The beginning is the interview after his last fight. It's a really good video.
I watched it. He took so many cheap shots I can never respect him as a champ, sorry. He was a great fighter and a great puncher, but not a great champion. I do not look up to him.
im not afraid of anyone
That's the post of someone who has never stepped in a ring. Every boxer is afraid, we just push past it and do what we need to. Some are just man enough to admit it, others aren't. You'll never be anything if you can't be honest with yourself. Part of boxing is learning to conquer your fear and not letting it get in the way of your fights.
No. It was changed from 15 to 12 rounds for fighter safety. With already enough complications facing boxers it would be a bad idea. Sure maybe more KOs, but more deaths, more brain damage, more Pugilistic Parkinson's syndrome. I enjoy seeing KOs, but as a boxer I do not enjoy seeing injuries.
I would like to see championship fights returning to 15 rounds. Some of the greatest fights in history would've had different outcomes had it been 12 rounds. Hearns vs Leonard, Marciano vs Walcott etc. And a lot of today's fight would have different outcomes if it were 15 rounds.
There's no guarantee that there would be no fatalities in a 12 round fight. Leavander Johnson, McClellan, Victor Burgos all suffered brain injuries for fights that lasted 12 rounds or less. These are accidents that sadly happen in this sport.
The propensity for these injuries to occur increase exponentially with each additional round. Not only does the round reduction provide more protection to the boxers, it also protects the sport of boxing. Many American Neurologists are already lobbying to ban boxing, why give them more ammo?
There is a difference between the Tyson that fought Lewis and Holyfield than the one that fought under Rooney. Tyson the boxer ended after Spinks.
Again, people will continue to just look at one complete version of Tyson, which isn't fare. I don't do this with Ali either. Anybody that says Ali was the same after exile is blind.
Any time there is this "Fantasy" matchup between Tyson and Ali, I always mention, take Tyson while he was with Rooney and Ali prior to his exile. The Tyson that fought Douglas and The Ali that fought Frazier is are not the same fighter.
The problem with both is that they were young when they declined; Tyson because his life fell off out of boxing and he got rid of Rooney and Ali because he was forced into exile, which caused rust, because of his political stand.
Look at Tyson's concentration on head-movement and combinations in his training while with the D'amato team. Who was there to train him like this after Rooney?
For the jab, sure, a jab can be problems with any fighter, but this is why Tyson worked on timing and bobbing and weaving...something that declined after Rooney.
Tucker had a decent jab which was fast, was 6'5, 82 inch reach, but Tyson still out-jabbed him.
I'm my mind a true champion doesn't fade after 3-4 years. Lennox Lewis beat everyone that was somebody in the heavy weight division, can't say the same thing for Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson was hot when he started off, but because of personal problems he diminished. One can't really speculate what would or would not have happened had his life been different. All there is, is what really happened and that is Tyson declined and the real champions had a field day with him.
Tyson never had a respectable jab. He had good hand speed so he could get it out there sometimes, but nobody ever said look out for Tyson's jab. He wasn't a boxer, he was a slugger... sluggers only last so long in this sport.
Tyson was a great fighter, not so much a boxer... hence why he got into trouble when he came across boxers with an actual jab (Lennox Lewis/Evander Holyfield)