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[TECO]

He lost.

He is definitely done - only for the money is what they are saying about the guy.

Too bad - he's still a crazy legend.

[igotthisguitar]

[mindmetoo]

[Butterfly]

[Nowhere Man]

I'd just note that he himself said after the fight he was doing it for the money.

While he was a great fighter, I think there is plenty of room to include him in the blame for his own demise. There's the biting. There's statements like, "I want to eat your children". There's the prison sentence. He was seriously unstable.

I do wonder what it would have been like if he hadn't gone to jail. Up to that point, he seemed undefeatable, and that was some seriously lost time in the hoosegow.

[Tiger Beer]

Anyone catch Robin Givens on Oprah a couple days ago?



She was talking about the physical abuse.. and a lot of crazy stuff.

Tyson telling her on an airplane from Moscow to the US how he was going to kill her, a very matter-of-factly. About some other time where Tyson was up on the roof. All kinds of crazy stuff.

Good episode.

[Teufelswacht]

I feel sorry for Iron Mike - and his victims. He could have been the greatest that there has ever been. Now he will go down in history as a side-show freak of sorts.

It seems to me that the end really came in 1985 when Gus D'Amato died. Gus appeared to be the only person on the planet who really cared about "Mike" as a person. Looking at his career and his life, all went to heck after Gus passed away. If Gus had lived, who knows what heights Mike could have attained. We'll never know. And that is a shame.

[rapier]

Robin looks a lot better than Tyson nowadays.

Still, she has mike to thank for that.

[Tiger Beer]

[FUBAR]

I think alot of blame on those crazy interviews has to go with his handlers, namely Don King. I read that the last time Tyson was trying to sue him, King kept him locked away in a hotel room with hookers, booze and who knows what else. By the time the deadline had passed, the lawsuit was gone and Tyson re-upped with King.

The boxing industry will be alot better place when those old guard promoters die or get run out by the new-breed of promoters (ie. former boxers) such as De La Hoya/ Jones Jr. I still can't believe that the U.S. Senators are going after steroids, while the sport of boxing has problems much more serious than a little juicing. That should be a sport that needs legislation.

[gypsyfish]

Cus Damato was like a father to him and teufelwacht's right.

It's sad really he was one of the best but his legacy will be the stupid things that he did. The picture of him on the ropes is pathetic. God, he had a back you could show a movie on.

[Tiger Beer]

i can't wait for the movies and documentaries.

[Bulsajo]

I wonder if Hollyfield feels sorry for Tyson.

Tyson's IQ is low enough that he didn't know it wrong to bite off ears in a boxing match?

[rapier]

McBride got paid a measly 150.000 for that, and i don't believe for a moment he thought he could actually win.

What a waste, hahaha!


"I have some pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. So every now and then I kick your f**king ass."
Check out these Mike Tyson quotes, (entertaining!)

http://kjkolb.tripod.com/homepage/miketysonquotes.html

"There are nine million people who see me in the ring and hate my guts. Most of them are white. That's okay. Just spell my name right."

"One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like a infantile retard."

on Evander Holyfield:

"He called me a rapist and a recluse.I'm not a recluse!?"

[The Bobster]