:rolleyes:
What a fucking idiot. That moron can’t open his mouth without sounding like a total shithead. What’s he got, like 10 live brain cells now?
You using the demical or binary system?
Holy shit! Iron Mike is the grapis…Oh, never mind. That one’s been done to death.
Okay…as I remember, it went like this:
Remember when Mike Tyson was “Kid Dynamite”, the ferocious phenom posed to become a boxing megastar?
Remember when he shot straight to the top and gained such an enormous presence, he practically became boxing?
Remember the way he utterly terrified his challengers before they even entered the ring, and he’d destroy them with such astonishing ease that nearly everyone considered him invincible?
Remember his stubborn warrior pride refusing to let him quit after the aura of invincibility was shattered by Buster Douglas, and actually mounting a respectable second title run?
Remember when he could still beat second-tier challengers despite the time he lost in prison?
Remember when he only lost because he went nuts and bit the other guy’s damn ear off?
Remember when he lost cleanly, but at least it wasn’t a knockout?
Remember when got knocked out, but at least he got the fight in the first place?
To that, I must now add:
Remember a time when you actually looked forward to seeing Mike Tyson in action, not constantly praying that he’d just take his damn money and disappear?
I can think of no other athlete in history who’s fallen as far and hard as he has. It’s almost unbelievable.
I’m sure those little nitpicking technicalities can be frustrating to an athlete.
“Apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”
Granted, Mike Tyson is like a turd in a punchbowl at a church social.
Still, I wouldn’t give him the first to worst award just yet. There are some other contenders.
Daryl Strawberry, perhaps?
Oh, I don’t know-
Did Strawberry actually say he not only wants to rape his ex-wife, he wants to rape his ex-wife’s mother?
Or go out of control and tell a reporter “I’ll fuck you till you love me?”
c’mon, this guy’s the worst by a long shot.
Now entering the ring… from parts unknown, brain stem missing… Iron Mike Tyson!
And his opponent… being led to the ring by his manager, Bubbles the Chimp, and his valet, Emmanuel Lewis… from NeverLand, weighing a buck-eighty, wearing the all-white trunks… Michael Jackson!
Let’s get it on!
Please tell me that his latest moronic statement violates the parole or probation he’s on!
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You definitely have a point there. The degree of badness of Messr. Tyson is far beyond anything the Straw has been reported to have done. I was thinking more in the context of waste of athletic talent. I question whether Tyson (or any boxer, for that matter, but that’s a subject for another debate) ever had the level of talent that Strawberry had. Clearly, they both have reached the same level of athletic uselessness at this point in time, so I would suggest that Strawberry, IMO having had more talent to waste, has fallen farther than Tyson in that context. But in the sense of being a waste of skin and various-colored corpuscles, “Iron Mike” is the clear victor.
To me, that’s almost a threat to the “victim’s” safety.
How “primitive”!:dubious: He’s angry, so now he must “conquer” and force his will on her? Degrade her, show her that he’s “tougher” than her? Prove that he’s right, and she’s wrong by a violent forcing of sex? WTF good would it do, to rape her now, or then? Why would it be “even” or “all better” if he had actually forced his will on her, if his claims of innocence are true? (I think he was justice was served when he was convicted and sentenced.) How would this change anything except to give him a violent mental “trophy” to keep, and nurse?
He’s a sick, sick man, with huge self discipline/anger manaegement problems and he should not be out in society. His own words just proved it. He wants to violently subjegate someone because of the past? He can’t learn to deal with his anger and resentment, and make the best life he possibly can? His focus instead turns to revenge, and a circle of hatred? shiver
Call me cynical.
Tyson only says these things when he needs to boost his Q-Rating and position himself for another fight.
Is he that desperate to stir up controversy in the hope that someone will pay to see him fight again? Or is Tyson just being the Mike that we all know and hope is properly sedated?
Either way he’s a sick fuck.
One various occasions, he has said:
"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. "
and
"My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.
– (on Fighting Lennox Lewis, 2002) "
At interviews before the fight with Etienne:
“I brought my son along today because he wants to be a fighter. I thought I would get him accustomed to everything.”
and at an interview before the Lewis fight:
“If I take this camera & put it in your face for 20 years, I don’t know what you might be. You might be a homosexual if I put that camera on you since you were 13 years old. I’ve been on that camera since I was 13 years old.”
and
“I wish he [Lewis] was dead … I wish I could kill him now.”
and
“I want your heart,” Tyson said of Lennox Lewis in one of the all-time great boxing quotes. “I want to eat your children.” Last month Tyson added “If Lewis tries to intimidate me again I will put a bullet in his skull.”
To reporters before the Lewis fight:
“I wish that you guys had children so I could kick them in the (expletive) head or stomp on their testicles so you could feel my pain because that’s the pain I have waking up every day.”
and
“I normally don’t do interviews with women unless I fornicate with them. So you shouldn’t talk anymore … Unless you want to, you know.”
He’s certifiable. It’s only a matter of time before he pulls another violent criminal act. If he were a pit bull, he’d have been put down long ago. What a shame.
Oh please. The man is totally incapable of opening his mouth without revealing the depth of his stupidity.
But you’re talking and thinking about him right now, aren’t you?
Who?
That sounds kinda strange.
[minor, but related hijack]
I actually saw Mike Tyson and Don King in person once, at the prison where Mike served his time in Indiana. (That used to be part of my fun job with the Feds: business trips to various Midwestern state and Federal prisons, to interpret in deportation proceedings.) As the judge and I were signing in at the front gate in the morning, I looked behind toward the pay phone in the lobby and saw an older African-American guy with really goofy hair. Distinctively goofy, sticking-straight-up hair. In my caffeine-deprived fog, I though to myself, “Gee, that guy sure looks like Don King!” And then I realized: “That guy is Don King!” He had come to visit Mike and offer his peerless counsel, no doubt.
Later that day, there was a hearing for which my presence was not required, so I sat out in the hallway bullshitting with the guards. They certainly had some opinions about Mike’s comportment as an inmate. It seems he could have been paroled long before, but he steadfastly refused to admit any degree of responsibility for what he had done, so the parole board kept refusing to release him.
That, and he had taken, and flunked, the GED exam not long before. His reaction on learning the exam results? Not “oh well, I’ll study harder next time,” but “Those bastards! They’re just out to get me! They probably gave me a different test than they gave everyone else!”
The hearing room was just across the hallway from the visiting room, so I got to watch Mike and Don engrossed in conversation by the vending machines.
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