# Iron Mike - Shut the fuck up for your own good. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188 "2003-05-29T04:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/21 "2003-05-29T16:42:00Z")
daaaarrrrrryyyyllll tyyyyysssssoooonnn ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/22 "2003-05-29T16:45:31Z")
I’d taunt darrryl a hell of a lot sooner then I would Tyson. Especially if in earshot. ---
**Author:** ![macabresoul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e68b1a/32.png) [@macabresoul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/macabresoul)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/23 "2003-05-29T16:48:29Z")
_She put me in that state, where I don’t know_ Duude, totally… I feel you mike. An already convicted felon rapist asshole saying that he wants to do it again. Why isn’t this illegal in some way. This guy is next in line in the karmic universe to get hit by a stray bullet. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/24 "2003-05-29T16:58:34Z")
What a stark contrast to Larry Holmes. While building a bank in Easton, PA, I met the man, and he was something Mike Tyson will never be called: a gentleman. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/25 "2003-05-29T17:36:49Z")
No, no, no! We must give him every venue possible to make an even larger ASSHOLE of himself. Someday this might permit the entire boxing world to see what a thug they continue to promote. Tyson is a gigantic disgrace to his sport and needs to be banned for life. That this has not already happened is merely proof of how (as LBJ used to say) “money makes the mare go 'round.” Besides, he’s still in hot water with the IRS for trying to deduct Evander Holyfield’s ears as a business lunch. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/26 "2003-05-29T20:22:10Z")
Why is this man not in a padded cell drooling, I’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/27 "2003-05-29T20:27:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DKW \* > \*\*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? > \*\* Remember when he was considered fit material for children’s video games? ---
**Author:** ![ratty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ccd318/32.png) [@ratty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratty)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/28 "2003-05-29T20:39:06Z")
Mike Tyson is so obviously mentally ill. The only reason he’s not in an institution somewhere under heavy sedation is that he is still making money for someone. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/29 "2003-05-30T03:07:09Z")
_“She put me in that state, where I don’t know…”_ Well, lots of people get upset about having to be in Indiana, but this is a little extreme. Anyway, he’s provided someone out there with fine sig material with his latest tirade, which included this: “I’ve got some issues.” ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/30 "2003-05-30T03:27:17Z")
put [this](http://www.somethingawful.com/article.php?id=74-8) link in the other thread. Wanted to be balanced. Scroll down to the second from the bottom ---
**Author:** ![Boo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@Boo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/31 "2003-05-30T13:48:49Z")
well, at least he didn’t threaten to eat anyone’s kids this time. speaking of which, he did spit that ear lobe out, didn’t he? ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/32 "2003-05-30T17:44:42Z")
Holy crap, if this article in [\*The Contra Costa Times](http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/sports/5967129.htm)\* is accurate, then it seems that most papers have made an editorial decision which makes the man look marginally less evil. Behold, the expanded edition: > [@](#): > > “She puts me in that state where I don’t know … but now I really do want to rape her **and her (expletive) mama.**” ---
**Author:** ![bdgr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@bdgr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bdgr)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188/33 "2003-05-30T18:04:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ratty \* > \*\*Mike Tyson is so obviously mentally ill. The only reason he’s not in an institution somewhere under heavy sedation is that he is still making money for someone. \*\* You know, I wouldnt want to be the psych tech on that unit. I could see asking the charge nurse every morning "He has had his thorazine this morning right? Can we give some more just in case? Hey mike, have some more orange juice. I can imagine hearing a code being called to the unit, and rethinking my career choices. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iron-mike-shut-the-fuck-up-for-your-own-good/178188.md?page=1)