Caption Mike Tyson!

Fox Sports ^ | 2/19/03 | None

[jjm2111]

"oops."

[stanz]

Resistance is futile. You are now part of the Borg collective.

[Cable225]

"Well, you thee, Lennox'th eyethight ithn't what it uthed to be sinthed he'th gettin older."

"I thought he might need a target for our next fight".

[SledgeCS]

"See I told ya I could get UGLIER"

[Moose4]

Oh, man, he looks bad. I mean, bad without the tattoo.

My sad prediction: He's dead inside 10 years, probably by his own hand. It's sad, I remember watching him on ESPN's "Top Rank Boxing" when Cus D'amato was still managing him and he was on his way up the ladder. I was stunned, I'd never seen anybody with that much raw concentrated whoop-ass in my life. It sucks to see what he's become.

}:-)4

[kinghorse]

"I would have gotten the unicorn but it cost 15 tickets. This cost 10. Still got enough for a snowcone!"

[HumanaeVitae]

I saw him take a guy out once with a front left hook. A front left hook! He was awesome...you're right, it's pretty sad.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Remember, early on, when they used to trot Tyson out on the talk shows and present him as some sort of savant who thoroughly studied and remembered every detail of boxing history. What a joke!

[b4its2late]

"I put this on my face to stop you from looking at my teeth."

[Mr. K]

Tyson: "I didn't think I looked nearly stupid enough"

[Moose4]

He did study boxing. Cus D'amato filled his head full of the stuff. Tyson's train started to come off the tracks when D'amato died.

Tyson when he was 18, 19, 20 years old was just the most incredible thing to watch. I never saw a physique like that on a heavyweight boxer before, he was cut like a bodybuilder. And when that bell rang, he turned into the Tasmanian Devil. I'd rather remember him like that than the mentally ill sideshow freak that he's become.

}:-)4

[socal_parrot]

[MississippiMan]

I remember watching him on ESPN's "Top Rank Boxing" when Cus D'amato was still managing him and he was on his way up the ladder. I was stunned, I'd never seen anybody with that much raw concentrated whoop-ass in my life. It sucks to see what he's become.

Me too. He was an awesome force. I believe if he'd had competent management to keep him in line after Cus died, he could've been the greatest boxer in the history of the sport. When in form, he looked utterly unvincible.

MM

[verity]

Maroon. ;~)

[jra]

IMO, the decline REALLY started when he and his former trainer, Kevin Rooney, split ways.

[SquirrelKing]

"Riverdance has GOT to take me now!"

[HamiltonJay]

Will this distinguishing characteristic confuse my next rape victim?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I didn't say he didn't study boxing history. However presenting him as some sort of genius was a complete and utter media fabrication.

I also think that Tyson has always been a punk and a sideshow freak. That is his true nature. Rooney and D'Amato kept him focused and on the straight and narrow (most of the time) long enough to harness his raw talent for a period of time.

He was a powerful and devastating force. Although I question the talent level of much of the competition that he faced early on, that wasn't Tyson's fault. That was simply all that was out there.

Managed properly (i.e. had Cus lived longer), Tyson might've been remembered by many as one of the greatest of all time. (Although I would've argued against it.)