Tyson....fight?

[JP]

Anybody see it? What a joke...Just when you think this guy is gonna beat around some joker again like he did in the good ol' days, he quits! What a loser....I'm swearing off paying attention to this guy from now on. Shoulda been banned anyway.....

[Art]

Anybody see it? What a joke...Just when you think this guy is gonna beat around some joker again like he did in the good ol' days, he quits! What a loser....I'm swearing off paying attention to this guy from now on. Shoulda been banned anyway.....

Come on now, don't hate on my boy Iron Mike. I honestly feel sorry for the guy.. Who else do you know that carries an entire sport on his shoulders, and has for the last 20 years without being allowed to use father time as an excuse? He is waaaaay past his prime, but being the savior of boxing, he has been unlucky in that people don't realize what pressure he's been under in his life. Sure, he's made some DUMB mistakes but I think the sport of pro boxing on the national scene will retire with him. Think of all the great players in all sports who were in there prime when Tyson was, and then try and think of who of that group is still a dominate player.... The ONLY person I can think of that is still around and still a factor is Roger Clemens... Tons of others have come and gone several times over.

[skin_dog1]

Tyson is an idiot! He has done nothing in 15 years for boxing except give it a bigger black eye than it already had. He should've quit after the first loss out of prison. I guess answering to Bubba all those years took a little something from his desire!

[turk2di]

Hopefully, he's done this time! But who could blame him for $5 million!

[Art]

Tyson is an idiot! He has done nothing in 15 years for boxing except give it a bigger black eye than it already had. He should've quit after the first loss out of prison. I guess answering to Bubba all those years took a little something from his desire!

Maybe so, but what other boxer out there draws so much attention, is so well known, and is still a pay-per-view draw even after their career has fallen way off?? We'll see how much we hear about professional boxing from this point on. Love him or hate him, he IS boxing as far as the American public is concerned and I bet the sport will be less than what it is without him..

I know within my lifetime, there certainly was nobody better than he was in his prime, and possibly the best of all-time. Watching a Tyson fight as a kid in the mid 80's was a thrill. Tyson was right up there with Pete Rose, Michael Jordan, and Dan Marino..

[Willie]

Maybe so, but what other boxer out there draws so much attention, is so well known, and is still a pay-per-view draw even after their career has fallen way off?? We'll see how much we hear about professional boxing from this point on. Love him or hate him, he IS boxing as far as the American public is concerned and I bet the sport will be less than what it is without him..

I know within my lifetime, there certainly was nobody better than he was in his prime, and possibly the best of all-time. Watching a Tyson fight as a kid in the mid 80's was a thrill. Tyson was right up there with Pete Rose, Michael Jordan, and Dan Marino..

I disagree..

Muhammad Ali was a much better BOXER.

Mike had a better punch, but Ali could outbox him any day of the week.

[john4]

Pay per view for boxing has done the sport in. There are still a few cable channels that you can see boxing on (ESPN Friday night fights), but gone are the days of prime time NBC fights. IF there is ever another American fighter like Mike, boxing could be reguvinated if it was on one of the major networks on a Saturday afternoon.

[quackrstackr]

He's done. I haven't paid to see one of his fights in years since he was still on top. Stopped then because they never lasted passed the first round.


After his mentor died, he fell in with the wrong crowd and they took him straight down the tubes. Kind of sad actually.

[Turkeyhunter5]

didnt see the match. sounds like it sucked

[AteUp]

Maybe so, but what other boxer out there draws so much attention, is so well known, and is still a pay-per-view draw even after their career has fallen way off?? We'll see how much we hear about professional boxing from this point on. Love him or hate him, he IS boxing as far as the American public is concerned and I bet the sport will be less than what it is without him..

I know within my lifetime, there certainly was nobody better than he was in his prime, and possibly the best of all-time. Watching a Tyson fight as a kid in the mid 80's was a thrill. Tyson was right up there with Pete Rose, Michael Jordan, and Dan Marino..
I agree. (except for maybe the best of all time) I feel sorry for him because he doesn't have enough upstairs to make good decisions in life. He's almost like a child really.

[P. Beyer]

In boxing, if you lose your head,...You've lost it all.

I'll agree, in his day he was a gem to watch. I like his old tapes as much as old ALI, Foreman, Hearns, Hagler and such.

SO,.....What happened in the fight?

[Art]

Some scorers had him winning at the time. Sounded like he just gave up.

[RutNBuck]

i really enjoyed when Buster Douglas knocked some sense into him...also liked the Evander Holyfield -Tyson rematchs until the ear biting incident

also i dont think Tyson has the education or the personailty to be like a commentator for the sport..

he deinately drew crowds to the sport of boxing

[JP]

Oh...I'm not saying I never liked Tyson....Art's right, in the late 80s I LOVED watching the Tyson fights on HBO.....didn't miss one and wouldn't...I suppose watching him in the late 90s to now is just pitifully disappointing. I guess we all get old, but he just is getting older and dumber.

Oh, and P. He gave up. The big Irish guy pushed him down late in the 6th round...not even a punch, just pushed...Tyson was really giving him somewhat of a beating, but he was hanging in there. While he was down on the mat, the bell rung...................................Then....... ......in the 7th, Tyson just never got up off the stool....just sat there like a knot on a log, scared as a kid.......Almost as pitiful as that match I saw a few years ago with that guy that refused to come back out and just sat on the stool and cried.....Tyson didn't cry, but he may as well have.

I'm through with him. I once loved to watch him, now its just disgusting.

[B.G.O. of Kentucky]

Yep, Ali would have beat him like a rented mule. Mike was good for about 4-5 years, then fought schmucks for a while, then, when he had to fight the big names again, he was done. Evander made him look like an idiot. As a boxer, I know he is a putz, but I really respect Lennox, he fights boring, but effective. Rarely was he taken out of his fight, granted it was a boring fight, but he won.

Tyson was unreal for a few years, I mean he scared anyone who got in the ring with him, and he demolished them. Although I am not sure if he carrying the sport around on his shoulders him was worth the train wreck he caused.

He was entertaining, and I too never missed a fight of his in his prime, and we do indeed need someone else who brings some staying power with him. No one out there now, not in the Heavy Weight div that is.