Mike would have eventually self destructed anyway, Cus was a great trainer, but not much of a Psychiatrist. Tyson was a disgrace to boxing and a pitiful excuse for a champion who quit on his stool against a club fighter named Kevin McBride. True Champions don't quit like that, Mike was a heavy puncher with a world class support group who put together a promotional high light reel that in truth was genius. But much like Primo Carnera, Mike had a great deal of help. Cus, Jacobs, Clayton, Rooney, Atlas, and Giacettie make up a list that reads like a wall at boxing hall of fame, and any one of them could have fixed a dozen fights. When you take into account most if not all of those guys Mike was crushing in such spectacular fashion early in his career worked for Don King, the reality becomes more clear. Sorry to shatter your illusions fellas, but boxing is an entertainment business first and a sport a distant second. Mike's early career was a long, very well documented media highlight reel by design from the very beginning. Brilliant yes, but only because it was all scripted. Tyson's career was pretty much a long series of fixed fights designed to sell a con, and a lot of you guys bought it.
Without the support group creating the fiction, Mike's legacy is Buster Douglas in Tokoyo, Evander getting his ear bit while beating the crap out of Mike twice, Lewis putting Mike flat on his back in a pool of Mike's blood, and Williams then McBride ending Mike's career in disgrace, with Mike sitting on his stool refusing to answer the bell instead of fighting.
I don't think so. Of course he would have had a better career, because hardly a trainer understood so much about boxing as Cus D'Amato did. Tysons problem however was Tyson himself. In 1998 Tyson said in an interview that he has never been happy his entire life. Tyson hated training, he hated it to hurt others in the ring(as said in an interview) and he hated himself. Plus the one with the three years in prison could also have happened with Cus on boat, which gave him the rest.
He won most of his fights with Kevin Rooney in his corner.As soon as he got rid of kevin it was all downhill.Kevin is still alive
nice blog....baba...lol
you still have to answer what if d'amato didnt die...
but then again he died, and all the sh!t on mikes career happened...
so now you made yourself believe that kid dynamite is just a fiction?
w/o d'amato, the leader of the syndicate, the one who decide who mike will fight... how come mike still made credible wins?
truth is, mike did self distract, its in his dna... its inevitable w/o a father in cus who guides a son in mike...
people put mike in such a pedestal not due to his victories but to his power... something thats rarely seen to a boxer.... I hope one day youll see it too
then he'd be immortal!
No way, he would have gotten big and also go with Don King for money and freedom to go out and fondle victims. It's only later on in his life was when he realized his mistakes.
would he have retired undefeated?
