Mike said, "Don King helped me when I was in a bad situation and I felt indebted to him". Oh, you were, Mike. And one day you woke up with $100M missing. Glad you're doing well today.
Kevin Rooney interviews on Mike Tyson are interesting. He basically said Tyson didn't train hard, came into Douglas fight out of shape, not "sharp" or "cut up", and shouldn't have been allowed to even fight, but Don King and Aaron Snowell and Jay Bright wanted a pay day.
32:46 One of the realest non angry non biased statements made about Larry Merchant. I've often felt this way about him. Max Kellerman should have taken over for Merchant years ago but its all over now anyway with HBO refusing to cover boxing anymore.
Larry Merchant could be your harshest critic one minute and then your greatest advocate the next. One good performance and Merchant will celebrate you for it.
That’s what a real sports journalist is supposed to do. He gives less biased unrepentant view of what he saw that’s my favorite thing about Larry he has no allegiance.
Larry Merchant was a condescending, smug prick, particularly with a great Black fighters. I was glad when Bernard Hopkins told him off and Floyd cussed him out.
I find it amazing that Mikey tucks his chin as if he were shy and reluctant. But when you talk his language about reading fighters and different styles he changes his position. Interesting.
The reason rooney left rooney was ignorance and mike won't fess up to it to this day. Kevin and Steve weren't stealing from mike. All of Mike's money was accounted for. Don wad charging him for towel for the love of God.
Saying Bill Cayton was the enemy was a terrible, deplorable attitude to have. King really poisoned Tyson’s mind He was never the same fighter once Rooney was gone. Never. That’s a fact! If Tyson, at this stage, had proper control over his career & the decisions being made, he should have given an ultimatum to King: “Kevin Rooney comes back to train me or I’m fucking you off totally”. But it was King who was calling the shots, not Tyson.
Theres a book called taming the beast by tysons ex manager rory holloway i think you should read the book it is awesome in the book rory said tyson wanted rooney gone not don king rooney talked about robin and mike didnt like that so mike went up to rooney and said watch what your saying to the media about robin i know you dont like her but thats my wife kevin then kevin said fuck you mike ill say whatever i want to say mike left and then rooney filed the lawsuit for 49 million plus kevin had a huge gambling problem at the time so rory and everybody seen tyson slipping so they went to kevins house and asked him to drop the lawsuit and come back with mike and keep training him rooney looked at them and said i want 8 million or get the fuck out of my house i know king was bad but i think the book is true rory grew up with tyson and was there with him threw everything
@@luckmanali187 Yes. In Mike Tyson's autobiography "Undisputed Truth" he said how that baby mama tricked him, sued him, used him and eventually "stalked" him.
Weren't they usually on weeknights? I remember mostly going to my coworkers house after work for those big PPV bouts. He loved hosting them and we loved him for inviting us.
That was a carryover from the days when closed-circuit broadcasts in theaters and bars was the only way to watch a fight. PPV didn’t really exist at scale until Douglas-Holyfield in 1990. The reason they were on a weeknight before PPV was so that movie theaters didn’t have to give up a valuable screening room on a weekend, which are the biggest moviegoing nights. For example, for Leonard-Hearns 1 in 1981, theaters wouldn’t want to cancel a Saturday night’s showings of Raiders Of The Lost Arc. It took a few big PPVs before cable companies realized there was no reason to carry on this archaic custom.
@@djeanpierre For movie theaters, Monday night was preferred, as that is usually the slowest moviegoing night of the week. Tyson-Spinks and Hagler’s big fights with Hearns, Mugabi, and Leonard were all on Monday nights. For home pay per view, obviously Friday or Saturday night are better, but it took until Holyfield-Foreman in April 1991 for the promoters to realize that.
What proof is that exactly? Tyson fans always try and re write history. Holyfield was chasing the Tyson fight from ‘89 onwards. He just wanted the belts first so he chose Douglas after Douglas beat Tyson, which is understandable. His plan was to fight Tyson in ‘91 - he didn’t know Tyson was going to arrested for rape.
What proof? Holyfield was chasing Tyson from ‘89 onwards. He just chose to fight Douglas first after Douglas beat Tyson because he wanted the belts, which is understandable.
