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Originally Posted by dig420
you can give excuses, justifications and rationalizations for any position you want to hold in boxing. IMHO, since Tyson knocked guys out with one shot, he had one shot KO power. End of story. I've been a boxing freak since I was a small child, I'm 41 now, and I've never seen a harder puncher in my lifetime than Tyson. Not Foreman, not Earnie Shavers, not Cleveland Williams, nobody. Add in the fact that his shots were delivered at lightning speed, either hand was equally deadly and he threw in combinations and I think you have to work pretty fucking hard to deny his punching ability lol... I saw the same show and I don't remember any of them ever saying he didn't have 'elite' power. I can't think of any serious boxing fan who would make that claim. It's about as obvious as it can possibly ever be that he did.
Off the top of my head I can't think of any fighter who knocked out all of his opponents. That's just not how it happens. Not for Tyson, not for anyone else.
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Are you sure you watched the show? Al Bernstein went on a pretty long tangent about Tyson's punching power, and was backed up by everyone on the panel. He even made the analogy of Foreman's punches being like a semi hitting you at 60 MPH, and Tyson's like a Pontiac hitting you at 100 MPH. I'm not trying to make excuses or justifications. Tyson's KO's were strictly a product of his superior hand speed and good, but not elite level power. When Foreman came back he was horribly out of shape, but he could still put you on your ass. Just look at his jabs...even they would snap your head back violently and could knock you out.