Tyson is super intelligent and calm. People must have hated that.

@Kurdyukov87pianist

25 күн бұрын

What? 😂😂😂

@shawnsuave5694

8 күн бұрын

Oh they did. They were as jealous of him as.... michael Jackson.

Mike said, "Don King helped me when I was in a bad situation and I felt indebted to him". Oh, you were, Mike. And one day you woke up with $100M missing. Glad you're doing well today.

Interviewer: Mike, how do you spell Elephant? Mike: E- L - E - P - H - A - N - T .... eloquent....

I find it amazing that Mikey tucks his chin as if he were shy and reluctant. But when you talk his language about reading fighters and different styles he changes his position. Interesting.

You can tell Mike's mind had been corrupted by don king. It's on full display 32:02

Arsenio Hall lookin' pretty geometric . His head looks like an upside down triangle and his suit looks like an isosceles triangle. . Lol wtf

@joeblough261

Жыл бұрын

looooooooooooooooool! I've long thought I was the only one who noticed

@paulbirkbeck1790

10 ай бұрын

Lol that's a great assessment 😂

32:46 One of the realest non angry non biased statements made about Larry Merchant. I've often felt this way about him. Max Kellerman should have taken over for Merchant years ago but its all over now anyway with HBO refusing to cover boxing anymore.

@taekwondotime

5 ай бұрын

Larry Merchant could be your harshest critic one minute and then your greatest advocate the next. One good performance and Merchant will celebrate you for it.

@chizimwodi3099

4 ай бұрын

That’s what a real sports journalist is supposed to do. He gives less biased unrepentant view of what he saw that’s my favorite thing about Larry he has no allegiance.

@djeanpierre

Ай бұрын

Larry Merchant was a condescending, smug prick, particularly with a great Black fighters. I was glad when Bernard Hopkins told him off and Floyd cussed him out.

@healthnut3165

24 күн бұрын

@@djeanpierrethe victim mentality here we go

Kevin Rooney interviews on Mike Tyson are interesting. He basically said Tyson didn't train hard, came into Douglas fight out of shape, not "sharp" or "cut up", and shouldn't have been allowed to even fight, but Don King and Aaron Snowell and Jay Bright wanted a pay day.

Crazy how duped Mike was into thinking Cayton and Rooney were the enemy.

@RonnieGorotto

Ай бұрын

When Don King crosses over to the other side, he’s going to convince the devil to paint the walls white, get AC and make everyone where wings.

Arsenio out here looking like str'ange from boomerang😩🤣

The reason rooney left rooney was ignorance and mike won't fess up to it to this day. Kevin and Steve weren't stealing from mike. All of Mike's money was accounted for. Don wad charging him for towel for the love of God.

Saying Bill Cayton was the enemy was a terrible, deplorable attitude to have. King really poisoned Tyson’s mind He was never the same fighter once Rooney was gone. Never. That’s a fact! If Tyson, at this stage, had proper control over his career & the decisions being made, he should have given an ultimatum to King: “Kevin Rooney comes back to train me or I’m fucking you off totally”. But it was King who was calling the shots, not Tyson.

@jasonlinton9902

Жыл бұрын

Theres a book called taming the beast by tysons ex manager rory holloway i think you should read the book it is awesome in the book rory said tyson wanted rooney gone not don king rooney talked about robin and mike didnt like that so mike went up to rooney and said watch what your saying to the media about robin i know you dont like her but thats my wife kevin then kevin said fuck you mike ill say whatever i want to say mike left and then rooney filed the lawsuit for 49 million plus kevin had a huge gambling problem at the time so rory and everybody seen tyson slipping so they went to kevins house and asked him to drop the lawsuit and come back with mike and keep training him rooney looked at them and said i want 8 million or get the fuck out of my house i know king was bad but i think the book is true rory grew up with tyson and was there with him threw everything

@michaelrobinson540

11 ай бұрын

Facts.

@daveyboy_

11 ай бұрын

Poor Mike , he did so many dumb thinks back then .

