The reason they dont have wiki pages is because wikipedia wasnt being populated whilst Tyson was fighting these guys! Its easy for current boxers to have a page generated about them as they are current topics.
Muhammad Ali who fought before him had more fights with people who had wikis. Leonard too.
Without going into too much effort, Tyson fought a lot of champions, former champions and top ranked contenders. Fighters like Tony Tubbs, Frank Bruno, Carl williams, Larry holmes, Trevor Berbick etc he beat them all before the age of 25. He was walking through experienced fighters and created an unbelievable buzz of excitement at the time in boxing. He had a great mentor in Cus D'amato, who took him under his wing and kept him on the right path - but when he died, Tyson surrounded himself by people who didnt have his best intentions at the forefront. As a fragile character, he needed that arm around him to help him define himself a true and established champion.
Larry Holmes was past it, way past it. Counting that match is like counting Holmes victory against Ali. He was spent.
Tyson's only really great win was against Michael Spinks but Spinks was arguably past it too, considering that was his last match in his career.
Holmes and Spinks are the only two hall of famers whom were defeated by Tyson, which shows quite well that for most part Tyson defeated shit boxers, at times some decent ones, in addition to two legends who were past it. Holmes is also the only top 10 heavyweight who was defeated from Tyson.
Agree about D'amato and likely things would have gone better if he hadn't die, but that is ifs and buts.
Tyson was a fericious fighter pre prison, unfortunately his greatness could never prove to stand the test of time because he never came back from adversity and prove his champions spirit. His fragile mentality was his biggest weakness.
To me its quite obvious he is a level above Vlad who has a solid but padded record and has never really had defining fights against an equal. Vlad, although an established champion is just a very good fighter. Mike Tyson was however, a great, something special in terms of what he brought to the boxing ring. He had a unique fighting ability and his gladiatorial style mirrored the warriors spirit that boxers & fighters should represent - to seek and destory the opponent. And quite like Ali, Tyson transcended boxing.
In my opinion a prime Tyson would have knocked out both klitschkos and would walk through every current heavyweight with ease.
If I had to bet in a match between Tyson and Klitschkos during their primes, I would bet Wlad to outpoint Tyson and Vitali to KO him. Obviously, Tyson might KO both of them, but I think it is less likely that he would have won.
I wouldn't ever put Tyson in top 10 heavyweights, and likely wouldn't put Klitschkos too, considering that like Tyson, they never defeated someone relevant. The closest they came was when Vitali was TKO in a match against Lewis (Lewis' last ever match) when Vitali was outpointing Lewis, but still Lewis reshaped his face and the doctors/referees had to stop the fight.
I think that had Tyson faced Lewis any time during the nineties, Lewis would have relatively easy won (maybe 8 out of 10 matches or so). We saw Holyfield destroying Tyson, and there is no doubt that in their primes all of Holmes, Foreman, Frazier, Ali and Liston would have wiped the floor with him. It is more difficult to know about potential Marciano/Louis matchup considering that they were lighter (and likely in modern era would have been light heavyweights), but they should have been quite good knowing their record. I don't know much about Dempsey (limited footage) or Johnson (no footage).
The only legendary heavyweight I think Tyson would have defeated is Floyd Patterson. I agree with you however that he would beat all of the current fighters (well, that would be Fury, Joshua and Haye).
