Tyson: The Power to Still Captivate us
November 28th, 2009
By Bruno Camuti: I recently saw an interview with Mike Tyson where he walked out after some pretty idiotic and insensitive questions were asked about his recently deceased daughter. At the time I was on the phone to a friend and when seeing that Tyson was on TV, I immediately stopped listening to the person on the other end of the phone and found myself glued to the TV waiting to hear what was going to come out of iron mikes mouth.
Both made headlines inside the ring and outside the ring, unfortunately Tyson will probably be remembered by many people for his many misdemeanours instead of his exceptional talent inside the ring. His explosive power and hand speed with the ability to dispatch opponents with frightening ease is how he should be remembered. Up until the Buster Douglas fight he was seen as invincible (the modern day sonny Liston) Many believe including myself that if Tyson could have stayed on the straight an narrow Tyson may have gone on to dominate for years, but hey who knows for sure right. After that fateful night in Tokyo Japan Tyson by his own admissions admits that his career was over. Anything after he said was not the real Mike Tyson. I tend to agree with mike here as it was plain to see post prison mike Tyson was not the same.
As a boxing fan I will always remember Iron Mike as an action packed fighter who picked up the slack in the heavyweight division when Muhammad Ali retired. A fighter who had us so hooked that we would stay up until 4am to watch a fight which would only last about 30 seconds (which we knew but still stayed up anyway) I’m pretty sure if Tyson said he was coming out of retirement to fight again many a fight fan would pay to watch it, just to see what happens. (I know I would) I struggle to find many fighters that have that kind of quality and have the ability to draw us in with such ease.
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iron mike tyson best boxer ever
Iron Mike was a top 5 heavyweight of alltime
Tyson..possibly greatest heavy of all time!
Ps to AMIR KHAN
You will crap yourself if Mike will look in your eyes!!!
Silly boy…
To some stupid comments above:
Tyson in his best shape will demolish everyone ( 1 by 1 )on this planet!!!
AMIR KHAN
Tyson was good guys but I think im better, If me and tyson fought I dont think he would have the power to trouble me, my speed would be too much 4 him, I can see myself stopping him late.
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Posing as someone else is pretty sad mate
Steven
Tyson was good guys but I think im better, If me and tyson fought I dont think he would have the power to trouble me, my speed would be too much 4 him, I can see myself stopping him late.
Mike Tyson interviews are great. The man tells it directly and how it is! He can never lie lol..
His fight agaisnt Spinks was the best fight ever!
In his prime Mike Tyson would beat anyone in the ring!
It’s ashame there are no fighters at the moment who are like him, he was one of a kind!
Pure 100% Aggression!
Ali was and is overrated.He was a moment in time when black folks needed a hero.Ali got a couple of lucky wins against frazier.Tyson was a great fighter but he had no guidance after Cus D’amato died. That was his down fall.Ali held people behind the head and punch, also he would stick his hand out and measured with it. All illegal now.
Spot on piece Bruno, and well written! The man just grabs your attention, and always will. I agree that, apart from Ali, there has never been a fighter that has drawn the attention and interest that Iron Mike did. Not just from the boxing world, but the world in general. Ask any non-boxing fan you know to name the best boxers of all time and most will struggle to come up with names other than Ali and Tyson. Shame about some of the less pleasant stuff that he will be remembered for, but I will always remember him for the destructive power and force that epitomised Tyson’s greatest years in the ring, – as I’m sure most boxing fans will. I don’t believe that any fighter since has been able to literally destroy opponents like Tyson could, and I think it will be a long time before another heavyweight comes along that will even get close to it. True Legend!
His career died when Cus D’amato died. He was Tyson’s backbone and the only reason he became a great fighter. His life is tragic, but he seems to have come out of all of it a slightly better person. Although still very emotionally out of control
I DONT BELIEVE NO HEAVY WILL EVER MAKE THE MONEY
OR GENERATE THE CROWD LIKE MIKE DID- EVERY BODY CAME TO SEE MIKE FIGHT -BACK THEN MIKE WOULD SELL OUT ANY VENUE! HAVE YOU EVER SAW A MIKE TYSON FIGHT NOT SOLD OUT?
i think its a pity that things turned out the way they did for tyson.In his prime i highly doubt any man could stop him i mean seriously check his training footage from that time( when he was 19 or so). tyson was a beast but unfortunately he got arrogant going into that buster douglas fight and that is when boxers lose.
MK should be prosectuted for his comments. Mike Tyson is thought of by many boxing experts to be the greatest boxer who ever stepped into the ring. Tyson’s ability is often compared to that of Ali.
Tyson is a great fighter, and a great man.
HEY MK, WHO ELSE DO WE HAVE IN THE HEAVYS? KLITS. BROS. THEY ARE BORING . THE HEAVYS ARE SOME GARBAGE SINCE MIKE- EVANDER,RUDDOCK,EVEN BOWE THOSE GUYS CAME TO FIGHT WIN OR LOSE!
benzo: you’re crazy. the last decent performance tyson had was against golota in 2000. etienne was a plastic dummy. in the other fights he looked awful. that’s 9 years. besides golota, the last decent performance was holyfield ii in 1997 which was 12 years ago. tyson is done and he was done many years ago.
his 1995 comeback was mostly a sham. plastic mcneely fight charged $45 for PPV, mathis was decent, bruno fight didn’t show anything we didn’t see before. tyson looked good against bruno but even that tyson would have appeared lackluster against other A contenders. seldon was a plastic doll. then we had the two holyfield fights where tyson didn’t do so well. got banned. that was his “comeback”.
tyson was an exciting and very good fighter from 1985 to 1992. that’s all i give him credit for. if he did some body shots against douglas he’d have had a better chance.
tyson makes top 20. ali, louis, liston, foreman, holmes, holyfield, lewis would surely beat him. there are other contenders that would have a good chance for any given night.
tyson’s interviews are awful. the man isn’t very well spoken.
mike fight again bring some fun back to the heavyweights get in shape please, if holyfield can do it you can