Boxing - The Sweet Science

[mr.mark]

"Simply put, this was by far the worst beating Mike Tyson has ever taken. Worse than the Douglas beating, much worse than the Holyfield KO. And it wasn't that much of a surprise. Tyson looked overweight and listless. He was exhausted after two rounds, and timid after only one. His skills have gone past eroded. Many of them are extinct. Lennox Lewis has been sporting some grey hair recently, but Mike Tyson looked older than George Foreman for much of this fight. For anyone who saw past the Tyson mystique and really looked at his recent outing, this was no surprise. Tyson has long been a shell of his former self, propped up by investors who want their end back. Perhaps the only surprise for Tyson-watchers was that he fought within the rules and didn't quit on his stool. Then again, Tyson was beaten so badly that he probably wasn't aware that fouling out was an option."

excerpted from Chris Bushnell's Boxing chronicle.com article....
http://www.boxingchronicle.com/articles/lewistyson.html