Mike Tyson’s uncensored quotes
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I don’t know if this is funny, enraging or just sad. I guess this is the psychological damage that happens when your whole career is based on being a Giant Negro.
Hat tip to Stereohyped.
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- Written by Carmen Van Kerckhove
- July 23rd, 2007 at 7:00 am
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bertie wrote:
the answer is (d)… all of the above. I always wonder what might of been if Cus D’Amato (his trainer/surrogate father) hadn’t died so early in his career. Or if he hadn’t gone to prison. It seems to me Tyson went off the deep end after that. His pre-prison antics were out there but not uncommon for boxing. It seems like he needed boxing to escape the path to prison he was on but even boxing could not stop the inevitable. Once he realized that he just gave up. Truly sad case.
Posted 23 Jul 2007 at 4:49 pm ¶
Jay Smooth wrote:
I’ve always found Mike Tyson one of the most compelling tragic figures of our lifetime.. it’s hard to justify him as a sympathetic figure since his words and actions are often so repulsive, but the story of how the boxing world took this fragile forgotten kid so desperate for (self) love and (self) respect, gave him this warped, monstrous sense of esteem based on celebrating and exploiting all his most destructive instincts, then chewed him up and spit him out as the bitter and broken man we see today.. IMO it’s a powerful parable, says so much about our relationship with money/fame/media.
I def. agree that leaving the d’amato/kevin rooney camp was the worst move he ever made, he was always surrounded by toxic sycophants after that.. gotta wonder how different the story might be…
Posted 24 Jul 2007 at 12:23 pm ¶
Anirban wrote:
“it’s hard to justify him as a sympathetic figure”
please stop doing that . THe whole post is moot. It is the brain damage from the repeated blows . Nothing else. Hollifield si a giant negro as well , I suppose
Posted 24 Jul 2007 at 2:38 pm ¶