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Old 07-31-2004, 11:38 AM   #9
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I agree and I disagree about the Tyson Chin. The fact is that when Tyson was a dominant fighter, nobody could land any kind of consistant offense on him because that undercut of his came from no where and pretty much took your head clean off.

Now that Tyson is a step slower and not as strong, its easy to set up the big punch off of combo's which is what killed him against Buster Douglas. He has a history of going down and not being able to recover, hence the glass jaw topic

A part of me does feel badly for Tyson. He had a horrible upbringing, and the only guy that actually tried to help Tyson and keep him on the straight and narrow was Domato. Everybody was else was there to suck the money out of him, and in order to do that the encouraged him to be the bad boy of boxing. The comments about eating children, and the ear biting was secretly encouraged by scumbags like Don King.

Yes Mike Tyson's made mistakes, and pretty horrible ones, but he's also paid for it 10x over by being naive and trusting his handlers and management who don't care about him outside of the ring.

Its a tragic tail of a talented athlete who was never prepared for the kind of status that he achieved.
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