"Enough with the games mate! Your messing with the Grand Master!"
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I think it was a perfect storm of events and happenstances.
Firstly, boxing was ready for a saviour. The 1980s heavyweight titles had been split and they were being passed around to various fat and uninteresting boxers ..... All of whom were never allowed to become interesting or make any money as they all worked for Don King. Fights were boring, lengthy and pretty low skill to be honest
Along comes this young force of nature (ridiculously Young) who was just blowing people away like in a new video game. Tyson was the first fighter whose management produced a highlights reel and sent it to all the press and that was a master stroke.
With a Hollywood type back story, and regal links to the past in Cus D'Amato, Tyson has all the credentials. His media image paid homage to the greats of the past, and it was if he had been created for the sole purpose of knocking people out .... Which, in a sense, he had.
He rescued heavyweight boxing, let's not forget that, and ushered in the PPV era. Later on, his train wreck of a life and mental problems playing out on the public stage was just media gold. The prison terms and press reporting later playing nicely into the establishments's fear of the 'feral black man' (controversial, I know!)
However, and most importantly, Tyson was an electrifying a performer as had ever stepped into a boxing ring.
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We all know Don King was the snake that destroyed him. We all know that.
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Don King never had any fighter worth a tinkers damn since he destroyed Tyson's life and shortened the impact of his career.
They simply couldn't trust him... name one fight of note post-Tyson that Don King had and that we can say was worth their salt? No one!
Mayweather= NO
Oscar DLH= NO
GGG= NO
Shane Mosely= NO
Manny = NO
etc, etc, etc...
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One word to describe Tyson...Ruthless
Tysons downfall was himself. His original management team hid the issues and did not deal with them early. King and the rest used him for all the money he was worth.
However Tyson was the one that got into the rape situation, blew his money and had the endless relationship failures and substance misuse issues.
Do not let success go to your head and do not let failure get to your heart.
Simple!! Because he punched with incredible force, he went out there to finish pretty much every fight as soon as he possibly could and he was a little bit crazy so you never knew what was coming next from him. Those little factors there put bums on seats and breed excitement.
Awww he was misunderstood, a quiet spoken lad just looking for love in the gutter of life wading aimlessly through blood sweat and pain after serving out a few well deserved beatings on sum fuckers.
Very human qualities.
He was never popular.
He just had a very good publicity machine.
And, when he made some big money, the leeches latched on to him.
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