Mike Tyson
At the tender age of twelve years old, most African-American children in the suburbs of urbanized cities kick up their heels at the wonders of playgrounds, caged basketball courts, and jump rope. “Iron” Mike Tyson saw things differently. By that age, Tyson was primed for mugging elderly women and converting inner childhood struggles into socially unacceptable crime. Times have changed, Tyson hasn’t. Somewhere along the lines of delinquency, professional boxing trainer Cus D'Amato (the man who guided Floyd Patterson to a heavyweight title some years before) found Tyson in a boyish skirmish outside Catskill School for Boys in New York. Tyson was expelled from school for the altercation. At that point D’Amato took Tyson in, becoming his legal guardian; from then on Tyson was bred like a thoroughbred horse, strictly for fighting purposes. D'Amato saw the fighter in Tyson, he saw the aggression in Tyson, but he didn’t see the lunacy, or schizophrenic fits in Tyson. Mike Tyson didn’t see these qualities in himself, and he still doesn’t, but some of the boxing world would disagree prudently with him. At the immature age of 18, “Iron” Mike became the most dominant force in the professional boxing world
On Feb 11, 1990 the unthinkable happened. “Iron” Mike seemed to be a little more malleable on that day; Mike was knocked out by the huge underdog, Buster Douglas, in the tenth round. Tyson managed to pick himself up after the stunning upset, only to stumble into the longest fight of his career. Razor Ruddock took Tyson twelve long rounds; Mike came out on top. That would be Tyson’s last fight in the ring for the next five years. On February 10, 1992, Mike Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, and sentenced to 10 years in a federal prison. His sentence was to be carried out immediately. Behind iron bars, “Iron” Mike wasn’t fighting for gold belts and huge paychecks; instead, he was throwing punches over canned fruit and dropped bars of soap. Tyson beat one inmate within inches of his life, and knocked a prison guard out cold with one swift blow from those rock hard fists. Somehow, his sentence was cut in half, and Tyson was released on March 25, 1995. The Nevada State Athletic Commission voted 4-1 on January 29, 2002, not to issue Mike Tyson a license to fight within the state. “All we did was deny him a license within the borders of Nevada,” said Mark Ratner, executive director of the Nevada commission. The ABC is currently suggesting that other states follow Nevada by denying Tyson a boxing license. If the ABC’s suggestion were honored, that would eliminate 49 states and Indian reservations in which Tyson could fight. Tyson was looking towards Arizona for a license, but the chances of Tyson landing a license in Arizona are about as good as winning the lottery and finding Jimmy Hoffa in the same day. Bob Arum, a top ranked promoter in Arizona, published a story in Wednesday’s February, 6 edition if the Arizona Republic. He stated that Tyson was bad for the sport of boxing, and he hopes that Mike doesn’t get a license in Arizona, or anywhere else. Arum said “I think it would be a tragedy if the various states didn’t follow Nevada… it would show that the state
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