Book about Tyson-Lewis 2002 Superfight

Wass1985 · Mar 4, 2015

Frankel said: ↑

Funny how that fight is called a "SUPER FIGHT" yet one of the combatants was addicted to prescription Anti Depressants, Alcohol, Cocaine & Cannabis. the fight had to be held in Memphis due to that fighter would fail a drug test anywhere else in the world???... pathetic!
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Oh the old drug addiction excuses are in fashion now.... Love it I do..

michaeldokes · Mar 4, 2015

I've heard it said before, "everyone in boxing is on SOMETHING."

michaeldokes · Mar 4, 2015

Saintpat said: ↑

Interesting info on the book from Amazon:

It is written by a character who calls himself Scoop Mulinowski, who is know for wearing a fedora with an index card with "PRESS" written on it.

He has a tennis blog.

That seems to be his claims to fame.

It is selling on Amazon for $200 new and anywhere from $189 to more than $300 used.

It was published in 2009. I would call it rare, if only publishing a handful of copies by some "you pay them to print it" publisher makes something rare.

If you want to throw away a couple hundred bucks for something like this, be my guest.
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$200 is absurd price. Here it's selling for $11 on amazon. Must be second edition.

amazon.com/Heavyweight-Armageddon-Inside-Historic-Championship/dp/1493625888/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1425507469&sr=1-1&keywords=scoop+malinowski

Savak · Mar 4, 2015

The more i watch this fight, the more ****ed off i get. Tyson's performance that night was utterly disgraceful. I get even more ****ed off at Shelly Finkel and Tyson's trainers, corners for even allowing this match to go ahead in that time frame.

Tyson was horribly unprepared. Age, loss of skills/reflexes was one thing but the least you can do is to atleast train, condition yourself to go for 12 rounds and to give some respect to your opponent and do your home work on him.

Every layman knew Lewis was a very skilled boxer who could clinch, jab, throw right hands, upper cuts and move around the ring. A lucky punch tactic against such a fighter was disasterous and Lewis knowing Tyson's power was not going to give him such a luxury.

Savak · Mar 4, 2015

I must say i think Tyson vs Lewis in 1996 would have been a more entertaining fight. I think Tyson in 1996 should have fought Lewis and not ducked him, his performance would have been much better compared to 2002.

michaeldokes · Mar 5, 2015

Tyson and King ducked Lewis in the 90s, even paid him millions in step aside money with the promise Tyson would fight Lewis AFTER Seldon. Of course, Tyson and King reneged on that promise and vacated the WBC belt to duck Lewis. Lewis won the vacant WBC belt vs. McCall in 97. Tyson and King didn't want any part of Lewis. Finally Tyson was forced into the fight in 2002, when Showtime saw bad TV ratings for the Tyson Nielson fight.

Frankel · Mar 5, 2015

michaeldokes said: ↑

Tyson and King ducked Lewis in the 90s, even paid him millions in step aside money with the promise Tyson would fight Lewis AFTER Seldon. Of course, Tyson and King reneged on that promise and vacated the WBC belt to duck Lewis. Lewis won the vacant WBC belt vs. McCall in 97. Tyson and King didn't want any part of Lewis. Finally Tyson was forced into the fight in 2002, when Showtime saw bad TV ratings for the Tyson Nielson fight.
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Lewis did not have to accept step-a-side-money. He could have said, NO and went and fought for the title and a guaranteed purse of $14 million... But Lewis never fancied his chances against that version of Tyson, So he waited another 7yrs until Tyson had completely self-destructed

Wass1985 · Mar 5, 2015

Frankel said: ↑

Lewis did not have to accept step-a-side-money. He could have said, NO and went and fought for the title and a guaranteed purse of $14 million... But Lewis never fancied his chances against that version of Tyson, So he waited another 7yrs until Tyson had completely self-destructed
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Complete bull**** from another nuthugger, Tyson didn't want no part of big Lennox. After their bout I can see why..

Azzer85 · Mar 5, 2015

michaeldokes said: ↑

Tyson and King ducked Lewis in the 90s, even paid him millions in step aside money with the promise Tyson would fight Lewis AFTER Seldon. Of course, Tyson and King reneged on that promise and vacated the WBC belt to duck Lewis. Lewis won the vacant WBC belt vs. McCall in 97. Tyson and King didn't want any part of Lewis. Finally Tyson was forced into the fight in 2002, when Showtime saw bad TV ratings for the Tyson Nielson fight.
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Tyson never ducked Lewis, he dropped the belt to fight Holyfield for more money.

He got $35m for fighting Holyfield, one of the highest paydays of the time.

Accusing Tyson of ducking Lewis to fight Holyfield is like accusing Mayweather of ducking Amir Khan to fight Pacqiauo.

michaeldokes · Mar 5, 2015

Tyson paid Lewis the $4m step aside with the promise he would fight Lewis in the very next fight after Seldon. Lewis felt it was a smart decision, take the $4m and fight Tyson next. But Tyson reneged and gave up the WBC belt.

If Lewis didn't take the step aside and demanded to fight Tyson first, Tyson and King surely would have just vacated the belt to duck Lewis. No doubt. King and Tyson were not going to risk their revenue stream by losing the title to Lewis, whom King did not control. King wanted to stay in control of the belts and Tyson followed King's moves.

Stevie G · Mar 5, 2015

michaeldokes said: ↑

This was the last major superfight in boxing, between two major stars. This fight transcended the sport with the good guy vs the villain angle. It was a good fight in the first couple rounds as Tyson went for the homerun, but Lewis settled down and began to dominate, administering a frightful beating on Mike.

