Mike Tyson loses to White Irish fighter

[Steve B]

With win, McBride may have ended Tyson's career
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Mike Tyson's career apparently ended in a shocker Saturday night when he quit on the stool after taking a beating in a foul-filled sixth round against unheralded Kevin McBride.

Tyson lost for the third time in his last four fights, and once again he faded badly as the rounds went on before head butting McBride in a desperate attempt to end the fight in the sixth round.
Tyson was pushed to the canvas when the round ended, his head stuck between the first and second ropes. He got up very slowly, wobbled back to his corner and sat on his stool.


When referee Joe Cortez came by to look at him, his corner told Cortez the fighter could not continue. Cortez then went over and raised McBride's hand in victory.

The 38-year-old Tyson was a huge favorite over McBride and won the early rounds. But as the fight went on, it was McBride landing the bigger punches as Tyson desperately tried to score a knockout.

Tyson was weary by the fifth round and, in the sixth round, he was penalized two points for deliberately head butting McBride and opening a cut over his left eye. The head butt came after Tyson appeared to try to break McBride's arm in a clinch like he once did against Francois Botha and after he hit him with several low blows.

In a career filled with tremendous highs and terrible lows, Tyson may have reached a new low in the loss to McBride, who came into the fight with no credentials.

"I don't have the stomach for this anymore," Tyson said. "I most likely won't fight anymore. I'm not going to disrespect the sport by losing to this caliber of fighters."

Tyson was a shell of the fighter he once was, throwing wild punches and trying to knock out McBride with each shot. But McBride took the punches and came back with some of his own and Tyson gradually began wearing down.

The sixth round was bizarre even by the standards of a fighter once banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield's ears.

Tyson was clearly exhausted and opened the round by throwing wild shots. He then appeared to try to break McBride's arm, drawing a protest from the Irish fighter.

"He tried to break my arm and he butted me," McBride said. "That's the rough stuff in boxing."

Tyson wasn't through. He banged his bald head against McBride, prompting Cortez to take two points from him for the foul.

"I could have gone on but I thought I was getting beat," Tyson said. "I don't think I have it anymore."


A struggling Mike Tyson had to resort to tactics like this head butt against Kevin McBride. It didn't work. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press)


Tyson was tentative early, showing little of the aggressiveness that once made him a feared fighter. McBride stood right in front of him, but Tyson was content to land only one punch at a time, perhaps remembering how he ran out of gas in his previous fights.

"There's no rush," trainer Jeff Fenech said after the first round.

But it turned out there was a rush as Tyson faded just as he did against Danny Williams last July. That loss was blamed on torn cartilage in Tyson's leg, but it was clear even to the pro-Tyson crowd of 15,472 at the MCI Center on this night that Tyson was a shot fighter.

The 6-foot-5 McBride towered over Tyson and weighed 271 pounds to 233 for the former champion. But he had been knocked out four times by lesser fighters and wasn't expected to give Tyson much of a fight.

When the fight was stopped, Tyson was ahead 57-55 on two scorecards and behind by the same score on the third. The Associated Press had it 56-56.

"This win was for the pride of Ireland," McBride said. "I proved everyone wrong tonight."

Tyson got some prefight guidance from Muhammad Ali, who visited him in the dressing room. But even The Greatest couldn't do anything for the conditioning and reflexes of a fighter who really hasn't beaten a top heavyweight since he defeated Razor Ruddock 14 years ago.

Tyson badly needed the win after being stopped by Williams, and vowed in the week before the fight that he would regain the heavyweight title. He told McBride he would "gut you like a fish" and claimed he was once again in top condition.

Everyone without an Irish accent was at the arena hoping to see Tyson show them flashes of the fighter he once was when he ruled the heavyweight division. But Tyson was tentative, threw punches one at a time and grew increasingly frustrated as McBride took everything he had.

Tyson was paid $5 million for the fight, which was on the low end of purses he has made in his career. After his creditors got $2 million, the IRS got its cut and his ex-wife got $750,000, so there wasn't much left for the fighter.

