This mag is gonna sell about agazillion copies. The media loves this ****. Bastids! Crazy the media is not, leeches and buzzards, maybe. BTW: I'm afraid alot of people are gonna be very mad when Mike Tyson is heavy weight champ again...(which I hope for, yeah thats right, ya wanna fight about it!?!?!?) that or they're gonna be mad that Mike went psycho in the ring again and they wasted yet another 60 bucks on yet another botched Mike Tyson fight!
Speaking of pay per view, do any of you Austinites want to get together for the fight?? We could chip in and get the fight, pizzas, beer, etc.
Yes. I've been showing up at Aussie's , but can we psiibly get r95 and major to finally keep theirword?
Interesting article on CNNsi : http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/tyson/hoffer/ In his cover story for this week's issue of Sports Illustrated, boxing writer Richard Hoffer sizes up Mike Tyson -- weighing in on his recent outbursts in Hawaii, outrageous spending habits, upcoming bout against Lennox Lewis, and more. CNNSI.com caught up with Hoffer, author of A Savage Business: The Comeback and Comedown of Mike Tyson (Simon & Schuster, 1998), for some further insight into Iron Mike. CNNSI.com: You've said that the Tyson-Lewis bout on June 8 could be "possibly the biggest fight of all time." Biggest in what way? Hoffer: Tyson-Lewis may be the biggest of all time, financially. May be. Folks at Showtime say rampant piracy of pay-per-view prevents any event from approaching the 1.9 million buys of Tyson-Holyfield II. It may also be the biggest of all time, worldwide. Lewis delivers England and makes this bout a little more wide-reaching than usual -- although Tyson, through repeated forays into Europe, may have as much name recognition there as Lewis. CNNSI.com: Which would the public be more disappointed by and why: a bad fight or Tyson on his best behavior? Hoffer: I think the public really wants to see Tyson deliver a clean, concussive performance, as in his pre-prison days. That's always been his appeal -- a strong devastating presence. The other side of him, which increasingly tends toward the bizarre, might make him better press (certainly, awareness of this fight was boosted by the melee in which he bit Lewis' leg), but not really a bigger attraction. That's not as contradictory as it sounds. With each odd result, Tyson became a little bit more marginalized. It's only the memory of Tyson, world-beater, that makes this fight possible. CNNSI.com: "Nobody really knows if Tyson can still fight, or even if he wants to. But it doesn't matter." That quotation comes from an SI story you wrote in March 1995 and it still rings true. How much longer can that statement hold up? Hoffer: Tyson is a money machine, for himself and his handlers. Since he and his handlers seem partial to money, it hardly matters whether he wants to fight or not. CNNSI.com: In this week's SI story you say of Tyson, "Only the prospect of a bout with Lewis, in the talking stages since 1995, has kept him at all meaningful." It's true that without the prospect of a Lewis fight, Tyson would have little meaning (in the sense of value or relevance) in the world of boxing, but hasn't Tyson always had larger meaning in our culture -- and won't he still long after the June 8 bout? Hoffer: Tyson has always been larger than life, both because of his ring presence and his off-canvas capers. But his attraction cannot sustain indefinite mediocrity. Even as he was fighting people like Lou Savarese, François Botha and others, interest waned. Without an actual performance, he will become even more marginialized, trotted out for event fights (like this, like a third Holyfield fight) until even that grows old. And it will. CNNSI.com: Would the public still be fascinated with Tyson if the heavyweight division was packed with talented, young, exciting fighters? Hoffer: Tyson would become irrelevant as soon as a similarly exciting fighter showed up. Presumably, that fighter would beat Tyson and the whole circus would have to come down. CNNSI.com: Where do you see Mike Tyson in five years? Hoffer: I can't imagine that this ends well for Tyson. Who sees him sitting on a beach, sipping mai tais, checking his 401(k) performance in The Wall Street Journal? Best-case scenario is that he's kept fighting as long as possible and finds some maturity before he finds more trouble. To read more from Hoffer on Tyson, pick up the May 20 edition of Sports Illustrated -- on newsstands now.
did ya see the picture inside the mag? the one where it shows his face up close screaming? i thought thats what his face must have looked while he was raping that poor girl. tyson is an ass. GO LEWIS
A couple of us on the board were thinking the same thing....Post (or email) details if y'all plan on getting together and want to invite some bbsers to drive the price down....
