Boxing haters, hate on this.

[muffin man]

Tyson in his prime was a complete animal. An amazingly powerful athlete. Therefore i would give him maybe a minute with a top level modern MMA fighter like St. Pierre, BJ Penn, Koshchek just to name a few.

He's a freak of nature and with even a few months of training i'd give him a little bit better odds but Tyson in his prime with just his physical attributes and boxing training would get tapped or Ko'ed quick.

[graeme87]

Tyson in his prime was a complete animal. An amazingly powerful athlete. Therefore i would give him maybe a minute with a top level modern MMA fighter like St. Pierre, BJ Penn, Koshchek just to name a few.

He's a freak of nature and with even a few months of training i'd give him a little bit better odds but Tyson in his prime with just his physical attributes and boxing training would get tapped or Ko'ed quick.

The subject wasn’t “How well would Mike Tyson have done in MMA?” and your comparing him to guys 3 weight division below where he would have been.

But to address you point, I doubt there is anyone in MMA who could have KO’d Tyson (unless you’re taking ground and pound)

Sure he could have been submitted but getting close enough to take an elite striker down without being KO’d isn’t easy.

I think an elite boxer would go far in MMA. As I said before look at Chuck Liddell or Vitor Belfort, they made their careers with their hands and neither one of them even comes close to an elite pro boxer.

[muffin man]

The subject wasn’t “How well would Mike Tyson have done in MMA?” and your comparing him to guys 3 weight division below where he would have been.

But to address you point, I doubt there is anyone in MMA who could have KO’d Tyson (unless you’re taking ground and pound)

Sure he could have been submitted but getting close enough to take an elite striker down without being KO’d isn’t easy.

I think an elite boxer would go far in MMA. As I said before look at Chuck Liddell or Vitor Belfort, they made their careers with their hands and neither one of them even comes close to an elite pro boxer.

of course someone COULD ko tyson. anybody COULD get ko'ed, especially with those little gloves.

taking an elite striker down that has zero mma training actually is easy. much easier than in just a wrestling match. unless he knows how to strike for mma then he's getting taken down, easily.

Liddell and Belfort are not elite boxer level but Lidell was a D1 wrestler. Belfort was a BJJ blackbelt. They have great ground games so they are not afraid to let their hands go. an elite boxer with no mma training would either be too scared of getting taken down to really let his hands go or.. he's either let his hands go leaving himself open to a take down.