Mike Tyson part 1
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
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I met him in at LAX, waiting for a cab just like me. What surprised me was how down to earth he was. We lined up fists and took pictures like at the pre-fight weigh ins. What a great guy! His fist was the size of a brick!
Mikes boxing skills obviously attracted me towards him, but his gentle and generous side, a side that many people don't seem to realize he possesses, also won me over. Mike seems like a very caring person, who's emotions often get the best of him.
Man I could listen to this guy talk for hours. I love his interviews!
greatest ever to ever fight..20 yr old world champ that will never happen again.....never and i said never
"when you have something at home to go home to a nice soft bed, abeutiful wife or girlfriend a nice car or abunch of beautiful pigeons that you love or whatever"
That was very touching. Mike actually does have pet pigeons.
THis interview actually makes mike sound sensible.
...I opted to call myself DTysonator as a last option, feeling that no one would have such a username.
Mike is definitely one of my biggest inspirations, as he made me believe in myself more than I ever used to, by proving that with determination anything is possible.
This and other vids totaly changes peoples perspective on Mike!
Mike trully is the greatest (and the badest :D) !
There was a time when Mike would let his fists do the talking for him. Whenever he did otherwise it was obvious that he was no longer the same fighter who could strike fear in his opponents with his boxing skills alone. The skilled Mike Tyson never had to resort to intimidation tactics during press conferences either, like he most notably did with Lennox Lewis.
mikes had the ultimate life!!
Damn... This makes it office Mike Tyson is awesome... dude is sounding on it right here... smart, sensible, cool as fuck...
i agree. great interview too, thanks for uploading this Maxboxingvidea
It's funny how people view Mike as being this great intimidator throughout his career and comparing him to Sonny Liston. The only time that I truly saw him trying to act tougher than he was or to intimidate his opponents, was once he back from prison. Deep down he probably knew that he wasn't the same fighter anymore and felt that through the use of intimidation, he would appear to be more threatening than he actually was...
I want the old Mike back!
I read in Jose Torres' Tyson biography, entitled "Fire and Fear", that Mike even told Kevin Rooney to fuck off when Kevin was asking him to train in a certain way. The stories in the book were later said to be fictional by Mike himself though, so who knows if any of this actually happened.
I can't get over how articulate he is for a fighter. He could have been anything had he had the opportunities. He's extremely smart and incisive about his world. I wish more people would see this side of him. I really wish him well.
Part 1
It is amazing that to this day Mike cannot bring himself to tell the truth. He said that being a champ at 20 was too much pressure for him and that's why he ended where he is today. An outright lie by Mike. After winning the title Mike was the happiest guy in the world. Living the life of "Riley." No problems. Commercials on TV. Spokesperson for the NYC Police Department, FBI, DEA.
lol yeah I tend to get carried away sometimes, deaddog, sorry about that! I'm a huge fan of Mike's as you can probably tell and have read some biographical books about him and watched the majority of his fights, so I do know a lot about him, but unfortunately have never met him before. Maybe some day I will.
I'd like to be involved in either writing or commentating about boxing and sports in general and making a living this way.
Mike obviously liked what he was hearing from Don King and probably thought that by getting rid of the entire team that gave him all of the essential tools that he required to remain successful, he would become independent and boy did he ever! Perhaps Mike no longer cared about his boxing career, as to make such a questionable move from a boxing standpoint.
Mike hints at his displeasure of taking orders from others towards the end of first part of the interview posted by Maxboxingvideo. "A bunch of beautiful pigeons that you love" gave it away, only a cool guy like Mike would say something like that haha.
I'm not sure whether Mike always had a foul mood in the gym, but the distractions in his mind likely made things worse for everyone.
5:50 jeff fenech!
when was this video recorded???
The gorilla´s on Zoloft...but I can see there´s been a road travelled for Mike. Good for you Mike!!!!
I guess his old friend/trainer Jay Bright was there @ 3:43
Is that Dana White asking the questions ? Sounds like him .
By the way, did Mike ever forgive you guys for having left you out in the cold? Hopefully he did and realized that you truly cared about him. I also care about Mike as a human being, despite what my screename may seem to suggest. I usually go by the screenname of Daniel T, but that name was taken and since I am a big fan of Mike's and his 1987 Nintendo game is my all-time favorite video game and I managed to whip his CPU counterpart in the first round...
ROFL USE YOU OWNED HIM AHAHHA
it's great to see tyson so lucid and so pragmatic. this video is the perfect antidote to the image of mike tyson the monster as has so often been delivered by the media.
I love mike!!!! He's very misunderstood
I definitely agree with you, Steve, about the negative influence that Robin Givens likely had in Tyson's life. She was a huge distraction from what I have read. Mike went absolutely crazy over this woman and would do anything for her, listening to her like a loved crazed puppy. Mike probably wanted to be with her rather than prepare for his next fight or watch footage of his opponent.
