What would Cus D’Amato think?

I think you have to much time on your hands.

 

No damn way. Cus would’ve kept him on a tight leash, he would have stayed straight.

 

I have always found Cus to be given an all time pass on Tyson ... he was a true boxing guy, yes. He was also a true eccentric and his adoption of Tyson was not simply good will but an opportunity he identified, nurtured and guarded as a top investment and shot at ultimate redemption , often at the detriment of Tyson developing as a human being with passes for very bad behavior, ect ... that aside , Tyson was always a creature on the cutting edge of his time, the original gangster/rapper in the 80's and most recently the co-star in a huge event decades later ... who knows what motivates Tyson as he is a true unique character who has lived a life unlike almost any other and his calculated decision to take a shot for twenty million dollars decades after he pissed through half a billion is all his to make ... as far as Cus , he of Peter Rademacher, ducking Liston, mob dramas and so on , even he would have been in no position the entity that Tyson has become ...

 

What would Cusdmato think about everything horrible that Tyson has done? His bout against Jake Paul was the least of Tyson's problems. Who could blame him for taking a reported £15,000,000 for sixteen minutes against a 'non-professional professional' boxer?

 

Cus was not a Boxing purist. He would be fine with it

 

What, like he failed to do in actual reality?

 

he’d have understood the 20mil Tyson got paid to participate in this kayfabe match with a guy who was purposely aiming to not hurt him. Might not have loved it, but he’d have understood — Tyson just secured his retirement. He doesn’t have to do a goddamn thing again if he doesn’t want to.

i hate how it has to go down, but I’m happy the old champ can enjoy retirement now.

 

I think that thinking about it and analyzing this fight in general is unworthy of this forum... it has nothing to do with aqua sports or marketing. Tyson was a great champion, maybe the greatest we have ever seen, but it lasted for a very short time, about a few years. Everything that happened to him later is unfortunately more or less controversial, but it is always a consequence of who he was in the 1980s. We might as well wonder if Cus would be proud that Mike went to prison twice, was divorced several times, was a drug addict undergoing psychiatric treatment, etc.

 

The tales of D'Amato being some kind of Corinthian boxing purist standing alone against the Mob do not jive with me,he was connected to and financially assisted by Fat Tony Salerno.
He had no scruples about putting Floyd in with a debutee ,and other undeserving types,and he was willing to train Wilt the Stilt to "fight" Ali.
Cus wasn't motivated by money,but by his ego,and that sometimes made him a hypocrite imo.