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yep, with excellent footwork. I really think we're going thru a revisionist period now where his skills in his prime are being downgraded, but the pendulum will swing back the other way again over time. A lot of people feel very let down with Tyson, they backed him very strongly and made great claims about him and then he just blatantly self-destructed. I would say he hit and passed his peak before he ever got in the ring with Spinks, that's how short his prime was, and the only reason it was so short is because of Mike Tyson himself.
If I were given a piece of paper and a pencil and told to make a list of all the traits of a perfect heavyweight fighter, I would pretty end up describing Mike Tyson to a T, except that I would have given a stronger mental make-up to withstand the pressures of being a champ, and being Robin Given's husband. That's enough to bring just about any man to his knees.
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