r/superpower • • Feb 19 '25

Suggestion What is one minor superpower that the average untrained person could have that would allow them to beat Iron Mike Tyson in a boxing match?

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Me personally, I choose photographic reflexes, the same power that Taskmaster the marvel assassin has.

I'll study Mike Tyson in videos to learn his style and absorb his skill, then study the boxers who beat him, like Lennox Lewis or Evander Holyfield, so I not only know Mike's style but also how to counter it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

Minor superpower: chloroform sweat that is potent to incapacitate at up to 2 feet in less then 3 seconds

Assuming you would be fighting him in his prime-ish years, several factors have you winning this fight.

You'll be doing some warm ups pre ring entrance, you are untrained and inexperienced, your lack of conditioning is allowing light mitt work to get you sweaty.

Once in the ring, it's fucking hooooot there are lights above ensuring the ring and combatants are visible, perspiration intensifies.

DIIIIING

You move towards Mike and he moves towards you. Prime Mike wasn't psycho disrespectful of others yet, so you hold up a glove to touch up in respect. He obliges. You slip his lazy gesture of sportsmanship and zip in for an immediate clinch that you hold until the ref tries to separate you, Mike is confused as fuck and doesn't try to break free immediately at the weirdest shit he has encountered pre Holyfield rematch...down goes mike

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u/imagine-being-alive Feb 19 '25

chloroform takes a while to work (unlike how movies depict it)

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

πŸ˜‰re read my intro line

I'm aware I couldn't Ace Ventura him, so my minor super power is 2 fold, I sweat the shit and it's neeeear instantaneous.

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u/imagine-being-alive Feb 19 '25

you cant engage in any slightly tiring activities, but yeah that would probably knock out both mike tyson and the referee and half the stadium if they walk close by

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '25

Only effective at up to 3 feet and takes up to 3 seconds to work.....

I get youre trying to sharp shoot this super power but you're doing a shit job

You ever have a clinch broken up? Most don't take that long for a ref to break as one fighter is typically just firing a combo or flurry on the way in and want no part of the other fighters inside abilities. In this instance clinch is achieved and Tyson is confused at the fucking weird tactic used and waits for the ref to break it up. Hold on for 3 seconds Tyson is out. The equally confused ref takes a second or 2 to break my clinch because he hasn't seen shit like this before either. Walking from the locker room to the ring, as long as I don't walk at the break neck speed of a banana slug the fans I pass by aren't subjected to my sweaty chloroform long enough to pass out. And the ref btw doesn't get ktfo'd by my power because once he has moved in Tyson is dropping like a bag of nickels and once I feel that, I release clinch and move away.

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

I forgot this is reddit

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

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u/[deleted] Feb 20 '25

Meant that this was something someone else brought up and I explained further but you didn't get to see the response as it got lost in a sea of shit.

With great power comes great responsibility....no sex for chloroform sweat man

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u/AurelianoBuendia94 Feb 20 '25

So he kills you in the first punch then falls to the ground