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I have not come here to praise Mike Tyson and I'm not here to bury him either. Tyson sat in ignominy on his stool after the sixth round of his recent Kevin McBride debacle that proved age is the final obstacle in Tyson's career. An obstacle that no fighter can overcome. One fight does not make a career and when a fighter has fought for two decades, he has a body of work to review and criticize.
Tyson started as a meteor that shot brightly in the night, but the flame quickly extinguished. In 1986, Tyson, at the age of 20, became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he knocked Trevor Berbick out in two rounds. During this period, his contemporaries such as Lennox Lewis and Rid**** Bowe, were fighting as amateurs and preparing for the 1988 Olympics. Tyson nemesis Evander Holyfield was still campaigning as a cruiserweight.
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Tyson started as a meteor that shot brightly in the night, but the flame quickly extinguished. In 1986, Tyson, at the age of 20, became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he knocked Trevor Berbick out in two rounds. During this period, his contemporaries such as Lennox Lewis and Rid**** Bowe, were fighting as amateurs and preparing for the 1988 Olympics. Tyson nemesis Evander Holyfield was still campaigning as a cruiserweight.
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