Tyson V Tucker

[TIGEREDGE]

I watched tyson v tucker the other day. what skills tyson showed in that fight. tucker boxed well and mike adjusted his style and managed to outbox TNT

He showed some great ring knowledge. Whoever said that he was just a slugger is talking shit. he was like a heavyweight roberto duran

[Robbi]

I watched tyson v tucker the other day. what skills tyson showed in that fight. tucker boxed well and mike adjusted his style and managed to outbox TNT

He showed some great ring knowledge. Whoever said that he was just a slugger is talking shit. he was like a heavyweight roberto duran

Average performance from Tyson. Tucker's style gave him problems for a few rounds, and even the rounds Tyson dominated he hardly looked great.

[torchkit]

I haven't viewed Tyson v. Tucker since it originally aired on HBO, but I remember being bored.

[CzarKyle]

I'd say for purists and Tyson historians (Tyson-orians perhaps?) it's really not that bad of a fight. John Ruiz puts you to sleep. At least Tucker stays in the fight. He also gave Lennox some good shots (Tucker that is), but The Lion was too young to be put out by that old dog.

[ChrisPontius]

Average performance from Tyson. Tucker's style gave him problems for a few rounds, and even the rounds Tyson dominated he hardly looked great.

I thought it was a solid performance. Tucker is a bitch to fight and very durable. Tyson put on a good workman like performance as Merchant put it, winning a 9-3 decision on my card.

[mochabuzz]

Tucker had a badly injured right hand in this fight... an injury that initially occurred during training. Tucker's dad/manager (Bob 'Lazy eye' Tucker) hid the injury because he didn't want the fight postponed. In watching this fight (i've seen it probably five or six times in the last few months) i realized that after the first couple of rounds Tucker seemed to use the right hand sparingly and he never threw hard punches with it... just pitter-patter jabs. I think Mike fought pretty poorly against an injured Tucker. This was not one of Mike 's premier showings.
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I think a healthy Tucker would have put up a much better fight...
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[DamonD]

I thought it was a solid performance. Tucker is a bitch to fight and very durable. Tyson put on a good workman like performance as Merchant put it, winning a 9-3 decision on my card.
I thought the same. I seem to very vaguely remember giving Tucker the 1st, 3rd and 10th rounds the last time I saw it but it was a clear if unspectacular win for Tyson. Tucker was ring-savvy and big enough to nullify some of what Mike was trying to do, broke up his rhythm a lot, so Mike did the bulk of his scoring in breakout flurries.

It's not too bad a fight actually, no classic but far from a Tyson-Bonecrusher kinda fight.

Wasn't it Bob Tucker that was secretly stealing great chunks of Tony's purse for himself?

[Titan1]

Tucker had a badly injured right hand in this fight... an injury that initially occurred during training. Tucker's dad/manager (Bob 'Lazy eye' Tucker) hid the injury because he didn't want the fight postponed. In watching this fight (i've seen it probably five or six times in the last few months) i realized that after the first couple of rounds Tucker seemed to use the right hand sparingly and he never threw hard punches with it... just pitter-patter jabs. I think Mike fought pretty poorly against an injured Tucker. This was not one of Mike 's premier showings.
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I think a healthy Tucker would have put up a much better fight...
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If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?

[My dinner with Conteh]

If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?


Well, he didn't exactly set the division alight against anyone else.

[JohnThomas1]

Well, he didn't exactly set the division alight against anyone else.

I do think his win over an in form Douglas was ok tho. Douglas was fighting well that night before running out of puff/giving up the ghost, whatever it was.

[Titan1]

I saw some of his fight with James Broad for the USBA title back in '86, he looked somewhat decent in that one.Beyond that, not too much.

[josak]

Tyson did a good job. It was a tricky fight for him, but he won just about every round. Tyson got some good shots in and even out jabbed/outboxed tucker at some points.

[ironchamp]

If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?

Potentially, he would have opened up more and in return would have or could taken more blows.

[joe the great]

If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?
Who knows. Most fighters have to deal with some kind of injury. Rarely do fighters go into a fight 100 percent healthy.

[mochabuzz]

If Tony had not been injured, how do you think he would've fared against Mike?
I think it would have been a much more competitive fight. Tucker was a good fighter... certainly one of the best(if not the best) opponent Tyson fought during his reign.

[mochabuzz]

Who knows. Most fighters have to deal with some kind of injury. Rarely do fighters go into a fight 100 percent healthy. True... most fighters go into fights with nagging injuries... but if an injury prevents you from utilizing one of your best weapons, (in Tucker's case any type of hard right hand) then you are seriously limited, especially if you are a right handed fighter. Most people on ESB seem to think that Tucker was a nobody who couldn't fight... but most of his unfulfilled potential seemed to be due to his woeful management (under his father) & the many people who were skimming off the top of his fights:
Check out the Tyson vs Tucker fight:
Tucker's purse for this fight was 1.9 million dollars(before taxes)....
But then the deductions begin........
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A drug habit that Tucker developed in the late 1980's didn't help things.
BTW: Dennis Rappaport wanted an additional $300,000 paid to him & attempted to cancel the fight when he didn't get his extra money. His bid to cancel the fight was denied.... :)