Tyson still owes nearly $40 million and there were plans for him to fight up to seven times to pay off the debt. But those plans didn't include Tyson taking the kind of beating that McBride was beginning to administer to him in the fifth and sixth rounds.

McBride was paid $150,000, the same amount he turned down last year to fight Tyson. McBride has an intimidating nickname in the Clones Colossus, but has been knocked out four times and has never beaten a boxer of any note.

One of those knockout losses came in 1998 in England to a fighter named Michael Murray, who won only one time in his last 17 fights - against McBride.


http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/3682902

[Sean Martin]

This is the first thread in the sports section (including my own) that I actually enjoyed reading. Good job Steve.

[Chain]

Tyson was weary by the fifth round and, in the sixth round, he was penalized two points for deliberately head butting McBride and opening a cut over his left eye.A big mistake on Mikeyrilla's part. He shoulda gone for the ear or maybe the dick. Even a niggerjawed bite around the ankle area would have caused trouble.

I believe the odds were 9 to 1 in favor of Tyson weren't they?

[Chain]

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Hey Stan, that reminds me- please put in our copy of Canadian Pat Travers' "Boom Boom- Out Go The Lights" in the next Vanguard Radio signal later today.
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[Subrosa]

I know I'll be jumped on for this, but Mikyerilla (LOL thanks Chain) is washed up and anyone could have beaten him.

Nice to see a White Man lay a wooping on that fugly ape though. Really nice.

[IrishJay]

I knew McBride's fight history and, quite frankly, he is bad. However, Tyson has shown to be a shitty fighter as of late with his lack of stamina and lack of punching power anymore.

It is amazing that McBride won, although I was rooting for the Mick.

I've followed Tyson's career as well, and Doppelhaken is 100% correct. When he fired Rooney it was the beginning of the end. Those guys knew how to motivate Tyson and when he mismanaged (or his people did) his money and he got a taste of the "lazy, rich life" he lost his motivation that people like Rooney could have kept alive. He had a rage unsurpassed in any fighter and a punch that was sick. He demolished the heavyweight ranks as a younger fighter and a good trainer would have recognized that he was not overpowering his later opponents and adapted his training accordingly, instead he was surrounded by yes men who kissed his ass, used him and allowed him to be a savage.

Tyson needs to blame himself for his poor choices and the people who were in charge of him also need to be held accountable for allowing this grown child to act the way he did without keeping him in line.

Boxing is full of miscreants and Tyson was one of the top whackos in the sport's history. His legacy is totally tainted from being a monster in the ring to being a laughingstock.

I wonder where he will be 5 years from now?

[N.B. Forrest]

I of course was delighted by McBride's near miraculous (considering his incredibly slow reflexes & lack of talent) victory over the ape. Heayweights like Tyson - small ones who rely on hand speed & punching power - have short primes, whereas a true heavy can fight on successfully for years. "Iron" Mike was exposed as plastic in 1990 when he finally faced one of those true heavies - and one that wasn't intimidated by his fearsome rep (Buster Douglas). From that point on, whenever a big man called his bluff and stood up to him in that way - hitting him with straight, hard punches, thereby not allowing him to get inside to throw those haymakers with his short arms - the lump of shit inevitably collapsed like a $2 suitcase.

Worldwide humiliation is what that evil monkey - who boasted of knocking old ladies' teeth out when he robbed them - richly deserves. I hope the beast either offs himself or continues getting his ass whipped until his rudimentary brain dissolves like sugar.

[White Winger]

I knew McBride's fight history and, quite frankly, he is bad. However, Tyson has shown to be a shitty fighter as of late with his lack of stamina and lack of punching power anymore.

It is amazing that McBride won, although I was rooting for the Mick.

I've followed Tyson's career as well, and Doppelhaken is 100% correct. When he fired Rooney it was the beginning of the end. Those guys knew how to motivate Tyson and when he mismanaged (or his people did) his money and he got a taste of the "lazy, rich life" he lost his motivation that people like Rooney could have kept alive. He had a rage unsurpassed in any fighter and a punch that was sick. He demolished the heavyweight ranks as a younger fighter and a good trainer would have recognized that he was not overpowering his later opponents and adapted his training accordingly, instead he was surrounded by yes men who kissed his ass, used him and allowed him to be a savage.

