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<\/p>\nMike Tyson, once the \u201cBaddest Man on the Planet\u201d and seemingly invincible, tried to break journeyman Kevin McBride\u2019s arm a time or two last night.<\/p>\n
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Tyson ripped open McBride\u2019s left eye with a deliberately vicious head butt. And when neither tactic could gain him an advantage, Tyson knew the outcome, probably before anybody else. Perhaps because he couldn\u2019t get his teeth near the ears of his 6-foot-6 opponent, Tyson sat on his stool at the end of the sixth round and simply quit.<\/p>\n
No mas, no more. There were no extenuating circumstances, no excuses, no injured knee. In fact, Tyson fought with more energy, more skill and more determination than he had displayed in three or four years.<\/p>\n
He moved his head, threw those once-lethal left hooks and uppercuts, came out at the start of each round firing for at least the first 30 seconds. And he still got pushed around by McBride. Tyson could barely get to his feet after a push put his butt on the canvas after a fearsome beating at the end of the sixth round.<\/p>\n
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You could say we should have seen this coming for a while, since he\u2019d already lost to another journeyman named Gary Williams or Bernie Williams or Danny Williams or some such. But he had the bad knee and he hadn\u2019t trained properly, blah, blah, blah. This is a different deal. A rugged man with height and girth, even though not much in the way of dazzle, put Tyson out of his misery last night.<\/p>\n
Tyson confirmed after the fight what some folks in the game have known for years. \u201cI just don\u2019t have this in my heart anymore,\u201d he told reporter Jim Gray in the ring. \u201cI\u2019m just fighting to take care of my bills. I don\u2019t have the ferocity. I\u2019m not an animal anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
And when Gray asked if this would be Tyson\u2019s last fight, the former champ said: \u201cMost likely I\u2019m not going to. I\u2019m not going to disrespect the sport anymore by losing to this caliber of fighter. I just don\u2019t have any desire to keep doing this. I\u2019m just sorry to disappoint the people of this city. I wish they could get their money back some kind of way.\u201d<\/p>\n
They don\u2019t need their money back. It was worth every dollar, whether spent at the arena or at home via pay-per-view. It was six rounds of nonstop heavyweight action. Even the pushing and shoving and clinching were compelling. It wasn\u2019t vintage Tyson, but he hasn\u2019t been vintage for some time. He couldn\u2019t finish. He would land a blast of a punch, then the big moose would just wrap up Tyson like a birthday present. Between that and literally leaning his 271 pounds on Tyson, who weighed 233, McBride just wore Tyson out.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s when Tyson went first to the swinging elbow, then to the arm-break, then to swinging his head like a battering ram, into the side of McBride\u2019s face. You just knew that if McBride could ignore the blood streaming from the cut, which fortunately for him was underneath and on the side of his eye, he could finish Tyson.<\/p>\n
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In what amounted to an admission of intentionally resorting to street thuggery in the ring once again, Tyson said he was \u201ca little desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n
McBride, remarkably unfazed, said: \u201cThat\u2019s the rough tactics of boxing. But I\u2019m a bigger, stronger man. I\u2019m just coming into my prime. I\u2019ve got a lot more to offer boxing now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyson actually congratulated McBride, and McBride said to Tyson\u2019s face: \u201cMike, you\u2019re a legend. I appreciate the fight. God bless.\u201d<\/p>\n
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