Did Mike Tyson lift weights while he was the Heavyweight champion?

Question

Any Boxing fans out there.....Help with this one! A buddy of mine were talking the other day and he insists Tyson NEVER lifted weights until after he lost the championship! I have trouble believeing that one! I dont think he went balls out with the weights but he had to have done SOME lifting!

Answer 1

Mike Tyson is old school and his trainer Cu's Demotto would never let one of his fighters lift weights I would bet you on this only recently did some boxers start lifting weights it started with Evander Holyfield Shane Mosley Tommy Morrison You are right Tyson does have a body like a weight lifter I don,t think you need weights because lifting weights will restrict your movement and make you heaver now be for all you people who lift weights get on here and tell me how you can incorporate weight training into your boxing program I know you can I just don,t see the need because you are doing push ups and pull ups in your work out

Answer 2

I respect both as fighters, but I think that both are overrated. Both came along when the heavyweight division was weak, so we never saw how they would stand up prime for prime against an all time great. Marciano was a very hard puncher, very tough, and had an almost unbreakable will to win, but at 5'10" 185 lbs (or thereabouts) and with a 68" reach I don't know how he would handle the 240 lb plus heavies that came along later. As well he had tough fights with Joe Louis, Jersey Joe Walcott, Ezzard Charles and Archie Moore, although they were all time greats they were well past their respective primes and a top three all time heavyweight shouldn't have struggled with them as Marciano did. Tyson was a very fast, strong, powerful fighter, but he didn't have great stamina, wasn't strong mentally and didn't really have a champions heart. He was a bully in the ring and had a bully mentality, whenever a fighter took his best shots and came back with good shots of their own Tyson would usually lose, and he never got off the floor to win. Both were great champions but not the untouchables that people make them out to be.

Answer 3

I once had an elderly lady for a friend. She had a wonderful little dog. A mix of some sort. She had the dog trained well and it behaved very well. Learn here https://tr.im/byqI8

She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.

Answer 4

It's true..Tyson never lifted weights in the beginning.
He started when his career went into the toilet.
And I'm sure he stayed busy on the weights in prison.
There is something to be said for genetics, a good
timed workout and road work.

Answer 5

I watched a show on him a while back, they said that Mike, in his younger years of pro boxing didn't lift weights. He just did un-Godly amounts of sit ups, push-ups, and ran.....

Walter Payton did the same.... But he would run for 45 mins to an hour in water....

Answer 6

yes mike tyson did lift weights.

Answer 7

there are other ways of building strength then just "lifting wieghts" as you say. Alot of training now-a-days is done using resistance. this can be the persons own body wieght.. doin pulls ups, push ups, sit ups, bar dips, lunges, jump rope etc.

it is possible to strength train without using free wieghts but its pretty much up to the individual training regime

Answer 8

pre-prison days, i think he might have, i've seen footage of him working out with weights that looked like it was from the 80's but i'm not sure. he did when he got out of prison for sure though. he was probably workin out in prison too because when he came out he was pretty big, muscular wise, more so than he was when he was boxing.

Answer 9

No he did not lift any weights!!!

Answer 10

I think later in his career he started going the gym actua gym more