Posted on 08/02/2004 9:33:42 AM PDT by walford
---and at almost the same time Tyson was convicted, the Kennedy mutt, out wandering around drunk with Uncle Teddy, most likely got away with a real rape----
Yeah, yeah......We've all heard Tyson's sob story many times before. Fact is that many boxers that grew up under similar circumstances managed to fight their way out of it and take responsibility for their lives.
The tragedy isn't what more Tyson could have accomplished as a fighter but as a person. Tyson had every opportunity to be a great role model, to contribute to the community, to help out millions of black youth, etc. Now Tyson can't even help himself.
Stop it! Stop it! I feel so bad. Can we have a rematch? (Sarc.)
I always thought he was a frustrated, moronic, criminal-bully.
Turns out, he's a victim of everyone, of everything.
That poor, poor man.
This is a blame everybody else but me story, what a bunch of crap. He made his choices all by himself, and now he is paying for them. Coulda, woulda, shoulda, didn't.
Leave it up to some blowhard to bruit the beast.
I don't buy this premise for a second. Tyson, at his peak, was a good fighter but not a great one. His reign as Champion was marked by a lack of good competition. Try to name one really good fighter that he beat. His reign was dominated by bum of the month fights like Pinklon Thomas, Michael Spinks, etc. Tyson could not have beat Ali, Foreman, Fraizer or Larry Holnes at their peak.
I, too, believe that many took advantage of a mentally deficient, unstable young man.
I expect him to die penniless or violently in the next decade or so.
His movement in the ring was so terrifyingly graceful. He gave lie to the common misperception of the Sweet Science perpetrated by the likes of the Rocky movies – that boxing was essentially two brutes bashing each other until one fell down
Or one brute biting off another brute's ear. How "Scientific" is that?
I blame Bush - and global warming...
September 10, 1990, that is.
Poor Mikey. I guess I was wrong all this time when I thought he was a common thug. Just because he beat up old ladies and stole their money as a teen doesn't make him a bad person. Just because even he admitted that he has done much worse than the rape accusation doesn't make him a bad person. Apparently, all those people he beat nearly to death on the streets in NY, and supposedly the people he has killed, they were not the real victims. All this time I have been mistaken. Mike Tyson is the victim. Oh I feel so sorry for him. </sarcasm>
I think his marriage with Robin Givens led to his downfall, IMO...
PLEASE!! Tyson is the all-time poster boy for "Loser". He squandered $300 million, was convicted of felony rape and tatooed his face. All his doing. Now the interest is to see how low he will sink before offing himself. Michael Jackson laughs at Tyson.
The author completely ignores the role of Don King, who is probably the major factor in Tyson's decline after D'Amato died. King was only interested in Tyson's money and failed to provide someone who could give him adequate mentoring, training etc. He let one of the most dominant boxers of his generation self destruct. Mike Tyson became the South Africa of boxing.
succubus:
But, I still feel sorry for the guy. After D'Amato's death, not a single person in Tyson's life cared one whit for him. They were all--everyone of them--nothing but squealing piglets who saw Tyson as a big tit.
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