McBride was fighting very dirty in that fight. Holding Tyson's neck with one hand (so Mike can't get away) and hammering him to the head with another multiple times in every round, the referee keeping a blind eye on that.
Watching "The World Tour" version of Tyson is very depressing. (He was strictly a power puncher only, nothing else)
Agreed. They say the last thing that goes is your power, and that's how it finally looked for Mike in that fight. He scored with some heavy lefts and uppercuts, to the body as well as the head, and even in combination occasionally, but it wasn't enough to put McBride in trouble. That oomph wasn't there. Flash forward to McBride-Mollo and you can see the kind of ****-kicking Tyson would've been able to hand out just a year or two earlier...the left hooks destroy McBride. I've said it before, but one of the saddest images I've ever seen in boxing is Tyson coming out of his corner for the sixth round, dripping with sweat and water, face scrunched up like a gargoyle and biting his gloves in nervous frustration.
I have been a fan of Tyson's since the first time I saw him fight, this was just seeing him at the end of his career, it wasn't sad it was just watching a man who didn't want to fight anymore because he had lost interest it was time to retire and the man made the right decision.
He didn't get beat by Mcbride, he got tired of trying to win a fight he was getting bored with.. he basically stopped trying to win in what in Mikes eyes was an unwinnable situation.. I hate seeing Mcbride at the after fight presser , saying he beat Mike Tyson and fulfilled a dream.. Mike threw his hand in and sat down as if to say "Am i actually fighting a stiff like this outa choice? " It was horrible...
At least Williams is a talented fighter with some speed, pop and heart. McBride is one of the slowest fighters I have ever seen and has only rudimentary boxing technique. Honestly, after seein him in his last fight beforehand, I would've picked a 50-year-old Tyson to wipe him out in one round, let alone one in his late thirties. It was surreal reading about it as it happened. I have still never watched the fight, and I never intend to. Not that I would be all that emotionally perturbed by it- at least I think- but what would be the point?