@@lucasm3879somewhat correct, the winner of the Tyson-Douglas fight was set to fight Holyfield. Tyson lost so Douglas first (and only) title defense was against Holyfield. Also in 91 Tyson ended up breaking his hand or some shid like that in training camp and the fight got postponed. This before the Desiree Washington shid
@@DMVBLACK Yeah the Tyson Holyfield fight was first scheduled for November ’91 (even though it would have happened in late ‘90 if Tyson beat Douglas). They did a press conference to announce the fight, when Tyson was wearing a straw hat for some reason, and you can see the posters for it, then Tyson got injured and arrested shortly after.
I didn't like Tyson nor Ruddock and I just watched the two fights for the very first time a couple of days ago, and Ruddock wasn't afraid of Tyson. He stumbled Tyson a couple of times. Not too many others did that.
That's the great Roy Firestone... And the athletes loved him, that's why he could say it as it relates to how they see the word. Also because both Tyson and King responded with iteration of the word to make their point.
No sir. All 3 sanctioning bodies standard rule was that the champ has one year to fight his mandatory. Because the WBC was in King's pocket in those days, they attempted to alter their rules, reducing the time to 120 days, after Holyfield bad already signed tonight Foreman. They threatened to strip Holyfield using the bogus one-time 120 day rule change, but in the 3nd they didn't, not only because it was BS, but they surely did t want to miss that sanctioning fee from the Holy-Foreman fight, as it was a huge money fight, and Holy signed tonight Tyson next, in November of the same year. But then Tyson withdrew at the last minute, claiming a rib injury. Then he went to jail. That move was a stroke of genius by Don King. I believe he realized that Holyfield was going to whoop Tyson, but if Tyson went to jail first, he'd come out as an even bigger attraction, with people convinced he's still unbeatable/invincible, and that he only lost to Douglas because he didn't train. King made probably 100M more than he would've had Holyfield ended Tyson in 1991.
Mike your unbeaten at this stage you lost your self discipline you lost a fight you lost your earlier credibility you should have retired after james struggled to beat you in the Japan slugfeast ...you never showed the same skill again
Mike said, "Don King helped me when I was in a bad situation and I felt indebted to him". Oh, you were, Mike. And one day you woke up with $100M missing. Glad you're doing well today.
Tyson is super intelligent and calm. People must have hated that.
What? 😂😂😂
Oh they did. They were as jealous of him as.... michael Jackson.
They do, you get better ratings when you flip out on live TV
@@Kurdyukov87pianistyou couldn’t understand even if you tried.
You can tell Mike's mind had been corrupted by don king. It's on full display 32:02
Kevin Rooney interviews on Mike Tyson are interesting. He basically said Tyson didn't train hard, came into Douglas fight out of shape, not "sharp" or "cut up", and shouldn't have been allowed to even fight, but Don King and Aaron Snowell and Jay Bright wanted a pay day.
32:46 One of the realest non angry non biased statements made about Larry Merchant. I've often felt this way about him. Max Kellerman should have taken over for Merchant years ago but its all over now anyway with HBO refusing to cover boxing anymore.
Larry Merchant could be your harshest critic one minute and then your greatest advocate the next. One good performance and Merchant will celebrate you for it.
That’s what a real sports journalist is supposed to do. He gives less biased unrepentant view of what he saw that’s my favorite thing about Larry he has no allegiance.
Larry Merchant was a condescending, smug prick, particularly with a great Black fighters. I was glad when Bernard Hopkins told him off and Floyd cussed him out.
@@djeanpierrethe victim mentality here we go
I find it amazing that Mikey tucks his chin as if he were shy and reluctant. But when you talk his language about reading fighters and different styles he changes his position. Interesting.
Crazy how duped Mike was into thinking Cayton and Rooney were the enemy.
When Don King crosses over to the other side, he’s going to convince the devil to paint the walls white, get AC and make everyone where wings.
That was Don King and Robin Givens doing
The reason rooney left rooney was ignorance and mike won't fess up to it to this day. Kevin and Steve weren't stealing from mike. All of Mike's money was accounted for. Don wad charging him for towel for the love of God.
