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If Mike Tyson punched you, would you die?

  • 22-01-2008 3:04am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,044 ✭✭✭


    I was discussing this with a friend last night, here's the situation-

    You are in a boxing match with Mike Tyson when he was in his prime. The bell rings and he comes out and hits you with one of his best shots.

    My friend thinks that there is a very, very good chance the punch would kill you or at best, give you long term brain damage...

    My thoughts are that there is a chance of this, but he'd have to catch you in a very precise spot and that 99% of the time you'd just be knocked out and get a concussion or something.

    What do you think?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,509 ✭✭✭Jigsaw


    You would just fall down. But if you got up again then you would be put down again. I say that because I have never received such a blow to the head so all the above could be crap.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Sheesh... of course not.. he's no Barry McGuigan.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    If you try to run away, don't fall. It's Mike Tyson! If you fall down, then chances are someone's gonna get raped and it's not going to be him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    If it doesn't kill you, it will definately knock you out.

    Either way he's gonna rape you after you hit the ground


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,110 ✭✭✭Y2J_MUFC


    orestes wrote: »
    If it doesn't kill you, it will definately knock you out.

    Either way he's gonna rape you after you hit the ground

    I dont think its the punch that you'd should be worried about... Its what comes next!!!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 208 ✭✭Jrad


    He would rape you.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Dike Mike rape someone and forget to tell me about it???


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 10,443 Mod ✭✭✭✭Mr Magnolia


    I remember hearing back when Tyson wasn't chewing ears that one of his punches would decapitate the average man. So I'd say if he did decapitate you, there's a fair chance you'd be dead.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Mirror wrote: »
    Dike Mike rape someone and forget to tell me about it???

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_tyson#Rape_conviction.2C_prison.2C_and_aftermath


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,194 ✭✭✭Trojan911


    Apparently Tysons punch, in his prime, was equivalent to a car hitting you at 30mph. You could get a buddy to try this out with your car or just watch this and decide for yourself.

    (Completely ignore any advice offered up in this post :D)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    Trojan911 wrote: »
    Apparently Tysons punch, in his prime, was equivalent to a car hitting you at 30mph. You could get a buddy to try this out with your car or just watch this and decide for yourself.

    (Completely ignore any advice offered up in this post :D)
    Wow...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭Rosita


    Sqaull20 wrote: »
    I was discussing this with a friend last night, here's the situation-

    You are in a boxing match with Mike Tyson when he was in his prime. The bell rings and he comes out and hits you with one of his best shots.

    My friend thinks that there is a very, very good chance the punch would kill you or at best, give you long term brain damage...

    My thoughts are that there is a chance of this, but he'd have to catch you in a very precise spot and that 99% of the time you'd just be knocked out and get a concussion or something.

    What do you think?



    Obviously a lot depends on your physical size. Presumably if you are in the ring with him in the first place you will be reasonably well able to take such punishment. So a knock out and concussion seems more likely. I would think that long term brian damage would be more likely if he didn't knock you out quickly but kept battering away round after round.


    I hev no recollection of him raping anyone in the boxing ring I have to say but others seem to be convinced it is the standard follow-on from the punch.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    I have little doubt that if Iron Mike gave someone a sucker punch in his prime he'd kill the average person.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,560 ✭✭✭✭Kess73


    If Tyson punched me, then he better be a fast runner. :mad:








    We are talking about Mike Tyson, the small guy with asthma and a limp from Ballyknockedup? :)



    The real Tyson would do a lot of damage to a regular joe in the street with one punch. Most boxers/ex boxers would, especially heavyweights.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    This guy once knocked a fellow heavyweight down twice with one punch. A punch of that nature would certainly ruin your day.
    The real trouble for boxers was not with the brutal punches that make the highlight reels. What did the real damage was the sustained trauma to the head; the fact that they get hit over and over. So when a boxer takes a brutal shot and is knocked down, the fact that he has that ten count to get back to his feet works to hs detriment. It would be better for their long term safety if boxing were mre like MMA - after a knockdown, the opponent pounces on him and lands two or three more clean shots in quick succession before the fight is stopped.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,321 ✭✭✭prendy


    theres a few fighters he fought in his early years that never fought again(even with years training). think one was a journeyman called joe johnson or something.
    his punch would deffo snap your neck. animal


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Mike Tyson is a fággot, I'd fúck him in the ass till he loved me.
    He's a pussy, I want to eat his children.