@therealmulatto

11 ай бұрын

How do you guys no better than him and its his own experiences

@besikantidze6242

7 ай бұрын

Mike brake down him self as a person and as e boxer cause shit man don king help to him to do this vey good !!!

At 8:30 mike was talking about his son and naming him damato after cus but mike found out 2 months later the baby wasnt his threw a paternety test lol

@luckmanali187

Жыл бұрын

No way seroiusly

@michaelrobinson540

11 ай бұрын

​@@luckmanali187 Yes. In Mike Tyson's autobiography "Undisputed Truth" he said how that baby mama tricked him, sued him, used him and eventually "stalked" him.

@luckmanali187

11 ай бұрын

@@michaelrobinson540 stalked him lol

Gah, I wish Mike Tyson would've never fired Kevin Rooney and Bill Cayton. The prior death of Jim Jacobs really was the start of the fall.

Prime Mike here. What destroyed him was prison.

Bonecrusher held on to Tyson. Ruddock stopped Bonecrusher, but was beaten up by Tyson. Sit down you talking too much.

@theinformationbomber7102

Жыл бұрын

Whom are you talking to ?

@AlexJasso100

2 ай бұрын

@@theinformationbomber7102Yo mama

Monday March 18, 1991 !! Why was the PPV on a Monday!!??

@kidmack3556

4 ай бұрын

Weren't they usually on weeknights? I remember mostly going to my coworkers house after work for those big PPV bouts. He loved hosting them and we loved him for inviting us.

@billdouglas8701

3 ай бұрын

That was a carryover from the days when closed-circuit broadcasts in theaters and bars was the only way to watch a fight. PPV didn’t really exist at scale until Douglas-Holyfield in 1990. The reason they were on a weeknight before PPV was so that movie theaters didn’t have to give up a valuable screening room on a weekend, which are the biggest moviegoing nights. For example, for Leonard-Hearns 1 in 1981, theaters wouldn’t want to cancel a Saturday night’s showings of Raiders Of The Lost Arc. It took a few big PPVs before cable companies realized there was no reason to carry on this archaic custom.

@djeanpierre

Ай бұрын

@@billdouglas8701 damn, I've been watching boxing almost 40 years and didn't know that. I remember that Tyson-Spinks was on a weeknight too.

@billdouglas8701

Ай бұрын

@@djeanpierre For movie theaters, Monday night was preferred, as that is usually the slowest moviegoing night of the week. Tyson-Spinks and Hagler’s big fights with Hearns, Mugabi, and Leonard were all on Monday nights. For home pay per view, obviously Friday or Saturday night are better, but it took until Holyfield-Foreman in April 1991 for the promoters to realize that.

Of course *Lennox Lewis* destroyed Razor Ruddock in their match with a KO.

His "you know what I mean" thst he says comes straight from Don King. He's imitating don king.

Lmao Tyson really dissed and called it that Arsenio would be cancelled. He was really not funny and Tyson knew it

14:34 i honestly belive mike at this stage would have easily beaten anybody

@airprok8328

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@jimnewcombe7584

Жыл бұрын

Except that he'd already lost to an obscure underdog

@theinformationbomber7102

Жыл бұрын

@@jimnewcombe7584 he'd actually knocked douglas out but the ref gave douglas a long count

@mallafets

Жыл бұрын

No. Douglas watched the count on the ref to time his rise with that.

@theinformationbomber7102

Жыл бұрын

@@mallafets he got a 13 second count it's that simple

Proof Holyfield ducked a young Mike Tyson, to fight an old man. Smh.

@lucasm3879

4 ай бұрын

What proof is that exactly? Tyson fans always try and re write history. Holyfield was chasing the Tyson fight from ‘89 onwards. He just wanted the belts first so he chose Douglas after Douglas beat Tyson, which is understandable. His plan was to fight Tyson in ‘91 - he didn’t know Tyson was going to arrested for rape.

@lucasm3879

4 ай бұрын

What proof? Holyfield was chasing Tyson from ‘89 onwards. He just chose to fight Douglas first after Douglas beat Tyson because he wanted the belts, which is understandable.

