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He’s served time in prison for ****. He’s declared bankruptcy despite earning over $300 million in purses. He’s had his mansions and belongings sold at auction. He’s won and lost the heavyweight championship of the world – once regarded as the greatest prize in all of sports. Now, Mike Tyson is appearing as the star attraction in a travelling road show called "Mike Tyson’s World Tour". Too bad there’s no such thing as carnival barkers anymore.
Despite his dislike for fighting in general, it’s the only real skill that Mike Tyson has ever had. He’s never had a "real" job. He’s never answered to a boss. He’s never had to submit a resume. He’s punched many people but he’s never punched a time clock. He sat around his Arizona home for a while trying to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life and then the idea for the tour presented itself.
They should call it the Mike Tyson charity tour.
He arrived in Ohio yesterday for the first leg of what he and his new associates hope will be a "world tour" consisting of four-round exhibition bouts that will be broadcast live on pay-per view. He’s softer and heavier now and he peers out from behind dark eyes blanketed with thick hoods of scar tissue. There’s no question that at age 40 we are witnessing a kinder, gentler Mike Tyson who was labeled the "baddest man on the planet" in the decade of the 80’s.
Tyson called it a career last June after being humiliated in successive bouts by Danny Williams and then Kevin McBride. After the McBride fight the world thought it had seen the last of Mike Tyson in trunks and gloves. But, the world should have known better. [details]
Despite his dislike for fighting in general, it’s the only real skill that Mike Tyson has ever had. He’s never had a "real" job. He’s never answered to a boss. He’s never had to submit a resume. He’s punched many people but he’s never punched a time clock. He sat around his Arizona home for a while trying to figure out what he was going to do with the rest of his life and then the idea for the tour presented itself.
They should call it the Mike Tyson charity tour.
He arrived in Ohio yesterday for the first leg of what he and his new associates hope will be a "world tour" consisting of four-round exhibition bouts that will be broadcast live on pay-per view. He’s softer and heavier now and he peers out from behind dark eyes blanketed with thick hoods of scar tissue. There’s no question that at age 40 we are witnessing a kinder, gentler Mike Tyson who was labeled the "baddest man on the planet" in the decade of the 80’s.
Tyson called it a career last June after being humiliated in successive bouts by Danny Williams and then Kevin McBride. After the McBride fight the world thought it had seen the last of Mike Tyson in trunks and gloves. But, the world should have known better. [details]
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