Mike Tyson has named his all-time favourite fighter, a man he always found to be more relatable than Muhammad Ali. While being in awe of Ali’s greatness, Tyson knew he could never successfully replicate the elegance of his style. Yet still, Tyson will always be remembered as one of the sport’s most formidable champions, along with his favourite fighter Roberto Duran. In that sense, it is perhaps no wonder that Tyson – a relatively small heavyweight – named the Panamanian as his favourite fighter at an event covered by ESNEWS. It is therefore not only Duran’s height and reach disadvantages, but also his deprived background, that resonated with a young Tyson.