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Entries tagged with "Mike+Tyson":

• Live From Henderson, Nevada – April 24th, 2011

  
  
  

• What Do Women Know? – May 1st, 2011

  "Boxing is for men, and is about men, and is men. A celebration of the lost art of masculinity all the more trenchant for being lost..."
  
  

• Don’t Cry for Me Argentina – May 17th, 2011

  
  
  

• B-Hop: The Defiant One – May 21st, 2011

  Bernard Hopkins remains intriguing because he is, in equal parts, a refreshing and wearing figure...
  
  

• Tyson/Stallone Do Canastota – May 26th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mike Tyson's Hangover Blues – May 28th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mike Tyson Is New York – June 12th, 2011

  
  
  

• Greatest KOs in Boxing History – June 18th, 2011

  Everone loves a knockout. And what's not to love? When one man's fists connect with another man's head and he goes crashing to the canvas, everyone's pulse races a little faster. The knockout can not only change the direction of a fight. It can change the direction of a career, the direction of a life...
  
  

• Gender Gap: Payday and Airwaves – June 21st, 2011

  
  
  

• Tyson Drama Series for HBO – June 22nd, 2011

  
  
  

• Bronson, Haye, and Tyson Fury – June 23rd, 2011

  We shall see if Haye is a little big man. Does he have The Great Spirit? Will he attack or slowly be worn down?
  
  

• The Long Weekend – June 30th, 2011

  The reason I have the boxing bug this weekend is that I think we are finally going to get some heavyweight fireworks…
  
  

• Tyson/Lewis Pick Klitschko – July 1st, 2011

  
  
  

• Never Spectacular: Klitschko Wins Again – July 2nd, 2011

  Wladimir Klitschko doesn’t show the desire to take a chance in the name of glory. He doesn’t show the passion to be anything more than very good…
  
  

• The Stallone Act – July 6th, 2011

  There was no Chuck Zitoesque middleman doing the "hand me the boxing glove, I give it to MISTER Stallone, I hand it back" routine…
  
  

• Greatest Moments in the Ring – July 7th, 2011

  
  
  

• Local Fighters, Local Fights – July 16th, 2011

  Tonight was a throwback—two hard-nosed fighters fighting each other, struggling the way contenders need to struggle...
  
  

• Ten-Count for Butch Lewis – July 23rd, 2011

  
  
  

• Khan Turns New Judah Old – July 23rd, 2011

  Judah’s actions explain Judah. He hypes himself up. He talks a great game. But against elite opposition, he falls short every time...
  
  

• The Name Game – July 25th, 2011

  
  
  

• 10 Greatest Upsets in Heavyweight History – April 10th, 2012

  There's nothing like an upset to make one believe. All the questionable decisions that cast doubt on the sport are rendered meaningless when an upset occurs. And when the upset is during a contest between world-class heavyweights, the satisfaction is that much greater. This sampling covers some of the greatest upsets among heavyweights in history and includes Foreman-Frazier, Norton-Ali, Rahman-Lewis, Ali-Foreman, Louis-Schmeling, Clay-Liston, Braddock-Baer, and Tyson-Douglas...
  
  

• Mike Tyson Looks Back – August 4th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mike Tyson on Past Heavyweight Champs – August 6th, 2011

  Before he was the youngest man in history to be crowned heavyweight champion at age 20 in 1986, Mike Tyson had learned all there was to learn about heavyweight history. Part of his Catskill education took place in the ring, and part of it took place outside the ring, in front of a portable movie screen watching old fights. Cus D'Amato wanted Tyson to know about the great champions of the past--to give his young charge context, to give the teenaged Tyson a reason to believe he could become one of them...
  
  

• The New Normal in the Heavyweight Division – August 16th, 2011

  In short (no pun intended), Mike Tyson’s glory days ended in 1996 and I doubt we will ever see another 5’10” heavyweight champion…
  
  

• Happy Birthday Don King – August 20th, 2011

  “Haye had the charisma and style to revive heavyweight boxing, but he became one of many fighters I’ve known who were afraid to hit the white man...”
  
  

• Povetkin-Chagaev vs. Holyfield? – August 26th, 2011

  Holyfield believes that god is in his corner, whispering in his ear, telling his to keep his hands up and chin down, advising him to keep barreling forward…
  
  

• "Don King Unauthorized" Documentary – August 30th, 2011

  Don King is a national institution. A self-described "black Horagio Alger," his rags-to-riches, Cinderella story is the American Dream come to life. But if we pull back the curtain and look beyond the wild hair, smiling countenance, bespoke jean jackets, and flutterng flags, a darker picture emerges, a picture of a man for whom winning isn't the most important thing, it's the only thing...
  