    :rolleyes:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    I'd probably vapourise if he hit me hard enough, but realisticly I'd shoot him first!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    Here is a clip of Tyson versus Trevor Berbick. Berbick was World Champion at the time and he was the man who made Ali retire. Tyson was only 20 and in two rounds reduced the man to a gibbering vegetable. Unreal. No doubt that Tyson at his best was capable of killing your average joe with one punch.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMGzKcbCYPc

    Oh and check this out. Funniest/scariest Mike Tyson moments. :D

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6cFxWgLqHA


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,449 ✭✭✭megadodge


    Tyson was one of the hardest punchers in the history of the human race and he was 15-151/2 stone of speed, leverage and accuracy, so realistically if the average Joe Soap (12 stone and untrained in boxing/self-defence) got into the ring with Tyson and was hit flush, there's a very strong possibility he could be killed.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,219 ✭✭✭✭biko


    If Tyson starts a fight with me and gets the first punch in he'd better kill me...*


    *he'd probably snap my neck like a dry twig with that punch


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Imagine using all that power against a woman, something which he was partial to


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,916 ✭✭✭RonMexico


    When asked what was the most satisfying punch of his career he said hitting his wife.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,570 ✭✭✭Rovi


    At his peak, when he was under the guidance and mentoring of Cus D'Amato, Tyson was nothing short of fearsome.
    As others have already said, I have no doubt that a clean suckerpunch to an untrained and unfit 'ordinary Joe' would kill or maim them.


    Q: Why does Mike Tyson cry after making love?
    A: That's what Mace does to you.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭Nunu


    RonMexico wrote: »
    Here is a clip of Tyson versus Trevor Berbick. Berbick was World Champion at the time and he was the man who made Ali retire. Tyson was only 20 and in two rounds reduced the man to a gibbering vegetable. Unreal. No doubt that Tyson at his best was capable of killing your average joe with one punch.


    Berrbick was murdered a couple of years back....no wonder his assassin chopped him to death, he thought he was a carrot....*I'll get my coat and never, ever return*:o


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,113 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    So who would win, Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    So who would win, Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee?

    Mr T


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 24,609 ✭✭✭✭arybvtcw0eolkf


    So who would win, Mike Tyson or Bruce Lee?

    Golf, boxing or Kung Fu?.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I'd kick his ass.
    I'm bigger than he ever was.

    On that note, please don't ever hit me. I fall quicker than a house of cards.


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  • Posts: 8,016 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Kemos wrote: »
    If you try to run away, don't fall. It's Mike Tyson! If you fall down, then chances are someone's gonna get raped and it's not going to be him


    That has me in hysterics! ****ing excellent. Lads.... he just wanted a bit of growler :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Mairt wrote: »
    Golf, boxing or Kung Fu?.

    Cross stitch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,716 ✭✭✭✭Earthhorse


    If Tyson hit me, I'd sure die...of embarrasment that is...


    The-Rigger wrote: »
    Cross stitch.

    I'll go with Tyson if it's cross stitching. Calm stitching I'd say Bruce would win.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭johnp


    I remember hearing back when Tyson wasn't chewing ears that one of his punches would decapitate the average man. So I'd say if he did decapitate you, there's a fair chance you'd be dead.

    I saw a documentary about him a few years back. He used to cry on the way to ring because he believed that he was gonna kill his opponent :eek:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,856 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    Wearing gloves or not? I would think that if he wasn't, he'd crack your skull and f*ck you up majorly. If he was, you'd go straight down and be concussed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    If Mike Tyson and a car hit eachother at 30MPH and raped eachother on point of contact, which one would die?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,119 ✭✭✭shrapnel222


    i have no doubt the average guy would die, or at best spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Yes

    Fact

    End of

    Atari


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    Which came first, the chicken or Mike Tyson? (during the rape)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,470 ✭✭✭Mr_Roger_Bongos


    Anatomy of a knockout punch

    So alot of boxers could kill you, but none should be able to beat you at Sudoku!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Kemos wrote: »
    Which came first, the chicken or Mike Tyson? (during the rape)

    If you had Mike Tyson, a chicken and a laptop and had to get the three of them across a river without any of them being raped but the boat only holds one rapist, how can it be done?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Dennis the Stone


    If you had Mike Tyson, a chicken and a laptop and had to get the three of them across a river without any of them being raped but the boat only holds one rapist, how can it be done?

    I can't do it. I'm a rapist as well. The chicken would have to row the laptop across and then run to a house and call the police, tell them there's two rapists trying to get across a river and they're up to no good.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,388 ✭✭✭KingOfFairview


    Kemos wrote: »
    I can't do it. I'm a rapist as well. The chicken would have to row the laptop across and then run to a house and call the police, tell them there's two rapists trying to get across a river and they're up to no good.

    its political correctness gone mad... and that wont stop the bullet from a rapist's gun


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