Was Bonecrusher Smith the most hated opponent of Tyson

[billeau2]

And Mike was lucky Mitch was an older drugged-up version, a younger Green might have been a nightmare for him.

Yeah Green was a lot like Mccall on some respects, he was his own worse enemy and could have been a lot better with some self control and mentership. Guys like this grew up at the wrong time in history. One can imagine in another life Green as a knight kn medieval Europe. The guy would be fearless! Probably be a hell of a warrior.

In our society we make these guys hard through society...then this quality backfires and they become jailbound. Its a shame.

[joeandthebums]

Good book on the guys who fought Tyson, read it a few times and kept it somewhere around the house.

Sure Smith the counsellor referred to in the pitch below.



In the late 1980s heavyweight boxing was ruled by one man - Mike Tyson. No one could touch him, it seemed, but nonetheless a generation of fighters tried.

From 1986 to 1989, Mitch Green, Reggie Gross, Marvis Frazier, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker and Carl Williams all attempted to bring Tyson to his knees. They all failed.

Everyone knows the story of Tyson's decline and fall - the manchild who seemed poised to become one of the greatest boxers in history is now a disgraced relic - but what happened to the men he defeated during his irrepressible prime?

In The Long Round, Dominic Calder-Smith talks to these men nearly twenty years on - the Baptist minister, the drugs counsellor, the security guard at Ground Zero, the convicted assassin and many of their contemporaries - tracing their lives from their upbringings and years of promise to their encounters with Tyson and the present day.

The Long Round explores, openly and honestly, the pain they felt in defeat and their subsequent search for self-respect, their problems with drugs and relationships, their legal woes and financial mismanagements.

[Dynamite76]

Yeah Green was a lot like Mccall on some respects, he was his own worse enemy and could have been a lot better with some self control and mentership. Guys like this grew up at the wrong time in history. One can imagine in another life Green as a knight kn medieval Europe. The guy would be fearless! Probably be a hell of a warrior.

In our society we make these guys hard through society...then this quality backfires and they become jailbound. Its a shame.

Very true, instead of productive citizens,they become madmen and worse.

[Emon723]

I believe Mitch Green holds that distinction.

I was thinking of Tyson's title fights that I forgot Mitch Green, yes he does holds that distinction, and not only did Tyson hate him, Iron Mike was making fun of him in the ring.

[totalstranga]

just saw that Mitch Green fought in 2005. Who would've thunk it?!

[Thread Stealer]

Tyson really enjoyed giving Tyrell Biggs a long, brutal beating and making him cry like a woman.