@DMVBLACK

2 ай бұрын

@@lucasm3879somewhat correct, the winner of the Tyson-Douglas fight was set to fight Holyfield. Tyson lost so Douglas first (and only) title defense was against Holyfield. Also in 91 Tyson ended up breaking his hand or some shid like that in training camp and the fight got postponed. This before the Desiree Washington shid

@lucasm3879

2 ай бұрын

@@DMVBLACK Yeah the Tyson Holyfield fight was first scheduled for November ’91 (even though it would have happened in late ‘90 if Tyson beat Douglas). They did a press conference to announce the fight, when Tyson was wearing a straw hat for some reason, and you can see the posters for it, then Tyson got injured and arrested shortly after.

Double denim and white sneakers, Mike.

18:40... That is not Brownville Brookyn. I see a Palm tree

29:00 30:03

25:58 I slipped

Bernstein with the racoon eyes jesus christ what was he on

Up close interviewer seems really mean person to me.

Wait, so Holyfield didn't fight his mandatory? (Tyson)

@joeblough261

Жыл бұрын

No sir. All 3 sanctioning bodies standard rule was that the champ has one year to fight his mandatory. Because the WBC was in King's pocket in those days, they attempted to alter their rules, reducing the time to 120 days, after Holyfield bad already signed tonight Foreman. They threatened to strip Holyfield using the bogus one-time 120 day rule change, but in the 3nd they didn't, not only because it was BS, but they surely did t want to miss that sanctioning fee from the Holy-Foreman fight, as it was a huge money fight, and Holy signed tonight Tyson next, in November of the same year. But then Tyson withdrew at the last minute, claiming a rib injury. Then he went to jail. That move was a stroke of genius by Don King. I believe he realized that Holyfield was going to whoop Tyson, but if Tyson went to jail first, he'd come out as an even bigger attraction, with people convinced he's still unbeatable/invincible, and that he only lost to Douglas because he didn't train. King made probably 100M more than he would've had Holyfield ended Tyson in 1991.

@d.j.sen-gee5900

8 ай бұрын

​@joeblough261 I think Tyson woulda beat him back then

@MaddSteppa

4 ай бұрын

​@@joeblough261nah tyson should of been the mandatory defence tyson demanded the winner of Douglas vs holyfield

@lucasm3879

4 ай бұрын

@@MaddSteppa Yeah then he got arrested and sent to prison instead. Tyson v Holyfield was announced for November’91.

@lucasm3879

4 ай бұрын

@@joeblough261 Maybe. Holyfield would have whooped Tyson in late ‘91 or ‘92 if Tyson didn’t get arrested.

Razor was afraid to iron mike

@kidmack3556

4 ай бұрын

I didn't like Tyson nor Ruddock and I just watched the two fights for the very first time a couple of days ago, and Ruddock wasn't afraid of Tyson. He stumbled Tyson a couple of times. Not too many others did that.

@lucasm3879

4 ай бұрын

Ruddock could punch like a sledgehammer.

0:33:58 the white interviewer drops the hard N word multiple times 🤦🏾‍♂️

@OmarDiop-rn4so

7 ай бұрын

I though i was the only one seeing it

@varaangsingh

6 ай бұрын

Wasn't a big deal back then.

@kidmack3556

4 ай бұрын

That's the great Roy Firestone... And the athletes loved him, that's why he could say it as it relates to how they see the word. Also because both Tyson and King responded with iteration of the word to make their point.

Lol

12:40, Tyson says "retarded", no one steps up to correct him 35 years and counting...

@StanislavKozlovsk

4 ай бұрын

What

@AlexJasso100

2 ай бұрын

It was a different time. When I was in middle I use to say “retarded” all the time. Hell, I still say it.

Mike your unbeaten at this stage you lost your self discipline you lost a fight you lost your earlier credibility you should have retired after james struggled to beat you in the Japan slugfeast ...you never showed the same skill again

Proof that Holyfield avoided Tyson