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Welcome to "Tuesday Tribute": a weekly video tribute to whatever I want.
This week we celebrate Kid Dynamite, Mike Tyson.
I thought that someone on the interweb should pay tribute to this rarest of sports icons before he... and his sport, pass away. It is true, and undeniable that boxing has run it's course. We were lucky to live in a time where we got to see a sport come to it's climax, and culminate with a man that embodied everything both good and bad about it.
He was the most dominating boxer I ever saw live, or on tape. His raw power was unmatched. I've read interviews where some of his former opponents admit to being scared to fight him (unheard of in the boxing world). He simply mashed his competition.
Outside of the ring, he was a sad case. He was pulled in many directions, and had no control over his life, his money, or his career. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, i'm sure. All his troubles landed him in jail a couple times, and cost him everything he had (a couple times). I would even argue that most of his trouble wasn't even his fault.
Nonetheless, this guy really won't be alive very long. And, neither will boxing. Mixed Martial Arts (of which we'll see many Tuesday Tributes) is a much better product, and is already making alot more money than boxing.
MMA is the future... and I expect Mike Tyson to give it a shot before he packs it in. They'll offer him 10 million, and he'll take it because he'll need it. This meeting will be the true passing of the torch to MMA....
...and the passing of a man who was the epitomy of boxing's best... and worst.
The good...
The bad...
Welcome to "Tuesday Tribute": a weekly video tribute to whatever I want.
This week we celebrate Kid Dynamite, Mike Tyson.
I thought that someone on the interweb should pay tribute to this rarest of sports icons before he... and his sport, pass away. It is true, and undeniable that boxing has run it's course. We were lucky to live in a time where we got to see a sport come to it's climax, and culminate with a man that embodied everything both good and bad about it.
He was the most dominating boxer I ever saw live, or on tape. His raw power was unmatched. I've read interviews where some of his former opponents admit to being scared to fight him (unheard of in the boxing world). He simply mashed his competition.
Outside of the ring, he was a sad case. He was pulled in many directions, and had no control over his life, his money, or his career. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know, i'm sure. All his troubles landed him in jail a couple times, and cost him everything he had (a couple times). I would even argue that most of his trouble wasn't even his fault.
Nonetheless, this guy really won't be alive very long. And, neither will boxing. Mixed Martial Arts (of which we'll see many Tuesday Tributes) is a much better product, and is already making alot more money than boxing.
MMA is the future... and I expect Mike Tyson to give it a shot before he packs it in. They'll offer him 10 million, and he'll take it because he'll need it. This meeting will be the true passing of the torch to MMA....
...and the passing of a man who was the epitomy of boxing's best... and worst.
The good...
The bad...
The ugly.
2 comments:
good work brad.
Nice pluck out of the sporting ether..
But don't let's crown the MMA just yet. Lets just wait until someone gets killed and then lets see if they still draw national TV money...
Great clips....it is sad watching him, he really doesn't understand how bad he looks and sounds.
You are right about boxing being dead. There is no one to watch anymore and even when there is a good matchup it only last a couple minutes.
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