Saying Bill Cayton was the enemy was a terrible, deplorable attitude to have. King really poisoned Tyson’s mind
He was never the same fighter once Rooney was gone. Never. That’s a fact! If Tyson, at this stage, had proper control over his career & the decisions being made, he should have given an ultimatum to King: “Kevin Rooney comes back to train me or I’m fucking you off totally”. But it was King who was calling the shots, not Tyson.
Theres a book called taming the beast by tysons ex manager rory holloway i think you should read the book it is awesome in the book rory said tyson wanted rooney gone not don king rooney talked about robin and mike didnt like that so mike went up to rooney and said watch what your saying to the media about robin i know you dont like her but thats my wife kevin then kevin said fuck you mike ill say whatever i want to say mike left and then rooney filed the lawsuit for 49 million plus kevin had a huge gambling problem at the time so rory and everybody seen tyson slipping so they went to kevins house and asked him to drop the lawsuit and come back with mike and keep training him rooney looked at them and said i want 8 million or get the fuck out of my house i know king was bad but i think the book is true rory grew up with tyson and was there with him threw everything
Facts.
Poor Mike , he did so many dumb thinks back then .
How do you guys no better than him and its his own experiences
Mike brake down him self as a person and as e boxer cause shit man don king help to him to do this vey good !!!
Interviewer: Mike, how do you spell Elephant?
Mike: E- L - E - P - H - A - N - T .... eloquent....
Arsenio out here looking like str'ange from boomerang😩🤣
Arsenio Hall lookin' pretty geometric . His head looks like an upside down triangle and his suit looks like an isosceles triangle. . Lol wtf
looooooooooooooooool! I've long thought I was the only one who noticed
Lol that's a great assessment 😂
Bonecrusher held on to Tyson. Ruddock stopped Bonecrusher, but was beaten up by Tyson. Sit down you talking too much.
Whom are you talking to ?
@@theinformationbomber7102Yo mama
At 8:30 mike was talking about his son and naming him damato after cus but mike found out 2 months later the baby wasnt his threw a paternety test lol
No way seroiusly
@@luckmanali187 Yes. In Mike Tyson's autobiography "Undisputed Truth" he said how that baby mama tricked him, sued him, used him and eventually "stalked" him.
@@CliffPierson777 stalked him lol
Monday March 18, 1991 !! Why was the PPV on a Monday!!??
Weren't they usually on weeknights?
I remember mostly going to my coworkers house after work for those big PPV bouts.
He loved hosting them and we loved him for inviting us.
That was a carryover from the days when closed-circuit broadcasts in theaters and bars was the only way to watch a fight. PPV didn’t really exist at scale until Douglas-Holyfield in 1990.
The reason they were on a weeknight before PPV was so that movie theaters didn’t have to give up a valuable screening room on a weekend, which are the biggest moviegoing nights. For example, for Leonard-Hearns 1 in 1981, theaters wouldn’t want to cancel a Saturday night’s showings of Raiders Of The Lost Arc.
It took a few big PPVs before cable companies realized there was no reason to carry on this archaic custom.
@@billdouglas8701 damn, I've been watching boxing almost 40 years and didn't know that. I remember that Tyson-Spinks was on a weeknight too.
@@djeanpierre For movie theaters, Monday night was preferred, as that is usually the slowest moviegoing night of the week. Tyson-Spinks and Hagler’s big fights with Hearns, Mugabi, and Leonard were all on Monday nights.
For home pay per view, obviously Friday or Saturday night are better, but it took until Holyfield-Foreman in April 1991 for the promoters to realize that.
His "you know what I mean" thst he says comes straight from Don King. He's imitating don king.
It’s interesting how the host tried to make Tyson understand that he made a mistake by getting rid of his entire old team to go with Don King.
Of course *Lennox Lewis* destroyed Razor Ruddock in their match with a KO.
🥊Cus wanted him to be independent ,I'm sure that meant staying away from the wrong people trying to use you....that stuck out!
29:00 30:03
Proof Holyfield ducked a young Mike Tyson, to fight an old man. Smh.
What proof is that exactly? Tyson fans always try and re write history. Holyfield was chasing the Tyson fight from ‘89 onwards. He just wanted the belts first so he chose Douglas after Douglas beat Tyson, which is understandable.
