What made Mike Tyson so popular ?

:deal True Thug!

 

On one of the interviews shown in the Uncaged documentary shortly after he'd hooked up with Don King, Tyson is rambling about racism and how he's a better fighter than he'd been with his original team. He comes off as a brainwashed drone, stuck off his own hype.

Bill Cayton may of been a sly fox in his own right (I really don't know), but he certainly doesn't come within a fraction of King's seediness.

 

Because you know his fights is going to entertain.

 

People love to argue how little of a **** Rooney and the whole Jacobs/Cayton/Lott clan really gave about Tyson the person, how Rooney is an alcoholic degenerate with a gambling problem, only talks good of Tyson today because it reflects well upon himself as a trainer, etc etc. None of that **** matters whatsoever. Rooney Always had Tyson ready for the task at hand, period.

Forget about personal feelings, he did his job. And I'd bet a large some of money he still 'cared' more than the likes of... Aaron Snowell???

 

speed and power with a killer instinct...exciting style....

sort of like the pacman today...only difference is size and intimidating presence...

 

Around 1986, I had been a huge Frank Bruno fan for four or five years and he had just lost to 'The Spoon'. I kept telling myself that Bruno was unlucky to lose so late in the fight and should be champion because he was the toughest, hardest puncher.

Then I started hearing about this other guy in America, who like Bruno, was a knockout specialist. I tried to ignore him as he couldn't possibly be as good as Frank.

Then I saw footage and thought 'Oh ****!'. It was only a matter of time until the destruction of Berbick. Every fight after that, I would tell myself that this one will beat him, he's more experienced etc. Then he would enter the ringl, walk round, head bobbing left then right, glaring at his prey, and you knew what was coming.

I still had this faint hope that Frank would be the one to dethrone him. Sadly, he would have had more chance of stopping a quickly thrown handful of M&Ms than a flurry form Tyson.

I hated Tyson in the late eighties but my god he used to get the heart racing. Even to this day people still say 'you look like you have gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson' **** all the boxing champions since.

 

Frank had Tyson wobbled for a minute in their first bout. Prior to Douglas, a complete rarity. Love digging up all the old interviews Harry Carpenter had with Tyson (as well as Bruno, obviously). Damn, I miss that guy. And I live in the States.

 

When I watched Harry interviewing Tyson it amazed me how intelligent and knowledgeable that young monster was.

 

Tyson has always been intelligent. Crazy, emotionally ****ed up, and no idea how to deal with society or fame, but he has a quick mind and retains information, facts, and details well.

That was part of his original appeal before he totally lost: he'd go in there and look like an animal knocking people out, then he'd come out with great interviews or do features on boxing history where he'd throw out all sorts of insights, obscure facts and figures, etc.

 

Tyson had this mystic were he would come out in blk trunks, blk boots,

the towel across his shoulders and his staredown man scared most

fighters into defeat before he ever threw a punch, and when he did

throw a punch he destroyed people he was a vicious mother****er

in and out of the ring

 

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From VH1's rip of the original BBC series. Tyson is on the first segment.

 

He knocked people out.

 

klitschko fanboy has spoken hahaha