Ali-Tyson Fantasy Match: The Outcome
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Ali and Tyson are two of my favorite Boxers, and they are two of the most loved, hated, critiqued, analyzed, and known athletes that this world has ever seen.
Ali would win by Unanimous Decision or Split Decision
Ali's speed and footwork dazzled his opponents, which virtually made him unhitable. I personally believe that if had not been banned for three years, and also not have been so overconfident, he would have never lost a fight. To me, he lost all of fights on his own accord. Not to take anything away from Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Leon Spinks, and Trevor Berbick, but Ali was either too confident to think that he could lose(Frazier, Norton) and/or way past his prime against opponents in better fighting stages(Holmes, Spinks, Berbick). Viewers do not forget that at this point Ali was in is physical best in terms of boxing skills. His footwork was at the best we had ever seen it to be, which was his mode for offense and defense. He would have danced and pranced around Tyson for the early rounds, and then settled down to set up counters for Tyson for the middle rounds, and either go for the kill in the late rounds, or continue to wait for his advances and counter.
Tyson would win in the mid rounds or late rounds by KO.
Tyson would have to go to the body to wear Ali down, due to Ali's elusivness with his upper body. Sonny Liston was technically a better boxer than Tyson, but could hardly get a hit on Cassius(as he was then known). True Tyson would slip alot of Ali's jabs, but Ali was so fast with his punches that Tyson would have ate alot of them also, just like Joe Frazier in their 3 fights. Tyson does have a strong chin, as seen in the Lewis fight, but I believe that Ali would have frustrated him with his mobility, jabs, and ring wit. If he had worn Ali down, and still had enough gas left for a power shot to the head, he could have taken it. In the early rounds, he would have to cut off Ali's footwork around the ring to keep him still long enough to get shots off, no easy task with Ali's foot speed, and then counter Ali's jabs, which was not easy because that was his bread and butter punch, and that he was so fast, and then hit him with body shots, knowing Ali, he would have blocked a good portion of them, and counter to Tyson's head. The key for Tyson is to not get frustrated by Ali's skills, and taunting. If he could have kept his head in the fight, he could have taken to Ali, and possibly have taken him down in the late rounds.
A matchup for the ages.
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