How Lewis Broke The Mike Tyson Mystique: Part 1

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By Terence Dooley - In his autobiography, Bill Clinton talks about the idea of a person living parallel lives. Bill applies it to himself, in the absence of an available intern, by showing how he could, on the one hand, steer his country through a relatively prosperous time in terms of international relations (the USA was hated then, it is now merely derided) whilst also, with other hand, putting his political career into the mouth of danger by doing very bad (or good) things with Monica Lewinsky in the oval office. [details]

[v.cassiusali@ya]

when mike tyson era was over, so is the excitement in the heavyweight division. when can we see another mike tyson again?

[pelonxsoldier28]

I Would'nt Say The Excitment Was Over, But The Ferocity Of It Was Over. This Artical Is Basically Saying Mike Is Not A Legend, And Hyped Up. I Think Tyson Is In The Top 5 Of All Time Heavyweights. He Was A Killer, Untill He Was Finally Killed. I Would Still Buy A Ppv To See Him Fight Today

[Motofan]

Im a big Lewis fan, but damn that guy just went out of his way to just **** on Tyson every way that he could. Not written very fairly at all.

[DURAN_IS_GOD]

I Would'nt Say The Excitment Was Over, But The Ferocity Of It Was Over. This Artical Is Basically Saying Mike Is Not A Legend, And Hyped Up. I Think Tyson Is In The Top 5 Of All Time Heavyweights. He Was A Killer, Untill He Was Finally Killed. I Would Still Buy A Ppv To See Him Fight Today

a top 5 heavyweight? ridiculous mate. tyson was a bully, he folded under pressure

[-CANE-]

Im a big Lewis fan, but damn that guy just went out of his way to just **** on Tyson every way that he could. Not written very fairly at all.

He did **** on Tyson but most of it is true as I have said myself on many occasions just check my posts. He didn't make Lewis out to be unbeatable though and did criticize him for his lacklustre performances.

[duffgun]

I didnt read the article but Holyfield Broke The Mike Tyson Mystique

[MickyHatton]

This article is a lopsided nevertheless it does contain elements of the truth.

I grew up and worshiped Tyson for a period, I eat up the hype and watched as he destroyed Berbick to win his title, I watched as all these heavyweights came and went, listened as names like Biggs, Tubbs and Thomas fell.
I even believed the hype when he beat an ageing Holmes even though he was way past his best and had just come off two defeats to Spinks. I watched in disbelief as he destroyed the terrified Spinks and again believed the hype.

The fights were he didn't shine i.e. Smith and Tucker I took to be that he had an off night or that they were great fighters.

Douglas got Tyson on another off night but this time Douglas was big but could fight, I started to question Tyson's actual ability then.

Then we had fighters like Stewart, Tillman, McNeeley and Buster Mathis etc, the first real fighter he faced was Holyfield, he lost OK, people lose but to then come back and react the way he did in the rematch!!!

Any respect I had for him was now gone. I took off my rose tinted specs and realised he was over hyped, not as a puncher or finisher, not as an exciting fighter or spectacle but as a Champion/Boxer/Legend.

His remaining fights backed this up IMO.

BTW before anyone throws in the prison spell etc, fine but who's fault was that? He lost to Douglas prior to prison and came out in his 20's.

[Mike Tyson77]

Lewis broke a 36 year old Tyson and that's it.

[Smoking]

what a piece of **** article, its so biased i didnt even bother completing it. Why do fools hurt their own credibility? It makes the truthful elements in their article valueless coz there are some good points in there

These guys need to go to college and learn some basics on the essence of writing