Holyfield has done the impossible. He is now more of a laughing stock than Mike Tyson.

john_d_corr: An ex-boxer blowing all his money? That's unpossible!

I dunno, George Foreman seems to be doing pretty well for himself.

He's always been a dick.

The reverend

FTFA: The 104-room, 54,000-square-foot home...

WTF? A 104 room house? My wife and I have a five bedroom house with a finished basement and there has got to be at least 2 rooms I never go into. They aren't even for storage, just... there. How the fark does a guys buy a 104 room house? I'm all for letting people blow their own money but get a grip man!

TeddyBallGame: FTFA: The 104-room, 54,000-square-foot home...

WTF? A 104 room house? My wife and I have a five bedroom house with a finished basement and there has got to be at least 2 rooms I never go into. They aren't even for storage, just... there. How the fark does a guys buy a 104 room house? I'm all for letting people blow their own money but get a grip man!

I've got a 3 bedroom house with two rooms I never go into. What the hell do you do w/ 104 rooms?

mikemoto: Holyfield has done the impossible. He is now more of a laughing stock than Mike Tyson.

Umm, no. They're pretty much in the same position, except Holyfield hasn't done jail time, and, more to the point, he kicked Mike's ass twice.

/Tyson = most overrated athlete of all time

mar19: Ummm....No.
50-6, the youngest title holder ever, won his first 19 pro bouts by knockout (12 of them in the first round), and beat nearly every single top contender in his generation.

He's an emotional mess, but up until Holyfield/Tyson I, he was one of the best fighters of all-time.

Name a single historically significant win Tyson had. Just one. And blown up middleweights that peed themselves on the way to the ring don't count. You can't do it, because he doesn't have one.

Like I said, most overrated athlete of all time, the very notion that Tyson is a historically significant boxer is a joke. He beat only tomato cans, and was beaten by tomato cans himself.

You have GOT to be kidding. Frans Botha? Jesus. Tyrell Biggs?!?! Yeah, there's a historically significant victory.

And don't mention that Tyson was getting his ass beat by Tucker until he broke his hand.

And like I said, middleweights (Spinks) don't count.

Seriously, when you pull "one of his fights happened where a rapper got shot" as one of your main points of his historical significance... well, that says it all.

Your quote was that Tyson "was one of the best fighters of all-time." Of course, when asked for historically significant wins, you pull out Botha, Spinks, and Tucker (who a lot think he lost to). Oh, and he was once in a building where a rapper got shot. Right. Historical credentials if there ever were some.

The fact is that Tyson never beat a single fighter of historical significance (unless you count Larry Holmes' geriatric shell) that was anywhere close to truly being in his weight class. Spin it any way you want, but that's just truth. Oh, and he got his ass whooped by a bunch of tomato cans.

Lewis, Holyfield, and Bowe would all qualify. Of course, he stepped in the ring with two of these guys a total of three times and got rolled. Bad.

Daniels: The Lewis and Holyfield fights were well after Tyson was out of his prime.

This is a common ridiculous argument made by Tyson apologizers. What they fail to realize is that Lewis is one year older and Holyfield older than Tyson by FOUR years. When they first met, Tyson was barely 30, and Holyfield was 34. And Holyfield beat him like a drum. Same thing a year later, when Tyson was 31 and Holyfield was 35, only Tyson found a way to run out of the ring. And all this was after Holyfield had been through absolute wars with Bowe (three times), Moorer, Foreman, and the like. So that argument not only doesn't hold water, but it's laughable and flies in the face of reality. One of those fighters might have had an excuse about being old and worn down when they fought, but it sure as hell wasn't Tyson.

Lewis was also obviously older than Tyson when they met. And despite having somewhat of a glass chin (one punch knockout losses at the hands of all-time legends Hasim Rahman and Oliver McCall), he has ZERO fear of Tyson and kept him standing up for target practice just to prove a point.

Pre-King Tyson has enough problems with James "Bunkin' Donuts" Douglas and Tony Tucker. He did beat Pinklon Thomas, though. And a "heavyweight" titleholder who was fighting at 170 a couple years earlier.

Seriously, there's just no way anyone who's being intellectually honest with themselves can say that Tyson is anything even close to a historically significant heavyweight based on his record and not all the hype around knocking around a bunch of guys like Pinklon Thomas.