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Pastimes : Boxing: The Sweet Science -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: scoobypax who wrote (2108)	3/13/2001 9:05:24 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

Allow me to retort, Scoob: I think you, in that message, have articulated my thoughts quite accurately. :) * Let me start by saying that I am a boxing fan, and that this is a boxing thread; this is not** a "Mike Tyson" thread. I am an Iron Mike Tyson fan within the context of loving the sport of boxing: not the other way around... I still look forward to his fights, and sincerely believe that he'll beat Lewis, but I tell you...becoming the unified heavyweight champ at the age of...21, was it?...was probably the worst thing that could have happened to him. Too much, too fast; too much concentration on developing the figher - in my opinion, even Cus D'Amato, closest person to a father Tyson had ever had - should have thought more about the boy outside the ring than the steely-eyed killer inside the ring. I grew up only a few neighborhoods from where Tyson did, and spent a good amount of time in boxing gyms and rings both as a kid and then in college, and I can tell you - as if you'd need me to, LOL - that the combination of those environs, within the framework of little or no family life, the inherent misogyny that breeds in such places, and the survivalist mentality - all capped off with little or no education and far more money than a young person knows what to do with...creates sad, and often scary, personages. Hopefully Mike's meeting with the press a few weeks back - where he said that he is determined, in the next few years, to pick up where he left off in 1989 - was not only genuine, but will be so evidently, as reflected in his actions. And that means whether he's winning or losing in the ring. LPS5 A boxing fan