Boxing & Second Chances

Yeah coz all Ali's racist beliefs made him a model citizen!!!

 

Ali was a racist, Tyson was plain nuts.

Tyson could it tight from angles, no one dared challenge Ali, he is made it to be this role model.

if Ali came out with his **** in today's PC world he wouldn't be the "Greatest" much of what he said has been forgotten by many.

 

OK, where was I coming from with Tyson and good?
I suppose I'm looking at it from a relative point of view. What would Tyson have become were it not for boxing?

I daresay he'd have ended up spending a lot more time in prison and committing a hell of a lot more crime than he did. Or ended up dead in the gutter at a young age. Or both. Of course this is pure conjecture on my part, but it's not an outrageous leap of imagination.

So in this respect Tyson found something in himself with boxing, he wasn't perfect - as you pointed out but boxing did him more good than harm. And this is before you consider his attraction of casual fans to the sport and his status as a true student and historian of the art.

Further, having known a few people who have met him the overarching impression I get second hand is that he's a gent and has a degree of intelligence. These aspects of his character might not have come through were it not for boxing.

So for me he's a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. No need to expand on the latter two, you did that very nicely for me

It's an easy contrast to make between him and Ayala. Ayala is pure scum, unhinged and lacking in any morality or dignity. There's another dimension to Tyson's character.