Just watched the new award winning documentary on Mike Tyson and there's a few intriguing revelations in the movie.
1. After Robin Givens divorced him Tyson sank to a new low and admitted to not training hard for the Douglas fight. As evidence of how poorly he was training, Tyson admits that a sparring partner dropped him in sparring. A video is shown of Tyson being dropped in sparring as proof. I've never seen this video before though I have heard that he was dropped in sparring prior to the Douglas fight.
2. Tyson says he spent most of his younger years in a hospital with some sort of lung condition (sounded to me like asthma) and he cites this as evidence of why he tried so hard not to make his fights go the distance and why he had such trouble with any fight that began to go the distance...apparently Tyson suffered from some sort of lung problem/asthma/inability to breath enough oxygen that resulted in his infamously poor stamina.
1. After Robin Givens divorced him Tyson sank to a new low and admitted to not training hard for the Douglas fight. As evidence of how poorly he was training, Tyson admits that a sparring partner dropped him in sparring. A video is shown of Tyson being dropped in sparring as proof. I've never seen this video before though I have heard that he was dropped in sparring prior to the Douglas fight.
2. Tyson says he spent most of his younger years in a hospital with some sort of lung condition (sounded to me like asthma) and he cites this as evidence of why he tried so hard not to make his fights go the distance and why he had such trouble with any fight that began to go the distance...apparently Tyson suffered from some sort of lung problem/asthma/inability to breath enough oxygen that resulted in his infamously poor stamina.
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