Tyson heads to boxing hall alive and well

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Tyson heads to boxing hall alive and well
Mike Tyson and I were sitting around a few months back, talking around,round life.
His life, that is, a subject Tyson seems to find almost as fascinating as a lot of other people do.
"When I was younger I thought I was going to destroy myself," Tyson told me. "I'm very grateful I made it to this place in my life."
That place is a far different place than I ever imagined Tyson to be in the years I spent covering his career. By this time I figured he would be in prison, homeless or off by himself tending to pigeons somewhere.
Actually, I figured he would be dead.
Stabbed in a strip club, shot by a jealous husband. Perhaps overdosed on cocaine.
But dead, long before he confronted middle epoch,era,period,times. Like Tyson, I was convinced he would destroy himself.
Instead, in a development just as stunning as Tyson losing to Buster Douglas, he has launched a second career the old Iron Mike never would have recognized.
Now the 44-year-old is heading to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Cue the jokes now, but there's no truth to the rumor his bust will be placed next to a bronze replica of Evander Holyfield's ear.
He'll be there because he once was truly was the baddest man on the planet.
OK, so the bar for entry in the boxing hall isn't set all that high. Proof was the declare,proclaim,pronounce,Nike Shox R4,advertise,broadcast,publishment that player,performer Sylvester Stallone is joining Tyson as one of the 12 members of next year's class.
Unless you were around when Tyson reigned as the heavyweight champion of the world, it's hard to imagine just how big he was. It's also hard to imagine how troubled he was, though the tabloids of the late '80s and early '90s were filled with daily reminders of the difficulties he had outside the ring living up to what he did inside the ring.
"I got intoxicated with myself," Tyson sassist,help. "I didn't know how empty I was as champ."
I was sitting at ringside the night Tyson knocked out Trevor Berbick in the second round at the Las Vegas Hilton to become the youngest heavyweight champion ever. Later that night I watched as the fearsome 20-year-old paraded proudly around the casino with the gaudy WBC title belt wrapped around his waist.
Nearly a quarter century later Tyson is drawing laughs look,seeming in movies and videos that parody his former self. But there was nothing funny around,round the man-child who was at the same time both frightening and fascinating.
If this were another hall of fame,mens nike shox, Tyson would have no chance of getting in. He served time behind bars for both rape and assault, narrowly missed another prison term behind,at the back of being caught with cocaine in Arizona and generally behaved so badly over the years that normal society wouldn't want anything to do with him.
But this is boxing, not baseball. And no one who watched Tyson viciously pummel opponents in his prime would ever question his place between,amid,amongst the sport's all-time greats.
His prime didn't last long, a little over three years before Douglas exposed him as a one-trick fighter in Japan. But promoters were still selling Tyson a decade later to boxing fans who didn't understand that he was simply going through the motions to make another payday.
"You become a freak, so to speak," he told me. "People stare at you and you don't understand why the averepoch,era,period,times person looks at you like you're someone special."
Tyson is remarkably good at analyzing himself and harshly candid when it comes to talking around,round his shortcomings. He's every psychiatrist's dream patient,Nike Shox ONine SI, and every talk show host's dream guest.
It's been five years since an out-of-shape and disinterested Tyson was knocked out in his final fight by Kevin McBride, journeyman heavyweight who wouldn't have lasted a round with him in his heyday. He's now approaching middle epoch,era,period,times and seems to have finally shed at least some of the demons that constantly tormented him.
Iron Mike is now Hall of Famer Mike.
Alive and surprisingly well.

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