Laid out by great tiger? With an Adaptoid? The problem is that you just suck. I'll admit it takes me a few times of using the warp-straight-to Tyson code to defeat him (but what do you expect from a 1 hit knock-down?) but I can get TO him pretty much any time.
If tiger kicks your butt, how do you manage Soda Popinski?
edit: and by the way, there is much more blocking involved with Tiger than dodging... that may be your problem!
Just broke my personal record for number of consecutive days without dying!