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Did anyone see the story on Mike last night on ESPN's Sportscenter? they mentioned how he was sounding like someone who has been talking a lot to psychologists of late, and he sure does! All of the sudden, he gets it! Weird, much calmer, thoughtful....Weird! :blink:

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Washed up fighter.

But he can still beat a lot of the heavyweights out there today.

Bangers keep their punch for a long time; but their chins become brittle.

Tyson settled with Don King out of court for $14 million. That's chump change to the promoter, and it didn't dent Iron Mike's debt.

His life is as tragic as Sonny Liston's and he probably won't live much longer than Sonny did.

I wonder if boxing should be banned...

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  connoisseur series500 said:
Washed up fighter.

But he can still beat a lot of the heavyweights out there today.

Bangers keep their punch for a long time; but their chins become brittle.

Tyson settled with Don King out of court for $14 million. That's chump change to the promoter, and it didn't dent Iron Mike's debt.

His life is as tragic as Sonny Liston's and he probably won't live much longer than Sonny did.

I wonder if boxing should be banned...

If I had debts of 38 million, I wouldn't regard 14 million as less than a dent.

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  BERIGAN said:
Did anyone see the story on Mike last night on ESPN's Sportscenter? they mentioned how he was sounding like someone who has been talking a lot to psychologists of late, and he sure does! All of the sudden, he gets it! Weird, much calmer, thoughtful....Weird! :blink:

But, you know, I ALWAYS thought Mike had moments where he sounded like he "got it" -- where he seemed perceptive about himself and others -- he's smart, he has that disarmingly delicate-sounding voice, he's always talked about psychology -- but then he goes OFF. I'm sure this has repeated itself time and again with women in his life -- I mean, I really don't think Robin Givens and Monica Tyson (his second wife, a pediatrician, for heaven's sake!) were ONLY in it for brute strength and big $$$.

But I think it takes more than insight to stop being a Jekyll-and-Hyde. Maybe medication. Maybe nothing, at this point: poisonous combination of probably having been physically abused as a kid and NOT disciplined -- and then being handsomely rewarded for his own ability to hurt people.

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I wonder if boxing should be banned...

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Waste of talent? How about waste, period!

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they should force mike to have a vasectomy, he has enough kids he can't provide for.

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He's just one fighter who can make a case for boxing being banned.

I thought you guys were liberals! :blink:<_<

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