Amateur fights & sparring sessions.

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(01-23-2017 05:30 AM)the ollie reed fan club Wrote:  Oliver McCall was one bad ass motherfucker, he was sparring Tyson in his prime and seemed happy to go right at him. It's amazing to see Tyson at such a young age have complete control of his style and how to implement it. I don't know if I've ever seen someone at 21/22 understand their own style and look like such a complete fighter at that age. Rooney swears black and blue that there was so much more they were developing in sparring and that we only ever saw Tyson at about 50% of his true potential and I believe him.

I've heard this too. Max Kellerman said once; when we saw Tyson fighting pre-Douglas, we wondered to ourselves if we were watching the GOAT. We know now that we weren't, but there was something special about him that made us think that.