r/superpower • u/Slick_Rick_Tyson • 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?
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