Tyson needs to blame himself for his poor choices and the people who were in charge of him also need to be held accountable for allowing this grown child to act the way he did without keeping him in line.

Boxing is full of miscreants and Tyson was one of the top whackos in the sport's history. His legacy is totally tainted from being a monster in the ring to being a laughingstock.

I wonder where he will be 5 years from now?


Don't forget,a racist moolinyan even more evil than Tyson,named Don King, had an enormous hand in his destruction and downfall.For starters,filling his head with BS about Kevin Rooney and the rest of his corner men , leading to them being kicked out,in favor of corner men who just kissed his ass and told him what he wanted to hear. His corner consisted of nothing but such people,by the time of the Buster Douglas fight.That was a very big reason why he lost to him;I still remember during the minute between the rounds,none of them motivating him or telling him what he needed to hear,just something along the lines of: "You're doing real good,Mike,just keep it up" .

Yes,Tyson is to blame,but Don King is ,and always has been ,far guiltier,of so much more.This silver back gangsta truly deserves to be destroyed.

[YANKEE_JIM]

Boxing is full of miscreants and Tyson was one of the top whackos in the sport's history. His legacy is totally tainted from being a monster in the ring to being a laughingstock.

I wonder where he will be 5 years from now?

Probably right back where he started, in Brownsville, New York (http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~chihyuan/pages/TYSBIO.HTM) (right next to East New York, where my wife was born and raised)...doing stickups again. :D

http://ringwork.com/Images/68.jpg



This was not the last time Iron Mike and Blood Green would meet. In the early morning hours of August 23, 1988, Mike Tyson stopped by Dapper Dans, a Harlem clothing store frequented by a clientele from rap stars to pimps. Tyson was there to pick up a custom made jacket.

http://www.antekprizering.com/tysongreenposter.html




Hey Jay...can you believe I told Gliebe I'd take him up to Catskill, NY (http://ringwork.com/Bios.aspx?BioBoxer=68) (30 miles north of me) if he was ever up in my neck of the woods? LOL!

-Yankee Jim

[Antiochus Epiphanes]

Tyson started going downhill as soon as he broke free of the Kevin Rooney, Teddy Atlas, Cus D'Amato leash. Yes, he's been finished for years as a fighter. As a promotion, no. Many people still confuse the two. In fact, I've never seen a nigger invested with more superhuman hype than him, and that's saying something, in this anti-reality media hothouse. Linder's hothouse metaphor applies perfectly to Tyson. With the strictest 24/7 watchful discipline of whites imposed on him by the aforementioned, he was a peerless destroyer of mostly sub-human flesh. The second that support system, that structural routine was removed from his daily life, it was the beginning of the end.

He will continue the stumblebum show; there's still money to be made off him.

There's a lot of truth to that statement: lots of whites still think he's some sort of unbeatable monster, some nigger superman.

Who's the Puerto Rican fighter/ journalist who wrote the book on Tyson? Forget his name. That was his thesis as well, or prediction, and it came while Tyson was still on top but had just come under Don King's spell.

[Steve B]

Who's the Puerto Rican fighter/ journalist who wrote the book on Tyson? Forget his name. That was his thesis as well, or prediction, and it came while Tyson was still on top but had just come under Don King's spell.

Jose Torres, Fire and Fear, The Inside Story of Mike Tyson

[IrishJay]

That's funny, Jim..... LOL!!!!

[IrishJay]

Don't forget,a racist moolinyan even more evil than Tyson,named Don King, had an enormous hand in his destruction and downfall.For starters,filling his head with BS about Kevin Rooney and the rest of his corner men , leading to them being kicked out,in favor of corner men who just kissed his ass and told him what he wanted to hear. His corner consisted of nothing but such people,by the time of the Buster Douglas fight.That was a very big reason why he lost to him;I still remember during the minute between the rounds,none of them motivating him or telling him what he needed to hear,just something along the lines of: "You're doing real good,Mike,just keep it up" .

