Mike Tyson To Enter The Ring Again.....Aged 54!

[crawdad]

Won't pay to see two old men Duke it out. I can go to the biker bar to see the same for free. And I was a sucker to pay for the privilege of seeing a deranged Tyson bite Holyfield's ear. Never again with Tyson. I guarantee you will not get your money's worth.

 

[troutface]

Old joke

Q: Why does Mike Tyson cry every time he has sex ?
A: Mace will do that to you.
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[anotherbob]

Wow I am not going to watch it. I can't help but think about what they're doing to their heads by letting them get punched professionally. And no I don't think people should not be allowed to fight professionally but I just can't get into it knowing what they're doing to themselves. And that's one of the big issues here is their age and how unprecedented the effects are. So in other words enjoy the willful and consensual mutual abuse.

 

[jguss]

If I wanted to see elder abuse I'd rewatch Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

And if I wanted to see an old guy who was still an awesome boxer I’d rewatch When We Were Kings.

 

[3rdguy]

12 ounce gloves...I can’t see it going long with Tyson in the video with the signed contract and he was smoking a joint.

 

[kola]

Second to Ali, I like Mike Tyson. even despite the ear tacos he made. That Evander steroid goon ( who looks like Steve Harvey) kept headbutting Mike - and the ref let it go. There's no other choice but to dish out the infamous ear-bite.

Go Mike !

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

My favourite fight of Mike's was when he destroyed Trevor Berbick in 2 rounds to become the youngest heavyweight champ. When Tyson finishes him off Berbick's legs are like a baby giraffe's, he's literally all over the place.
I'm guessing everyone has seen it but I've put a link below anyway.

I watch Mike's interview show he does on YouTube, Hotboxin' With Mike Tyson. He's had some great guests on there including Eminem, Sugar Ray Leonard and Tyson Fury. It's a really good watch and Mike comes across as really likeable.
I'll watch the highlights of his fight with Roy Jones on YouTube but honestly I wish he wasn't doing this. Better to remember him in his ferocious prime.

 

[jerseysam]

There are select boxers that can fight at some type of competitive level at a later age....these guys aren't those guys. It's supposed to be an exhibition style deal.....but man, someone with a care for RJJ should tell him to stop getting hit. He was perhaps the most phenomenally athletically gifted boxer I've ever seen....a HOF'r without ever having standard, fundamental boxing skills. But when the speed went, he's been a punching bag for a decade. Some brutal beatings in far flung corners of the world.

 

[georged]

Speaking of Evander H., can you imagine what you'd have to do to blow through 300 million dollars in a handful of years?

Seems to me that would take a fair amount of deliberate effort. 300 million has enormous inertia. Invested at one percent and simply left alone, nothing else, it would generate $8,200 a day, 365 days a year.

Allowing for inflation since the mid/late 90's, that would be about $10K/day.

Then to eliminate the capital??? The math is insane. Buy a new Bentley every hour? Burn bales of hundreds in your fireplace to impress your friends?

But yup, all gone. Poof.

Just damn...

 

[jerseysam]

Speaking of Evander H., can you imagine what you'd have to do to blow through 300 million dollars in a handful of years?

Seems to me that would take a fair amount of deliberate effort. 300 million has enormous inertia. Invested at one percent and simply left alone, nothing else, it would generate $8,200 a day, 365 days a year.

Allowing for inflation since the mid/late 90's, that would be about $10K/day.

Then to eliminate the capital??? The math is insane. Buy a new Bentley every hour? Burn bales of hundreds in your fireplace to impress your friends?

But yup, all gone. Poof.

Just damn...

I believe he bought some crazy $100MM+ mega-mansion and had a dozen kids by different women. Also didn't pay taxes and the IRS came for a chunk. I bet those were some fun years before the broke though!