I don't believe that Tyson was lying about the pressure that he felt building up inside of himself, he just did a good job at keeping it in check for many years. Don King likely did play on Mike's desires of wanting more freedom to be able to do the things that he truly enjoyed doing, instead of having to train hard for a fight. But at the end of the day Mike probably wanted more freedom, if he didn't, he would not have allowed Don King to sweet talk him.
He likely wanted to be just like other people his age and go out to parties or clubs, play around, talk about or engage in pleasurable experiences (especially fornicating with women), basically things that involved little pressure if any at all, rather than having to bust his chops in the gym and make the right weight at the weigh-in or worry about the quality of a particular performance (he didn't seem at all pleased with his win over Tony "TNT" Tucker for example).
...and in the aforementioned interview Mike explains how the general public has no idea how depressing the life of a young boxer can be, even going so far as saying that people wouldn't want to be in his shoes, as they would probably want to cry. Now, does that truly sound like a happy individual?
Mike always seemed to love to unleash his anger inside the ring, but despised training and the sacrifices that came along with maintaining his superior form.
Mike shoved a camera man on his way to the ring for that fight, just to make himself appear to be more of a bad ass fighter, possibly suggesting that he was either intimidated himself and felt as though he had to look tougher in order to scare Evander, or was simply in a bad mood, my pick would be the former.
it sux that people still think he's this murderous psycho freak. he's alot calmer and cooler than he used to be. He just makes stupid choices these days, like the whole coke/DUI episode.
Well, although Mike is caring, I should have wrote that he is a very sensitive person, who often allows his emotions to get the better of him.
Part 3
Mike was fine. Until Robin Givens and Don King. The interesting thing is that to this day Mike is still embarrassed to say that he was destroyed by Don. Don knew Mike could never bring himself to tell the truth. Don knew that a guy like Mike, a kid from the street, would rather lie about their history ( by saying he was too young to fight for the title ) than say he was conned by King. Now that's a great con job.
Steve Lott
Part 2
Sensational victories over Smith, Thomas, Tucker, Biggs, Holmes, Tubbs, and Spinks. For two years Mike was a happy superstar - and conquered all the pressure. The world's most popular athlete. And he was successful through this entire period - with no Cus. Because Mike knew that Jim and Loraine Jacobs. Bill and Doris Cayton, Kevin Rooney, Jose Torres and others loved him and were there for him.
Mike Tyson continues to be one of the most interesting public figures in the history of sport, and entertainment, and even popular culture. Enigmatic, unpredictable, yet wise, lucid, and pleasantly sensible at times. I'll always be a fan.
I agree with improvmaniac, its just the world he was brought into created him as a fighter and with natural strength he gained skill
HAhahahahahahn NOW I KNOW WHY HE SAYS BEAUTIFUL PIGEONS....LOL
wow, is he on prozzak or something...he is a different person
Tyson's the shit!! much respect.
I mean Mike did say that he was going to retire after he destroyed Spinks and so maybe he had already accomplished everything that he had set out to do and had nothing more to prove and just wanted to live out the glamorous life and catch up on lost times. In doing so however, he lost everything that made him so great as a fighter and although he seemed like he was having a ball, he was ironically setting himself up for an eventual heartbreak in every sense of the word.
BIGFIGHTS, if you are in the fact the same Steve Lott who was previously one of Mike Tyson's personal assistants, during his greatest days as a boxer, you most likely have a greater perspective as to what exactly happened to Mike when Don King and company came marshing along, since you did live with Tyson for a certain amount of time. However, I recall an interview of Mike conducted by HBO prior to his 1986 bout with Mitch "Blood" Green, long before Don King took him away...
Cool interview, Maxboxingvideo! I never knew that Mike was interested in the career of David Tua and liked him as a person as well as a fighter. It would have been great had they met in the ring, since their styles were similar. Oh well, the clash of the devastating knockout kings never happened for whatever reason and the heavyweight division suffered yet another blow because of it.
For example, Mike went out of character and followed Peter McNeeley's eyes like some kind of ticking time bomb, while the referee was giving them instructions. Ironically McNeeley knew that it was all an act and actually smiled back. Another example would be during his ring entrance for his first bout with Evander Holyfield...
mike is so intelligent.
BEST OF ALL TIME
his a sick man, people just didnt know him, he always was clever like this, and sensible
I pray that he will have happiness and peace in his life now. It always seems to those who don't look closely enough that Tyson was nasty but he was always real. He's done some things that he will probably regret but he speaks from his heart, he also did a lot of stuff for charity. He deserves some peace and happiness.