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As Mike Tyson stayed on his stool, his trainer Jeff Fenech informing referee Joe Cortez that the former heavyweight prodigy was retiring from the bout, I had unwittingly found an answer to a question raised by Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley on HBO's competing Boxing After Dark broadcast.
Noticing that the boxing writers from most major newspapers were not present for Miguel Cotto's revenge match against Muhammad Abdullaev at the Madison Square Garden, instead opting for the “freak show” in Washington, D.C., over the “real fight” in New York City, the commentators, perhaps properly, insulted the state of the sweet science.
But as I left my seat to make my way to the post-fight press conference, I knew that the “freak show,” the circus-like train wreck that Mike Tyson has become in the past decade and a half, is capable of producing a story so astonishing that it becomes pertinent, no matter how irrelevant Iron Mike has become on the championship scene.
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Noticing that the boxing writers from most major newspapers were not present for Miguel Cotto's revenge match against Muhammad Abdullaev at the Madison Square Garden, instead opting for the “freak show” in Washington, D.C., over the “real fight” in New York City, the commentators, perhaps properly, insulted the state of the sweet science.
But as I left my seat to make my way to the post-fight press conference, I knew that the “freak show,” the circus-like train wreck that Mike Tyson has become in the past decade and a half, is capable of producing a story so astonishing that it becomes pertinent, no matter how irrelevant Iron Mike has become on the championship scene.
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