  

• Mayweather-Ortiz: UNSTABLE – September 13th, 2011

  When is the right time to stray from tangibles and take a shot on intangibles? Mayweather is unstable; unpredictable…
  
  

• The Enigma of Floyd Mayweather – September 14th, 2011

  “And Mayweather is beginning to operate like a surgeon," said Jim Lampley. "Fighting Floyd Mayweather is a dose of cold reality..."
  
  

• Postscript to a Bad Night in Vegas – September 20th, 2011

  Come with me as I return to the Silver Slipper in Las Vegas in 1976, a night grounded in the true pathos and ambivalence of boxing…
  
  

• Holyfield on Mayweather-Ortiz – September 20th, 2011

  
  
  

• Mike Tyson Uncut – September 22nd, 2011

  
  
  

• Mack the Knife on Martinez-Barker – October 1st, 2011

  
  
  

• Khan/Peterson Square Off at DC Presser – October 6th, 2011

  In a press conference that featured as many political luminaries as it did boxing figures, it was standing room only at The W Washington DC Hotel...
  
  

• The Tyson Effect and the Fall of the Pure Boxer – October 9th, 2011

  Can we analyze the heavyweight division in a way that might better educate us on how the division has changed, and why it has declined…
  
  

• New York Boxing Hall of Fame – October 25th, 2011

  
  
  

• Jack Dempsey: True Greatness – October 26th, 2011

  A fight to Dempsey was a struggle to the death. That is how he saw it. That was the kind of special fire that burned in his blood...
  
  

• “The Rone Incident” – October 30th, 2011

  Maybe someday some boxing commissioner in some obscure state will say, “Hey hold on a minute. This one reminds me of the ‘Rone Incident'..."
  
  

• Ready for Freddie (Roach That Is) – November 9th, 2011

  A hand that never properly healed, living in Las Vegas, staying out late and drinking—not ideal for a boxer who dreamed of a title…
  
  

• Manny Pacquiao? Calm Down, Dear! – November 10th, 2011

  Lord, how we need him. Take away Manny and our battered old sport would be depressingly lacking in vintage talent...
  
  

• Top Rank Media Week—Arum Style – November 16th, 2011

  As I quietly watched him in action this past week there was a certainty in my mind that this was a man that was born to do what he was doing…
  
  

• Jim Lampley: Boxing’s Vibrant Expressionist – November 16th, 2011

  “The bottom line is that boxing attracts literate observers because the psychological confrontation between two fighters is so compelling—and so identifiable...”
  
  

• Rock Solid: Magnificent Marciano – November 27th, 2011

  Now to the big question: How good a heavyweight puncher was Rocky Marciano? The simple answer is that he was one of the true elite...
  
  

• Mike Tyson Sings in Brazil – December 9th, 2011

  
  
  

• Keith Sullivan: A Fighter’s Best Friend – December 15th, 2011

  “It sent a very clear message to commissions everywhere that fighters are human beings, not just pawns for profit, and they cannot be used and abused…”
  
  

• Mike Tyson vs. Trevor Berbick – December 21st, 2011

  Over the years we've come to know Mike Tyson as many things: song and dance man, reality show star, loose cannon on radio talk shows, celebrated guest at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, convicted rapist, et cetera, et cetera, and all that jazz. But once upon a time he was just known as Iron Mike, the "baddest man on the plant." One of his baddest moments, at least in the ring, was his Nov. 22, 1986 fight with Trevor Berbick for WBC heavyweight title. Berbick was 31-4-1 going in, having won the crown from Pinklon Thomas on March 22. Tyson was 27-0, and everybody thought he'd be too much for Berbick. Everybody was right...
  
  

• Boxing In and Out of the Ring – December 22nd, 2011

  The documentary Boxing In and Out of the Ring examines some of shadier aspects of our beloved sport—namely the games promoters play with fight managers and sanctioning bodies to get their fighters the rankings and big money fights they desire. Using interviews, fight footage, and hidden FBI surveillance cameras, the picture painted isn't a pretty one, but it's something that has been going on long before most of us were even born...
  
  

• Remembering Those Who Passed in 2011 – December 29th, 2011

  The sweet science lost some greats and near greats in 2011, and each of them will be missed. May the Lord grant them eternal comfort...
  
  

• Ron Lyle: The Dog of the Block – December 30th, 2011

  Without pretentiousness, and showing a humble appreciation for being approached, Lyle agreed to meet me for lunch…
  
  

• Navigating the Moral Landscape – December 31st, 2011

  We are not children and should not be tempted to think about complex issues as children do…