Yes,Tyson is to blame,but Don King is ,and always has been ,far guiltier,of so much more.This silver back gangsta truly deserves to be destroyed.
I totally agree...that is what I was alluding to in my post as well.

King is scum, total scum. Whereas he should be helping his fellow black men, instead he preys on them.

[Rob Roy MacGregor]

I totally agree...that is what I was alluding to in my post as well.

King is scum, total scum. Whereas he should be helping his fellow black men, instead he preys on them.

Sportslaw History: Don King







The flamboyant boxing promoter Don King has made his mark in the courtroom as well as the ring. The ruling against him in the Supreme Court is just the latest chapter in his long involvement with the law. He has a criminal record and a number of civil lawsuits to call his own. Despite all his legal troubles, he has managed not only to stay one step ahead of the law, but to maintain his position of the dominant player in the often sordid sport of boxing.



King rose to boxing prominence by creating the George Foreman - Ali bout in Zaire in 1974 (the so-called "Rumble in the Jungle"). Each fighter received $5 million -- an unheard sum at the time -- because King got President Mobutu, the dictator of Zaire (now Congo), to put up the money for the fight.


King's first profession was in the illegal numbers business in Cleveland. In December 1954, King shot and killed one of three men trying to rob one of his gambling houses. Prosecutors determined King was defending himself and declared the death a "justifiable homicide."




Twelve years later, also in Cleveland, King beat a man to death who owed him money on the streets of Cleveland. Although convicted of second-degree murder, the trial judge (for reasons unknown) reduced the conviction from murder to manslaughter. Not only did King serve a short term of 3 1/2 years, he would receive a pardon from then Ohio governor James Rhodes.




Since then, King has stayed away from criminal court, but has given civil lawyers considerable employment. As the de facto head of an unregulated industry where boxers have little legal protection, he has exploited his power and skills to the detriment of many of those who battle in the ring.




But he has been sued for various contract and tort grounds and been investigated by the FBI and questioned by Congress. In 1977, a heavyweight tournament he promoted was tarnished when it was discovered that fighters' records had been falsified. ABC was embarrassed and diminished its role in boxing, but King moved on.




Years later, the an FBI probe uncovered evidence of payoffs, possible racketeering and an "association" with mob figures like John Gotti and Michael Franzese. When King was questioned during a 1992 Senate investigation about his Gotti connection, King took the Fifth Amendment.




In 1984, the IRS came calling. King was indicted on tax fraud and conspiracy. The president of his promotion company was convicted, but he was acquitted.* After the acquittal, King demonstrated his gratitude by taking them on an all-expenses-paid trip to London to see Frank Bruno fight heavyweight champion Tim Witherspoon. Some of the jurors asked for his autograph after the trial.




Speaking of Witherspoon, he was one of the few fighters to successfully sue King. He won a $900,000 judgment, but he saw little of that money.




Others have not been as "fortunate." Muhammad Ali sued King after his 1980 fight with Larry Holmes, claiming King shortchanged his purse by $1.2 million. He later settled for $50,000. Holmes said: "I make more money with Don King stealing from me than 100 percent from other promoters." Hardly a sterling endorsement of the business.




In 1998, prosecutors charged that King had cheated Lloyd's of London out of $350,000 in training expenses for a scheduled Julio Cesar Chavez fight in 1991 that was canceled. King was acquitted of insurance fraud, and he took the jury members and their families to the Bahamas and then to Atlanta to watch heavyweight champion Holyfield fight Vaughn Bean. King reportedly gave them envelopes of money for shopping on the islands.




King tried to manipulate the outcome of a bout. Mike Tyson was upset by Buster Douglas in February 1990 in Tokyo. King attempted to get World Boxing Council President Jose Suliaman to overturn the result, claiming the referee long-counted Douglas when Tyson put him down earlier in the fight.