His plan was to fight Tyson in ‘91 - he didn’t know Tyson was going to arrested for rape.
What proof? Holyfield was chasing Tyson from ‘89 onwards. He just chose to fight Douglas first after Douglas beat Tyson because he wanted the belts, which is understandable.
@@lucasm3879somewhat correct, the winner of the Tyson-Douglas fight was set to fight Holyfield. Tyson lost so Douglas first (and only) title defense was against Holyfield. Also in 91 Tyson ended up breaking his hand or some shid like that in training camp and the fight got postponed. This before the Desiree Washington shid
@@DMVBLACK
Yeah the Tyson Holyfield fight was first scheduled for November ’91 (even though it would have happened in late ‘90 if Tyson beat Douglas).
They did a press conference to announce the fight, when Tyson was wearing a straw hat for some reason, and you can see the posters for it, then Tyson got injured and arrested shortly after.
14:34 i honestly belive mike at this stage would have easily beaten anybody
Agreed
Except that he'd already lost to an obscure underdog
@@jimnewcombe7584 he'd actually knocked douglas out but the ref gave douglas a long count
No. Douglas watched the count on the ref to time his rise with that.
@@mallafets he got a 13 second count it's that simple
Lmao Tyson really dissed and called it that Arsenio would be cancelled. He was really not funny and Tyson knew it
Gah, I wish Mike Tyson would've never fired Kevin Rooney and Bill Cayton. The prior death of Jim Jacobs really was the start of the fall.
Double denim and white sneakers, Mike.
Prime Mike here. What destroyed him was prison.
25:58 I slipped
18:40... That is not Brownville Brookyn. I see a Palm tree
Bernstein with the racoon eyes jesus christ what was he on
Up close interviewer seems really mean person to me.
Razor was afraid to iron mike
I didn't like Tyson nor Ruddock and I just watched the two fights for the very first time a couple of days ago, and Ruddock wasn't afraid of Tyson.
He stumbled Tyson a couple of times. Not too many others did that.
Ruddock could punch like a sledgehammer.
0:33:58 the white interviewer drops the hard N word multiple times 🤦🏾♂️
I though i was the only one seeing it
Wasn't a big deal back then.
That's the great Roy Firestone...
And the athletes loved him, that's why he could say it as it relates to how they see the word. Also because both Tyson and King responded with iteration of the word to make their point.
Wait, so Holyfield didn't fight his mandatory? (Tyson)
No sir. All 3 sanctioning bodies standard rule was that the champ has one year to fight his mandatory. Because the WBC was in King's pocket in those days, they attempted to alter their rules, reducing the time to 120 days, after Holyfield bad already signed tonight Foreman. They threatened to strip Holyfield using the bogus one-time 120 day rule change, but in the 3nd they didn't, not only because it was BS, but they surely did t want to miss that sanctioning fee from the Holy-Foreman fight, as it was a huge money fight, and Holy signed tonight Tyson next, in November of the same year. But then Tyson withdrew at the last minute, claiming a rib injury. Then he went to jail. That move was a stroke of genius by Don King. I believe he realized that Holyfield was going to whoop Tyson, but if Tyson went to jail first, he'd come out as an even bigger attraction, with people convinced he's still unbeatable/invincible, and that he only lost to Douglas because he didn't train. King made probably 100M more than he would've had Holyfield ended Tyson in 1991.
@joeblough261 I think Tyson woulda beat him back then
@@joeblough261nah tyson should of been the mandatory defence tyson demanded the winner of Douglas vs holyfield
@@MaddSteppa
Yeah then he got arrested and sent to prison instead.
Tyson v Holyfield was announced for November’91.
@@joeblough261
Maybe. Holyfield would have whooped Tyson in late ‘91 or ‘92 if Tyson didn’t get arrested.
12:40, Tyson says "retarded", no one steps up to correct him 35 years and counting...
What
It was a different time. When I was in middle I use to say “retarded” all the time. Hell, I still say it.
Lol
Mike your unbeaten at this stage you lost your self discipline you lost a fight you lost your earlier credibility you should have retired after james struggled to beat you in the Japan slugfeast ...you never showed the same skill again
Proof that Holyfield avoided Tyson