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.