King has been accused of coercing his clients into signing contracts with remark clauses (a practice barred by the Muhammad Ali Boxing Act).




Tyson filed a $100 million lawsuit against King, charging that the promoter had stolen money from him.




In 2000, International Boxing Federation founder Robert W. Lee went on trial on 33 counts of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, fraud and other charges in a federal investigation that uncovered payoffs for ranking fighters. King was an unindicted co-conspirator.




Lee was acquitted of all but six charges, including the bribery charges, making it impossible to go after King. However, King's rival promoters Cedric Kushner and Bob Arum cooperated with the and for their efforts (including testimony on payoffs made), they were each fined and and suspended by several states.




As Don King has said: "Only in America."




Sources:


Washington Times




Sportsbusinessnews.com

http://www.sportslawnews.com/archive/history/DonKingHistory.htm

[Sumadinac]

here's some interesting comments from Iron Mike:

On Boxing
"Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's a highly intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it."
"How dare these boxers challenge me with their primitive skills? It makes me angry. They're just as good as dead."
"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."
"It's interesting that you put me in the league with those illustrious fighters, but I've proved since my career I've surpassed them as far my popularity. I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register."
"Without discipline, no matter how good you are, you are nothing! One day, and I might not be around; you're going to meet a tough guy who takes your best shot. He'll keep coming because he's tough. Don't get discouraged. That's when the discipline comes in."
"I just want them to keep bringing guys on and I'm going to strip them of their health. I bring pain, a lot of pain."

On the Media
“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.”
"It's no doubt I am going to win this fight and I feel confident about winning this fight. I normally don't do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn't talk anymore... Unless you want to, you know."
"People going to say what they say. It has to be for a reason. It's just for a reason. I know sometimes I say things; I offend people. I ask this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain too. I have some pain I'm gonna have for the rest of my life. And Lewis, I'm trying to give some of that pain to ya'll."
"You gentlemen have no idea what it's like to be myself, no idea what it's like. I'm not interested in being humiliated anymore."
"I just seem to keep buying more and more Bentleys"
"Sometimes you guys have no pride, so no matter what I say, you guys ... it doesn't affect you because you don't care about nothing but money. So every now and then I kick your f**king ass and stomp on you and put some kind of pain and inflict some of the pain on you because you deserve to feel the pain that I feel."
"If I take this camera and put it in your face for 20 years, I don't know what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on you since you were 13 years old. I've been on that camera since I was 13 years old."

On Himself
"The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in."
"I'm not Mother Teresa. But I'm also not Charles Manson!"
"Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn."
"I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too. I think it's un-American not to go out with a woman, not to be with a beautiful woman, not to get my dick sucked ... It's just what I said before, everybody in this country is a big f**king liar. The Media tells people ... that this person did this and this person did that and then we find out that were just human and we find out that Michael Jordan cheats on his wife just like everybody else and that we all cheat on our f**king wife in one way or another either emotionally, physically or sexually or one way."
"There's no one perfect. We're always gonna do that. Jimmy Swaggart is lascivious, Mike Tyson is lascivious -- but we're not criminally, at least I'm not, criminally lascivious. You know what I mean. I may like to fornicate more than other people -- it's just who I am. I sacrifice so much of my life, can I at least get laid? I mean, I been robbed of my most of my money, can I at least get oral sex without the people wanting to harass me and wanting to throw me in jail?"
"At times, I come across as crude or crass, that irritates you when I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot at times. But I like to be that person. I like to show you all that person because that's who you come to see."
"I'm the most irresponsible person in the world. The reason I'm like that is because, at 21, you all gave me $50 or $100 million, and I didn't know what to do. I'm from the ghetto. I don't know how to act. One day I'm in a dope house robbing somebody. The next thing I know, 'You're the heavyweight champion of the world.' ... Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child. I'm being abused. I'm being robbed by lawyers. I think I have more money than I do. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks I'm someone. And you tell me I should be responsible?"

