who will win?
[quote]acurals87 wrote:
who will win?[/quote]
who will care?
Tyson all the way baby. I’ve been a fan…Even though he makes it very, very hard to be a fan of his…But all the articles say he’s turned over a new leaf and he’s a different person now. My money’s for Tyson.
I think that it is time for the noble irish race to reclaim the title as best fighters.
Muhamad Ali
Is this a typo? It is a quote from McBride from an article on ESPN:
“In boxing, anybody over 200 pounds can hit and I see myself as a bigger, stronger man than Danny Williams,” said McBride, who is dedicating the fight to his late father, Kevin Sr., who died six years ago. “I come to fight. I train hard. I’m bench pressing 265 pounds.”
265 pound bench? Tell me they just misquoted him because of his accent, right?
Erm probably not. You know the way you hate how so many people in America train like idiots? Well here its worse.
We jog 10 laps of a field for speed training.
30 sets of bicep curls with iso holds in the middle for strength training.
Run between 4 cones for an hour for agility.
Seriously I’m not kidding, training knowledge is really poor here. You see that number, it honest to goodness wouldnt surprise me. I know inter county gaa players (kinda like aussie rules in athletic requirements, like half way between soccer and rugby players) having max bench presses of 150 pounds. Hardly anyone athletes weight train at all here, over there every sports player does. Its backwards.
Its all because coaches here seem to be really old and set in their ways. We aren’t a nation that accepts change very well and sure everyone know weights will make you muscle bound and slow right? Or so I hear.
Since the advent of the UFC my interest in boxing has diminished. However, one can’t help but look when a Tyson fight is about to happen. It’s sort of like driving slowly past some sort of twisted accident by the side of the road. You know it won’t be pretty, but you have to look.
I honestly have no idea who will win!
If I had to guess I would say that any ranked pro boxer who has trained diligently for a fight would have to be a favorite to beat Tyson.
Keep in mind that Tyson is nuts…don’t ever forget that. It used to help him, now it hurts him. Odd huh?
slight tangent:
Does anyone know of any bar/restaurante chains that will have the fight on tonight?
Maybe he got 265 for 30 reps?
Tyson wouldn’t get off the stool for the 7th round.
It is a sad ending for Tyson. He’s been slowly disintergrating in multiple ways for about 13 years now. His last 5 or 6 performances have been pathetic. It is sad to watch a man who at one time was truly a “terror”… to fall apart mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually for the whole world to see. (and pony up the $$ for the pay-per-view-privledge) It has been a long time since he was really at the top of his game, and he still captures the imagination of fight fans. I feel sorry for Tyson. He is an old, spent, circus side-show now. I hope he doesn’t fight again. I’ve seen enough.
[quote]studgorilla wrote:
It is a sad ending for Tyson. He’s been slowly disintergrating in multiple ways for about 13 years now. His last 5 or 6 performances have been pathetic. It is sad to watch a man who at one time was truly a “terror”… to fall apart mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually for the whole world to see. (and pony up the $$ for the pay-per-view-privledge) It has been a long time since he was really at the top of his game, and he still captures the imagination of fight fans. I feel sorry for Tyson. He is an old, spent, circus side-show now. I hope he doesn’t fight again. I’ve seen enough.[/quote]
I agree Tyson is finished.
Tyson made a lot of money from this fight even though he lost and he says all the time that he is doing these fights to pay his bills. So it seems to me that his heart was never really in it and that a win in the ring for him would have been the icing on the cake(the cake being his cheque).
Well he lost! I was shocked, his heart isn’t in it anymore. Oh well, he had his time & now it’s other boxers turn. Out w/ the old, in w/ the new.
I still want to see tyson vs. Butterbean. That is the only Tyson fight I would pay for.
tyson has retired.
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-11-tyson-mcbride_x.htm?csp=34
Tyson will be back when he needs the money.
PREDICTION: Tyson will fight again in either the UFC or Pride!
[quote]m_dimichele wrote:
I’ve always been a Mike Tyson fan since the days of Cus D’Amato and Kevin Rooney. However, to say that Tyson’s skills, agility, and stamina have declined over the years would be an understatement.
Tyson moves like an old fighter…they lack that bounce and snap that young fighters have. He still has amazing speed of hands, however, his footwork has left him almost completely. His footwork, which was absolutely essential to him being a heavyweight contender and champion and almost nobody ever talks about, was what allowed him to get inside and cutoff larger and taller opponents. Now, he pratically stands there and dares you to hit him (i.e. Lennox Lewis and Evander Holyfield).
Tyson does still possess that amazing one punch knockout power, which in a weak heavyweight division, can still get you places. You can tell that he probably has spent more time in the weightroom than in the sparring ring over the past 5-6 years. At least he still has that power and it will probably be the last thing to go on him.
Kevin McBride was selected as a pushover, punching bag of a tomato can to get Tyson warmed up to fight more impressive and skillfull opponents. He is big and powerful, but he is clumsy…that is where Tyson flourishes…
In my most sincere opinion, McBride can still be a dangerous opponent to Tyson 2005 whereas he would have been destroyed quickly and easily in 1985. But, it isn’t 1985 and Tyson isn’t the same fighter either. I say Tyson needs to KO McBride within 1-2 rounds or he will lose this fight by KO or TKO himself. He just doesn’t have the stamina anymore, despite what the new Tyson trainer, have been saying. But, me being the forever optimistic Tyson fan, I think he can do it.
Prediction: Tyson by KO 2nd round. [/quote]
bro you nailed it except the 2nd round ko-which he was definitely trying for. nice call.