The bout was a farce, but you can watch months of “proper” sport without experiencing a buzz like seeing Mike Tyson back in the ring.
. A degrading spectacle that pitted a puffed-up YouTuber with a big mouth against an ageing, broken, semi-delusional former champion.This might seem an odd thing to say, when the eight two-minute rounds were so devoid of action that they dragged on as painfully as an Adam Sandler movie.
I countered by suggesting that the whole edifice of Paul-Tyson was actually built on romance. On the fond yet unrealistic hope that the 58-year-old Tyson could summon up the dregs of his former greatness, and make one last epic stand.To me, this explains why all the pre-match polls were so close, and why the betting odds – flying in the face of logic – were virtually evens. It explains why, on Wednesday night, the undercard fighters had come down 9-3 in favour of a Tyson victory.
It’s worth pausing for a moment to reflect on the scale of the Tyson legend. He ranks in the highest echelon of sporting giants, a name to place alongside Tiger Woods, Roger Federer and Zinedine Zidane. As with those three, it wasn’t just what he did, but the magnetic, irresistible manner in which he did it.
We were even keener to press rewind, to go back in time to the days when he was monstering opponents in the first round. Hopeless sporting addicts that we are, we wanted one rush of Tyson’s finest.
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