On His Mental Health
"I don't know if I'm mentally sick, but I have... episodes sometimes. I'm a depressant kind of dude. I have episodes, and I'm human. But no one cares about my health as a human because sometimes I'm in my episodes when I'm at work."
"Well, suicide goes through everyone's mind, I'm sure. And if it doesn't I really must be crazy. Everyone thinks about that because sometimes, you know what I mean, it's just tough being a nigger and it's tough being a bad nigger."

On America
"I'm just a dark guy from a den of iniquity. A dark shadowy figure from the bowels of iniquity. I wish I could be Mike who gets an endorsement deal. But you can't make a lie and a truth go together. This country wasn't built on moral fiber. This country was built on rape, slavery, murder, degradation and affiliation with crime."

On Religion
"All praise is to Allah, I'll fight any man, any animal, if Jesus were here I'd fight him too."
"I feel like sometimes that I was born, that I'm not meant for this society because everyone here is a f**king hypocrite. Everybody says they believe in God but they don't do God's work. Everybody counteracts what God is really about. If Jesus was here, do you think Jesus would show me any love? Do you think Jesus would love me? I'm a Muslim, but do you think Jesus would love me ... I think Jesus would have a drink with me and discuss ... why you acting like that? Now, he would be cool. He would talk to me. No Christian ever did that and said in the name of Jesus even ... They'd throw me in jail and write bad articles about me and then go to church on Sunday and say Jesus is a wonderful man and he's coming back to save us. But they don't understand that when he comes back, that these crazy greedy capitalistic men are gonna kill him again."
Stacey McKinley: "He sees a guy beggin' in the street and he gives him a hundred dollars. I'll say, 'Man, y'know the guy's just gonna spend it on crack!' But he says, 'I leave it to Allah to judge him.'"
"I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried."

[_DC_]

Heh....


"My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel is muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm."

Nigger with a dictionary.

“I want to throw down your kid and stomp on his testicles, and then you will know what it is like to experience waking up everyday as me. And only then will you feel my pain.”

Nigger being a nigger. "I hurt people cuz I a victim!"

I ask this lady a lewd question because I'm in a lot of pain too.

"I a victim!"

"I'm the most irresponsible person in the world. The reason I'm like that is because, at 21, you all gave me $50 or $100 million, and I didn't know what to do. I'm from the ghetto. I don't know how to act. One day I'm in a dope house robbing somebody. The next thing I know, 'You're the heavyweight champion of the world.' ... Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child. I'm being abused. I'm being robbed by lawyers. I think I have more money than I do. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks I'm someone. And you tell me I should be responsible?"

Nigger telling the truth. Don't try treating them as humans, they don't know what to do. How can you blame the animal for being an animal? Just shoot it like a rabid dog. Jews should be reported for cruelty to animals when they put a nigger in a suit.

[IrishJay]

Those quotes made me laugh. :)

[odin]

I knew McBride's fight history and, quite frankly, he is bad. However, Tyson has shown to be a shitty fighter as of late with his lack of stamina and lack of punching power anymore.

It is amazing that McBride won, although I was rooting for the Mick.

I've followed Tyson's career as well, and Doppelhaken is 100% correct. When he fired Rooney it was the beginning of the end. Those guys knew how to motivate Tyson and when he mismanaged (or his people did) his money and he got a taste of the "lazy, rich life" he lost his motivation that people like Rooney could have kept alive. He had a rage unsurpassed in any fighter and a punch that was sick. He demolished the heavyweight ranks as a younger fighter and a good trainer would have recognized that he was not overpowering his later opponents and adapted his training accordingly, instead he was surrounded by yes men who kissed his ass, used him and allowed him to be a savage.

Tyson needs to blame himself for his poor choices and the people who were in charge of him also need to be held accountable for allowing this grown child to act the way he did without keeping him in line.

Boxing is full of miscreants and Tyson was one of the top whackos in the sport's history. His legacy is totally tainted from being a monster in the ring to being a laughingstock.

I wonder where he will be 5 years from now? Looks like it'll be the Arizona State Penitentiary. :D