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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
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 Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:23 am Post subject: Iron Mike Tyson fighting in Pride. |
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22/10, that would be this coming sunday, round 9 30pm i think.
Should be good, Butterbeans fighting as well. That would be a sweet match up. |
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Junior
Joined: 18 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:34 am Post subject: |
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yep.. sounds interesting.
So they've pulled him out of the porn industry then?
Ah..ok..here it is:
MIKE TYSON JOINS PRIDE FIGHTING MMA
By Cliff Montgomery, ExtremeProSports.com
The Asia-based PRIDE Fighting Championship is looking to make inroads in North America with publicity drawing events, such as Pride signing Mike Tyson. North America has long been territory of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). PRIDE will host its first North American tournament at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas on October 21st, 2006, and is hoping to attract many new people to its form of MMA.
Mike Tyson actually coming out of retirement to fight again is of course possible, but unlikely.
http://www.extremeprosports.com/full_contact_fighting/mike_tyson_pride_fighting.html |
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Nambucaveman
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:47 am Post subject: |
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| Are there any odds on whether he bites off his opponents ear? |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| Anybody whos paid Mike to fight or paid money to watch Mike fight since about '94 is a sucker. Full stop. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:07 am Post subject: |
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| So you going to watch or not? Because if you are then doesn't thaty negate your argument? |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:11 am Post subject: |
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No I won't watch it. These days watching the fights makes me grumpy and reminds me of the slow decline of western culture.
Basically it turns me into Grandpa Simpson. |
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rawiri
Joined: 01 Jun 2003
Location: Lovely day for a fire drill.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:17 am Post subject: |
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| C'mon man, it's on a sunday evening, kick back with a couple of beers and a big bowl of salty popcorn, put your feet up and devolve for a couple of hours. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:26 am Post subject: |
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Here's Mike pictured with his new trainer, Jeff Fenech (who was a former world light-heavyweight/crusierweight champ from Australia, I think...)
 I first heard about it on the wrestling/mma talk radio show "between the ropes" and they announced that Tyson had signed a multi-fight deal of at least 6 "exhibition" bouts. My understanding is that it's a boxing match, not MMA. I'm not sure if this match is sanctioned as a real contest or just as an exhibition ...
In an interview on a Mike Tyson fan site, Fenech states that he thinks that in his prime, when training well, Tyson could have defeated any of the great heavyweights... Here's the last part of the interview:
Tyson's first fight on the tour is against a tough heavyweight Corey
Sanders who holds a KO win over current WBC champion Oleg Maskaev.
Will he be a difficult opponent for Mike?
Corey is the only guy to knock out Maskaev. I have watched Corey train
- he is very determined to give his best against Mike. Sanders has been
just been offered a fight in the Virgin Islands. He is a big heavyweight
weighing around 360 pounds. There fight will be over four rounds - so
there is going to be a lot of action...
http://www.tysontalk.com/
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Paji eh Wong wrote: |
| Anybody whos paid Mike to fight or paid money to watch Mike fight since about '94 is a sucker. Full stop. |
My dad's friend paid 20 bucks to see one of his fights on a big screen in bar somewhere in the early 90s. They guy went to the washroom 5 minutes before the beginning of the fight. When he came out 6 minutes later, it was already over.  |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| rteacher, he's probably right. Mike Tyson probably had one of the strongest punches ever, if not the strongest. My friend liked to say that whenever he'd bring his hand back as if to scartch his butt, you'd know someone was going down. |
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Paji eh Wong
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| rteacher, he's probably right. Mike Tyson probably had one of the strongest punches ever, if not the strongest. My friend liked to say that whenever he'd bring his hand back as if to scartch his butt, you'd know someone was going down. |
Eh, what the hell, I'm in.
Tyson was a big puncher. Maybe not as big as Ernie Shavers, who hit Joe Frazier so hard that Don King put the lit end of a cigar in his mouth. But still a big puncher. The biggest asset as a puncher that Tyson has is his freaky midrange sweet spot. He hits far harder at midrange than anyone has a right to, which surprises a lot of fighters. The surprise is the key to so many of his knockouts. Most knockouts, really, since in boxing its not the punches you see that hurt you, its the ones you don't see.
Since Buster Douglas laid down the blueprint to beat him, Tyson hasn't been able to adapt, and better fighters have been taking advantage. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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"Apparently someone forgot to tell Sakakibara that "Iron" Mike Tyson is completely bats`'t motherf`'ing insane. ( ) [Tyson is] notoriously unpredictable...Pride is taking a huge gamble by bringing in Tyson in any capacity, but it could pay off big time in America for the Japanese organization.
"I'm sure we'll get some great soundbites, and Pride will get a ton of press in America, but in the end Tyson will flake and the whole thing will be forgotten about after a few months. However, having Mike Tyson as a part of Pride could gain them enough mainstream attention to become a legitimate threat to UFC in America."
Which perhaps is true enough. But for those too young to remember, it didn't have to be like this for Tyson. At one time he seemed sure to go down in history as quite possibly the best fighter of the 20th Century, perhaps better than Joe Louis or even Muhammad Ali.
But that was then, and this is now. And while I may not allow myself to be as hard on Mike as insidepulse.com, they are exactly right when they realize that Tyson has no one else to blame for his fall but himself.
Can Mike pick himself up and become a better man out of the ring than he was within it? It is possible; George Foreman was known to have many of the same problems as Tyson. With faith, family and a little luck, Foreman was able to beat his demons.
If Mike's small incursions with PRIDE turn out to be part of the long road back to self-respect and dignity for the former champ, then we should truly wish him the best. But if this simply gives us more of the same flesh-eating, wife-beating creep who left the ring last year, then the fight game is better off without him. |
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Free World
Joined: 01 Apr 2005
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject: yes |
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I wanna see Mike face Butterbean.
That'd be a match. |
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Satori
Joined: 09 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Why does Butterbean keep doing it? He seems to get the crappola beaten out of him every time... |
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