hard to shake a lifetime of getting abused and fucked over by people
but he seems like he's been happy since he retired
getting out of boxing helped him
and getting in the HOF was an appeasing touch for him
Mike's calmed down, but still not a man to be fucked with
Ask him if he’ll ever box again and Tyson gives a hoarse laugh. “Oh, that’s over. You could offer me a billion dollars and I’d still say no. I have to be the best at something, otherwise I won’t do it. I’m too vain to be humiliated.”
Milan is back, wanting to play, but before I leave I’m curious to know one thing. Does he wish his mother had lived to see him become a world champion? “I don’t know,” he says uneasily. “My mother didn’t like me much. She always thought I was a braggart. She didn’t think that I could do it.”
His face brightens. “My father was impressed, though.” Smiling, he tells me about his father’s reappearance when he was 23. “I was a success with a big-time apartment and a big-time doorman. He came to see me and he said, 'You’re the big man, aren’t you? The big man.’
“Funny, isn’t it? That all that stuff would give someone the impression that you were important.” And with that, Tyson wanders back outside to his pigeons.
Mike is the real life Incredible Hulk. And like Bruce Banner says in The Avengers, his secret to controlling the Hulk is that he's "always angry". Meaning...he doesn't fight the anger, he controls it and knows where to aim it.
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