The book really goes into deep detail about this super fight. Excellent read.
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Just before departing to the arena from his rented house, Lewis was studying a videotape of Tyson's first defeat to Buster Douglas. Lewis's final preparations in the last twenty-four hours before battle were quite interesting and rather unique. "Just before we left to go to the arena, we turned Douglas-Tyson on," Courtney Shand said. "He watched that tape a lot in that house."

I asked Shand what they did in the last forty-eight hours before the fight, to prime Lewis to be at his optimum peak, mentally and physically. "There's a lot of dead time, with idle time on your hands. That's where the mental focus has to be real sharp. There's enough to stimulate you. But you can get bored. And if you start getting bored, sitting there trying to not think about the fight, trying to put your mind in other places, that can be catastrophic. So our main focus on that day before and during the fight is certain points, certain things. We might see him get up and do something. When he does it, you remind him of certain things. If he gets up and starts moving around, okay, remember when you do that? Do this. And as soon as you do that, do that. Positive reinforcement. If you push Tyson a certain way, we know what he's going to do before he resets himself to throw a punch. So capitalize on that. When Mike does things a certain way, expect this. Positive reinforcing. We don't just go in and jump on him. As soon as Lennox shows us that fire, we're on him. Keep drilling it in. Keep drilling it in."

"Again, its when he gets up and turns on the TV, he watches a certain section of the fight, okay, remember do this when you see this. What do you do if?...Sometimes we put questions on him. Okay, you saw what Buster just did right there, okay, what do you gotta do when that happens? When you get him off you, what do you have to do? Just keeping his mind stimulated. 'Cause he has to read it. 'Cause he's like a quarterback in a football game. He gets up there, he sees the defense lining up, just before he huts the ball and they shift...he's got to read that. It's the same thing. He's got to read what Tyson is gonna do. Read from his body language. Read from the way he's setting his feet. Because Tyson's like a deliberate fighter. We watch our fights too. Because we gotta ****yze what the other guy is trying to ****yze about us. See what things we're doing that they might try to take advantage of. They're smart, and we think we're smart. They're trying to match wits."

"By the time he goes to bed, God bless his sleeping. He does sleep. But I don't personally think he can sleep on Saturday because of all that reinforcement, all the stuff we've worked on the week before the fight. It's a dangerous time. Because all that week you go from training six, seven hours a day to the week of the fight, training maybe an hour, an hour-and-twenty minutes the whole day. There's a lot of dead time that we need to keep him focused."

Shand says Lewis also likes to watch karate movies and play ping pong in those final hours. Lewis says table tennis sharpens his hand and eye speed.

As the team gathered to leave the house for the Pyramid, Lewis showed his sense of humor when it was least expected. "He said, Call HBO, tell them I'm not fighting. Tell them the fight's off," said Scott DeMercardo. Then Lewis smiled and the small entourage climbed into a white Ford Explorer stretch limousine.

Lewis emerged from the vehicle inside the Pyramid looking perfectly relaxed. HBO cameramen were there to greet him. He was wearing a red sweatsuit, black ragamuffin hat, and black shades. He was chewing gum. Tyson arrived just before Lewis in a giant Rolls Royce limo, wearing a tight-fitting blue short-sleeved muscle shirt. He was looking cool too, except for the huge sweat stains on his shirt.

They went straight to their respective dressing rooms. Lewis prefers a quiet dressing room, so he can lay down on a cot and catch a snooze. It is hard to believe that a man could manage to take a nap with such a daunting task so near. But Lewis likes to sleep a little before stretching and getting his hands wrapped. Tyson, by contrast, takes the more expected approach to fight preparation. In fact, it was once reported, before the Tyson-Spinks fight, Tyson punched holes in the concrete wall while rousing himself into a rage. You could imagine the high voltage mood in Tyson's room, with Crocodile hollering and the rap music blaring.

After the final preliminary - IBF Junior Featherweight champ Manny Pacquiao crushed Jorge Julio in the second round - the moment of truth had finally arrived. The ring was empty for a good 30 minutes, as everyone waited for the warriors to arrive. Then Mike Tyson strode out of his dressing room, to the beat of rap music by DMX's What's My Name?

Heavyweight Armageddon The Tyson-Lewis Championship Battle is available at amazon.
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Good and interesting read :good

I always heard that Lennox liked to sleep before big bouts. I heard that he had to be woken up before the Razor Ruddock fight......By Razor's brother no less !

Stevie G · Mar 5, 2015

Azzer85 said: ↑

Danny Williams did it in half the time Lewis did.
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And as way over the hill Tyson was for the Lewis bout,he had declined even further by the time he fought Danny.

michaeldokes · Mar 5, 2015

Stevie G said: ↑

Good and interesting read :good

I always heard that Lennox liked to sleep before big bouts. I heard that he had to be woken up before the Razor Ruddock fight......By Razor's brother no less !
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Can't imagine how anyone could be so relaxed to sleep before a big fight. But Lewis was one cool brother.

This book has tons of insider anecdotes about Lewis and Tyson, from so many different perspectives.

michaeldokes · Mar 5, 2015

Stevie G said: ↑

And as way over the hill Tyson was for the Lewis bout,he had declined even further by the time he fought Danny.
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Tyson was a shell of his once great self even after the loss to Buster. I think the decline even started as far back as the Robin Givens/Ruth Roper fiasco marriage. Tyson declined considerably from the early 90s but he still presented danger to Lennox who was too smart and too good to mentally crumble under the enormous pressure.

michaeldokes · Mar 5, 2015

Another cool insight was Muhammad Ali's reactions watching Lewis vs. Tyson on PPV by Leroy Neiman who was sitting next to him. Tons of cool info like that.

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