I watched the fight and Tyson got his ass kicked in a big way. This makes me very happy. After the second round or so Tyson was hiding and was overmatched by Lennox.
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The only good news is that Mike Tyson is now utterly unmarketable… as a BOXER, anyway.
It’s about time, too. I mean, when’s the last time Tyson beat a respected fighter, anyway?
That said, I suspect a pay-per-view match between Tyson and, I dunno… Butterbean (!) would STILL get far more viewers than a match between Lennox Lewis and anybody else. That’s because there are still Jerry Springer-ish fans who’d pay to see him do ANYTHING, just on the off chance he might freak out and do something nutty.
But nobody will EVER take him seriously as a fighter again. He’s now the joke he should have been all along. And it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
I think I would pay to see that.
You notice that Mike really seemed, throughout, to be positioning himself, not so much for the fight tonight, but for a future match?
That’s all he spoke about afterwards, he kept asking for a rematch (and quite politely, too.)
It was so odd, watching MT from the very outset, how calm he was. I kept waiting, hoping for a burst, for the old, agressive and angry, the dangerous, Iron Mike to show up. He never did, save for a few seconds at the beginning of each round.
But can he still beat Soda Popinski or King Hippo?
Nope. I just gotta press “Start” and he’s going down.
That was an outright beating, Mike Tyson is officially a joke. If I were him i’d hang up the gloves take a stab at show biz. He’d fit in real well with the case of Oz, and he’d be a shoe in for a lead opposite the Rock in Scorpian King II.
This is one of those very, very, very rare times when it’s actually nice to be English and interested in sport.
England 1, Argentina 0.
Lewis undisputed heavweight champion of the world, winner by a KO, Tyson hoovering the canvas with his forehead and whimpering for a re-match.
Please excuse us if we party on this fuel for a while. It doesn’t happen very often. It will all be over by June 24 anyway, when the Wimbledon Championship starts: always an exercise in ritual humiliation for the home participants.
Maybe if ESPN had some programming savvy, they’d rip off “The Osbournes” and do the same thing with “Tyson.”
I really enjoyed this exchange (a bit off thanks to my fuzzy memory) from the post-fight interview.
Mike: I think I could beat him in a rematch.
Interviewer: (disdainfully) What gives you any indication that is in any way possible?
Does Lennox Lewis still have both ears intact?
His ears are fine. His hands, however, may need some work as Tyson did attack them quite viciously with his face…
I think they gave Tyson some ritalin right before the fight, which explains why we didn’t see the Iron Mike, hehe.
Originally posted by Astorian
Awwww…now I bet Don King will be down to his last million…can he still afford toilet brushes and Elmer’s Glue to style his hair?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! 
No matter if Tyson wins a fight or not, he and Don King make MILLIONS of dollars each time.
Actually, Don King and Mike Tyson split seveal years ago. Tyson sued King a while back asserting that he had stolen millions from him, though I’m not sure about the current status of that. Apparently they despise each other…
During his brief stint as heavyweight champion, Hasim Rahman signed with King in what was widely regarded as a Bad Move. King made it clear that so long as he had control over Rahman, Tyson would never get a shot at his champion unless he dropped his lawsuit. For his part, Tyson said he’d never agree to a fight in which King was involved anyway, so there you go…
(Wow, I feel so…so…rugged talking sports…think I’ll go out back and build me a brick BBQ…)
Am I the only one who caught the sound byte of Tyson claiming that there’s nothing to do now but just “fade out into bolivian”?
I enjoyed his wimpering. Sounded like a little boy. “Mr Lewis if I suck you off can we have a rematch?”
The bit where Mike reached up and tenderly wiped some sweat (or blood) from Lennox’s cheek was…well, kind of touching in a deeply creepy way. To his credit, the fact that Lennox didn’t so much as flinch when Mike Tyson put his finger within an inch of his EYE says a lot about how the dynamic between these two has changed. A good ass-whuppin’ will do that…
Thanks, thats the funniest thing I’ve read today.