Mike Tyson so desperate he’ll fight women
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Are Eddie Murphy and Mike Tyson being blackmailed or something? I just don’t understand why both are willing to do anything for a paycheck.
Last week we told you about Eddie Murphy’s latest travesty, in which he’ll double up on the buffoonery by playing both a mammy and an Asian man.
And now Mike Tyson has announced that he’s going to start fighting women (in the ring for once, hehe). From SI.com:
At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson said he would likely go just four rounds and that future stops on the tour might include bouts with women, possibly professional boxer Ann Wolfe. Wolfe, from Waco, Texas, is 21-1 with 15 knockouts.
“She’s such a prominent, dominant woman in the boxing field,” Tyson said.
When asked if he was joking about fighting women, Tyson said, “I’m very serious.”
Russ Young, a promoter for Wolfe, said such a bout will never happen.
“That’s the first we’ve heard of it,” Young said. “No state would sanction that. She would be outweighed by 60 to 70 pounds. Ann would never entertain the idea.”
It’s sad that this formerly great athlete has become such a freak show.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
dcase wrote:
Mike Tyson may have once been a great athlete but he was always a freak show. His ability to quickly and savagely demolish opponents in a consistent manner made him as popular as any athlete has ever been during their career (incidentally, much of Muhammad Ali’s superstar popularity came near the end and after his career when the post ’60’s revisionists took over and extricated him from his association with black militancy and the Nation of Islam) and made him, his management, and the industry as a whole, copious amounts of money. Unfortunately, it is also Tyson’s exit from competitiveness that has helped contribute to the decline in boxing’s viewership. No one generates excitment like Tyson did. It is pitiful the way his life has turned out.
Posted 18 Oct 2006 at 3:19 pm ¶