kimbo looks like he’s peaking now
About the Mercer fight, Ray Mercer put a hurtin on Lennox Lewis like nobody else did at the time, losing a 1 point decision that George Foreman and others, including myself thought he didn’t deserve to lose, Lewis’ head was swollen like a balloon, and Mercer was a much better amateur boxer than Tyson ever was(Olympic Gold medalist), and a tough ass army guy, i always liked him as a fighter, and the truth is, nobody wanted to fight him, even Tyson, Lewis had to fight him cuz it was a mandatory bout, it’s too bad for Mercer he got into all kinds of trouble and discharged from the military for his crack/cocaine addiction, and then contracted Hepatitis, he had all the right tools to be one of the all time greats
Tyson winning this fight would be a great story, but it’s not realistic, in his last fight he quit and said he had no more heart left, and he’s up on felony drug charges, obviously he’s hit rock bottom, he’s barely a top 100 heavyweight today, with no MMA experience, and almost 20 years past his best days
Expect something similar to Kimbo vs Mercer to happen here, Tyson is not gonna be much of a tougher opponent