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The boxing world is so small and crazy sometimes. On June 11, 2005 famed Massachusetts trainer Goody Petronelli worked the corner for his fighter Kevin McBride in the match that will go down in history as the final one of Mike Tyson's career as Tyson stayed sitting upright on the floor up against the ropes, refusing to get up, thereby losing the fight on a technical knockout.
As a trainer, Goody never got the chance to have one of his boxers face the prime (young and ferocious) Tyson but that's not to say he was never in the opposite corner when Mike was in his younger days. It is crazy for me to think how you would have to rewind all the way back to the middle of 1982 (twenty-four years!) to see the first time Tyson stood across the ring from Goody at the Region One USA/ABF (aka the AAU) tournament where Goody's boxer (and my former amateur teammate, Kilbert Pierce) lost that decision to Mike in just KP's tenth amateur match at Freeport Hall in Dorcester.
As a trainer, Goody never got the chance to have one of his boxers face the prime (young and ferocious) Tyson but that's not to say he was never in the opposite corner when Mike was in his younger days. It is crazy for me to think how you would have to rewind all the way back to the middle of 1982 (twenty-four years!) to see the first time Tyson stood across the ring from Goody at the Region One USA/ABF (aka the AAU) tournament where Goody's boxer (and my former amateur teammate, Kilbert Pierce) lost that decision to Mike in just KP's tenth amateur match at Freeport Hall in Dorcester.