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Mike Tyson loves beating up people but he doesn't like to fight, two entirely different things. As long as everything is going his way and he has his opponent already scared before he gets in the ring with or he is beating him up. But put up some resistance and Iron Mike cracks.
It goes all the way back to his days of muggin old ladies in the streets. He likes a helpless victim. There are averege Joe's in in bars out there who are mentally more tougher then Tyson is and who really love a fight. The type of guy who smashes a beer bottle over his own head and says common, "i'll fight all 5 of you guys", and he does, gets his ass kicked but still walks out of the bar with a smile on his face. You would think Tyson is that guy with all his crazy antics but he is not.
As far as Roy Jones, with him it's a bit different then Tyson. Roy doesn't even like to beat up people, he just likes making them look bad. Roy likes to think of himself as a performer, not a fighter. He loves to go out and showboat for the fans to show them how easy it is. Like a musician goes out on stage solo and performs in front of the audience. This is the one thing that has held him back from truely measuring up with the Leonard's and the Ali's. See these guys had the Fraziers and the Hearns's to make them even greater. Roy could've had this with Hopkins but he never capitalized on it. See in King Roy's world it doesn't matter who the other fighter is in the ring, it's all about him. In his mind, his name should be written BIG on the fight poster while the opponents name is written small in the background. He never understood the concept of having a big fight/big event like The Fight of the Century in 1970 with Ali/Frazier where both fighters are equally as big. He just rather be the BIG fighter of the century with all the sanctioning body belts, playing basketball in the morning and kicking some opponents ass in the afternoon to show all of us how easy it is to him.
Psychologically, Roy is a Rap Artist in his mind. If his father hadn't dragged him into the gym as a boy, he would've become what his three sons are now, a musician.
It goes all the way back to his days of muggin old ladies in the streets. He likes a helpless victim. There are averege Joe's in in bars out there who are mentally more tougher then Tyson is and who really love a fight. The type of guy who smashes a beer bottle over his own head and says common, "i'll fight all 5 of you guys", and he does, gets his ass kicked but still walks out of the bar with a smile on his face. You would think Tyson is that guy with all his crazy antics but he is not.
As far as Roy Jones, with him it's a bit different then Tyson. Roy doesn't even like to beat up people, he just likes making them look bad. Roy likes to think of himself as a performer, not a fighter. He loves to go out and showboat for the fans to show them how easy it is. Like a musician goes out on stage solo and performs in front of the audience. This is the one thing that has held him back from truely measuring up with the Leonard's and the Ali's. See these guys had the Fraziers and the Hearns's to make them even greater. Roy could've had this with Hopkins but he never capitalized on it. See in King Roy's world it doesn't matter who the other fighter is in the ring, it's all about him. In his mind, his name should be written BIG on the fight poster while the opponents name is written small in the background. He never understood the concept of having a big fight/big event like The Fight of the Century in 1970 with Ali/Frazier where both fighters are equally as big. He just rather be the BIG fighter of the century with all the sanctioning body belts, playing basketball in the morning and kicking some opponents ass in the afternoon to show all of us how easy it is to him.
Psychologically, Roy is a Rap Artist in his mind. If his father hadn't dragged him into the gym as a boy, he would've become what his three sons are now, a musician.
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