Saddest Pictures in boxing

Let's see how he did against his fellow linear champions. KO'd Mike Spinks (why was Spinks wearing knee braces on both knees?), KO over Larry Holmes (he was what, 38?), LKO to James Buster Douglas, LKO to Evander Holyfield, loss DQ to Evander Holyfield, LKO to Lennox Lewis (after paying him $4 mil to get out of fighting him the first time), ducked Riddick Bowe (claimed they were friends so he wouldn't fight him), ducked Foreman (who was in his 40s for God's sake)...

How about the other linear champs who were active at the same time as Tyson? Hasim Rahman? Never fought him. Shannon Briggs? Nope. Michael Moorer? Sorry.

Does this sound like the resume of an all-time great champion to you?

 

Of course he actually did it. He was a mentalcase, remember? Bit Holyfields ear off? Admitted tio beating his wife on Barbara Walters? Been to prison twice? Beat up a couple of old guys over a minor traffic accident? Ringing any bells for ya?

 

In order to be perfect he would have had to have had a jab.

 

I'm picturing you on the jury, sequestered in the deliberation room, trying to sell the other jurors on your argument, with your axe and your bandolier...

 

In his prime, he did.