thats the most cliche crock of **** known to man kind you can say it a million times and listen to dick face atlas say it but it doesnt make it true
Did your audio feed stop at 2:49? I have to check my computer with another video. Hopefully its not mechanical and simply needs to be clean from the two minutes and forty-nine seconds of bull****.
a mentally weak 20 year old doesnt step up and fight guys that hold heavyweight titles and have been in real 12 and 15 round fights vs the real champion in Larry Holmes. Meantally weak fighters dont go 38-0 with 8 or 9 defenses of the heavyweight title and by the way unifying it by the age of 23
Let's also remember that although maybe Teddy is partially right on some things...we do have to remember that his experience of Tyson stopped at what, 15/16 years old. That's not much into the development of boy to a Man, let alone of a Fighter. So I may go with the notion that those things were there in Tyson, but Tyson, through training, teaching, and experience, was able to bury them deep within...but as long as he continued to stay trained. Because when he didn't, they started to creep back to the surface. Interesting point with this: As an amateur, Tyson used to bite his gloves. He stopped that as he progressed. That is, until he fought McBride. It's like each fight, each year, he got better all the way through Spinks but then started to decline. He first started to revert back to the brawler. Started to clinch more. Later after Prison, started to foul intentionally a lot more because he didn't have an answer like before. His skills used to be the answer. Rooney's advice use to be his guidance. Now, gone. And the young Mike pre-Catskill started to creep in.
You don't fight your way out of the gutter & earn hundreds of millions of dollars by being mentally weak.
I have huge respect for Mike Tyson (ok mediocre respect). In terms of mental strength in the ring, he is probably overall pretty high up there. But from the view of 'mental mindset' strength outside the ring. Like controlling himself, staying away from drugs and all of that ****. He was weak. Nothing wrong about that I'm in college and every time there's a frat party, 20% of the guys end up getting high and ****ed up. So even college kids lose out to temptation much less a world champion The issue with that is... there is a huge level of difference between a high school or college kid getting drunk every once in a while and trying out some drugs compare to a WORLD CHAMPION being addicted to drugs and painkillers non stop. I hate to nut hug yet again, but I'mma ****ing do it cuz i don't give a ****. Lennox Lewis when he was young, grew up in the same or similar shitty environments. When he moved back to London, the sheer amount of pleasure drugs aviable was insane. Like 10 times more then the US. Everyone will be asking Lewis ' Hey future champ, hey future champ, wanna get high on crack? wanna get high on this on that on this, and hire some birds from Liverpool and Newcastle to **** and eat cocaine off their arses? Lennox said 'NO SIR, NO DEFINITELY NOT, DEFINITELY NOT DEFINITELY NOT' no definitely not'. Lewis says NO to Drugs, domestic violence, and bullying Once again Tyson had insane talent, more then Lewis and gave everyone the greatest and most exciting short period of HW Action since Ali. His Chin is granite, and so is his heart. But nobody 'screwed' Tyson, get that out your heads. Mike Tyson screwed Mike Tyson.
Even tho it breaks my heart to think I am not going to hear that Bert Sugar voice and insight ever again, Teddy Atlas may say a lot of crap but he is the next guy to have the deepest insight after Bert has gone. Back to the subject, yeah, they are right, I have been studing the HWT Division throughout the 80s and Tyson broke in and put everything on the same path, he fulfilled Cus dream but maybe there were no dreams no more specially against a bum like Buster Douglas and in Tokyo, no Kevin Rooney when the going got tough, no Teddy Atlas to yell, I mean he lost to himself and I am not taking credit from Douglas in the biggest upset of the modern era.