losses you never quite got over

[Master]

Tyson/Lewis was pretty hard too, I was new to boxing and of course loved Tyson like most do, and to see him get KTFO over and over on the sports shows the morning after sucked. I hated Lennox for years for it.

First PPV I refused an invite to.
Based on who they were feeding to Tyson: McNeely & Mathis, I just couldn't see Tyson beating him, in fact to this day...I have never watched the whole fight.

Hard to not get over a loss, I refused to watch.

It took me years to watch the fight, I was very new to boxing so I didn't understand that the formerly great Tyson was a lamb being lead to the slaughter against Lennox the same way so many were lead to him in the 80s.

That fight was so big. I remember having to make a collect call from a payphone a few days later and the middle aged female operator asked me if I saw the fight and we had a short conversation about how we couldn't believe Tyson lost hahah, EVERYONE was talking about it.

I knew Tyson would lose, but that did not stop me hoping he would win after a good first round. The rest of the fight was just a beat down.

[Beanflicker]

I guess the one-punch KO loss to Rahman Lewis suffered a year prior gave a lot of people hope that Tyson could land that one home run shot.

[Master]

I guess the one-punch KO loss to Rahman Lewis suffered a year prior gave a lot of people hope that Tyson could land that one home run shot.

Press over here were hying the fight but Tyson was smoking spliff in Haiwai whilst in training.

[Master]

Herol Graham lost to Mike McCallum by a point deducted by the referee after he turned his opponent. That was bad luck. remember that fight because the commentator Harry Carpenter could not commentate during the fight only in-between the rounds as they were on strike. It was unusual experience watching the fight.