Tyson in attack
If you watch the early fights of Mike Tyson he would use power and pressure to drive his opponent's back to the ropes or corner and finish them with powerful short range hooks and uppercuts.
He rarely used the jab and cross as blows in their own right, just for pressure.
Watch his fights against Burbank and Spinks when he took their titles. Watch his fight against Pinkton Thomas and his first fight with Bruno.
In attack we will use thise Tyson concept - enter, drive the opponent back with pressure, terminate with close range hooks and uppercuts.
In KB we add kicks to phase entry and pressure.
In Thai we use Knees to terminate in the clinch.
In MMA we use takedowns and the ground and pound for pressure and terminate or terminate with a choke or lock.
In street we use the whole HKE at termination phase.
Ali in Counter
Ali would backpeddle and use his fast jab and set his opponents up for fast powerful cross.
Against Liston he ended it with jabs.
In his second Liston fight he used ABD to draw Liston onto a power cross.
When Foreman fought Frasier he took his head off with a power hook.
When Ali fought Foreman - the Rumble In The Jungle - he used "Rope a Dope" to defend and took Foreman out with straight blasts.
In counter we fight like Ali - this applies to KB, Thai and MMA as well.
Tyson vs Ali
People like to speculate what would happen if Tyson and Ali had a fight in their prime. (Think of the Computer fight in Rocky 6).
Having watched the two fights Ali had with Liston, and keeping in mind Tyson is virtually a copy of Liston, I can see it goingthe same way.
Perhaps Tyson would have close the gap and gotten Ali on the ropes where he could unleash his short range hooks and uppercuts?
Well so did Foreman, and Ali used rope a dope to defend and then took Foreman out with straight blasts.
Then look a how Holyfield out boxed Tyson.
I can't see any way Tyson would have beaten Ali.
But that's just my opinion.
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