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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (2162)	3/18/2001 12:08:35 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

If he'd lived...differently...outside the ring, I'd imagine that HBO, Showtime, or ESPN would love to have laid claim to a post-boxing career Tyson as a commentator the way that Big George, Bobby Czyz and at times Jones and Reid are. He's actually supposed to have an extensive body of knowledge regarding old fighters, fights, and boxing styles, trivia, etc. - undoubtedly bestowed upon him by D'Amato, which would conceivably add a lot to any of those shows. But it will never happen, because he's undoubtedly perceived as an intolerable behavioral and reputation risk to most any employer, moreover one with media exposure. I've heard that his post-boxing plans include a rap music studio/label, although something tells me that if the "over-40 rule" recently proposed isn't passed, he'll be induced into the ring again and again and again - a mercenary boxer - as younger champs (the type who seem to look vulnerable only to former champs) come to the forefront and win belts. Maybe 10 years from now, Mike Tyson will play the role of the Larry Holmes that he himself KO'ed in 1987. LPS5

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (2162)	3/18/2001 10:09:26 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10489

Akinwande stays sharp, pounds McNeeley in 2nd by St. Clair Murraine DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER A better theme couldn't have been played for Peter McNeeley's entry when he came into the ring at The Moon to face Henry Akinwande, with the soundtrack from the movie "Mission Impossible" playing in the background. Not even the luck of the Irish on St. Patrick's Day could have saved McNeeley, who was floored three times by thundering Akinwande rights. The last one ended the scheduled 12-round right at 2:05 of the second round and made Akinwande the WBC intercontinental champion. McNeeley laid on the canvas for almost three minutes before being helped to his feet. "It's what we have been working on in the gym," Akinwande said of the right hands that dropped McNeeley. "He was trying to swing, and I was going back to find my range because he kept coming. He took some good shots. He took more than I expected." Akinwande dominated the bout from the outset, although McNeeley charged at him from the corner much like he did six years ago against Mike Tyson. But unlike the Tyson fight that McNeeley's handlers stopped in 98 seconds, there was no helping McNeeley this time. Just seconds before the end, it was obvious that Akinwande would have gotten his 25th knockout. He unleashed a booming right to McNeeley's head, sending him to the neutral corner. McNeeley took a series of jabs to the face before Akinwande let go the right that ended the fight. "I wanted to establish some authority and kind of even up the odds," McNeeley said his strategy. "He is good. He hits with some velocity. He has some good firepower." The loss was McNeeley's third in his last five fights, putting his record to 47-6. Akinwande, whose next fight is expected to take place in China this summer, improved to 40-1. In the co-feature, Sedreck Fields stopped Onebo Maxime at 2:11 of the sixth round of a scheduled eight-round heavyweight bout. Fields wore down Maxime from the opening round, knocking him down in the fifth before referee Jorge Alonso stepped in to stop the last of Fields' assaults.