Tyson, Lewis and all that

FWIW, when I was a wee one, I followed boxing regularly enough, but somewhere around 1983, 84, I stopped actively caring. I know the names but haven't watched an actual match in years.

they gotta compete with the WWF these days...they should make it a triple threat match.

Mike Tyson was BRILLIANT in Black and White, or whatever that Brooke Shields movie was called.

The heavyweights are a complete joke. What semi-gifted athlete who's 230 pounds is gonna choose boxing over linebacking or 1st base? Half of the "up and coming" heavyweights of the past few years seemed to have started pro boxing at age 30 after serving time, and the other half are european and suck.

this is gorgeous - um, they may not fight because they already fought at an occasion that we ddidn't ahve ppl paying millions of dollars for...

mind you, the thrill i got from watching 4 dickheads in a fist fight on a main road was enough to justify the joy in watching boxing.

Tyson = vampire

Tyson=Pac-man : chomp chomp wacca wacca.

Roy Jones Jr. was once asked why he didn't bulk up just a couple of pounds so that he could be considered a heavyweight, in order to show the world that he was better than Mike Tyson. "Hell no!" he said. "I'd be afraid he'd want to put barbecue sauce on my kids!"

Mike Tyson didn't start the fight. He acted off-script and crazy, but he didn't start it.

a) staredown poses held for a brief moment, where the two boxers are supposed to stand far apart under dramatic spotlights, hold their fists up, and glower menacingly at each other, "as if" they're about to fight.
b) Iron Mike, who has a notorious problem distinguishing reality from the crazy shit in his head, immediately strides off his little platform and over to Lewis, glowering, fists down, but definitely "as if" he's about to fight. He's got a flair for the dramatic, right or wrong (usually wrong). Everyone knows this. Apparently not Lewis's bodyguard who, understandably concerned for the situation, makes
c)the unfortunate mistake of PUSHING Tyson back - lightly, it must be said, but pushing his chest nonetheless. This is the first hostile contact between anyone so far.
d) Tyson immediately throws a punch at the bodyguard which misses by a mile and while his BACK is TURNED,
e) Lewis goes into classic pose and pops Tyson on the head from behind.
f) All scuffle. Tyson is reported to bite Lewis on the leg, but no evidence is ever offered.

It's too bad that the same reporters who expected to cover this cheesy, over-choreographed exaggeration of a hostile staredown between these two men became the voices of outrage and propriety once the hostility became real.