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Ear fight. When Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield

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Commentator Sky Ian Darke was in Las Vegas in June 1997, unaware that Mike Tyson was on the edge of the destruction of his reputation forever. Below is his journal of events, which ended with the most infamous disqualification in the history of boxing.

Sunday, June 22, 1997

I don’t remember who said Las Vegas makes Blackpool look like Venice, but they were not wrong. After 14 hours of flying Glenn McCrora and I came to discover that Elderly Sin City in the desert fell to the novel depth without taste. Our hotel opposite MGM had an electric chair, where you can pay 2 USD for “fried live”. The loud mountain queue is located just outside the bedroom window. Try and don’t go as usual to get to the west coast, fighting for sleep as overdue as possible. You still wake up in the middle of the night and fall asleep in the afternoons.

Monday, June 23, 1997

Mission Impossible – get one interview with Mike Tyson. Over the years, repeated efforts to go through the official channels have proved hopeless. The only hope is him when Golden Gloves Gym leaves after training. We come to find closed doors and ordinary gloomy difficult to guard. Rory Holloway, co -author of Tyson, Rory Holloway. We ask if Mike will speak on British television because he has so many fans there. GROVELING helps – does it do it? “I don’t ask him,” Holloway stops.

“But you have no objection if it’s okay?”

“To you, what you do. I can’t stop him.”

You are gathering that seeing Tyson is like an attempt to organize an audience with the Pope. In the end it emerges, it looks gloomy. “Hi Mike, I wonder if you could spend three minutes on Sky Sports from Great Britain?”

“I don’t know about three minutes,” he will pay back. You think we asked him to surpass nine-o’clock-new. And that’s how we throw the camera. “Interview” is monosylbical. The truth is that Tyson hates the media. He is usually contemptuous and disregarded even the most reasonable and polite investigation. The camp here has an impenetrable mentality – some may say that persecution.

Tuesday, June 24, 1997

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield They are completely different animals in the same jungle. Evander is helpful and available as Mike Nie -SPRING. Holyfield works in the ring set up in a media tent and does not leave until everyone who wants to talk to him did not do it. The man is a pure class, it is clear that Tyson still does not keep any terror for him. Indeed, many of us wonder if this is the opposite after the beating Tyson took care of the first fight.

Wednesday, June 25, 1997

Press conferences are one of the huge sets of every week of fighting in Vegas. There are 1,500 media in the city. Mike Marley, director of Don King advertising, says that for all the accreditation of 10 was reversed. The Russians are here, and broadcasters in three Chinese dialects. As usual, Glen McCrory and Bob Mee have a lottery about how long Don King will take to present everyone. The record is 53 minutes on Akinwande-Welch. This time Don holds it up to 18 minutes. According to his standards, this is almost “without comment”. The most significant most significant stock exchanges between Christa Martin, a women’s boxing star and the only women who defeated her, Andrea Deshong. Deshong: “I will give you a boxing lesson.” Martin: “It’s nice to see you in a dress, you looked like women for the first time. I’m going to run shoes to chase you faster than you’ve ever been prosecuted … except your girlfriend!” There are more. Tyson bored and placid Holyfield are tamed in comparison. Then the coach of Lennox Lewis, Manna Steward, says that Holyfield seems “too relaxed and the edges are missing.” Eddie Futch says that after seeing the warriors this week he changed his mind and chooses Tyson.

Thursday, June 26, 1997

Weighting. This fight is so great that ESPN, All Sports Channel, show it live. Tyson is his lightest than prison- but he looks older, his skin looks gloss. Holyfield is his heaviest in history. It seems that Tyson suggests his look when they pose for photos, significant? Later, the Nevada Commission is taking place in front of the world media to hear the protest of the Tyson camp about the judge Mitch Halpern. Can you imagine how the British boxing control council does it? Manager Tyson, John Horne, believes that Tyson will be “physiologically affected”, having the same man who stopped him last time. Is this a tip on the mental state of Tyson? If he is worried about the same director, how does he feel about the same opponent? Elderly Tyson would only worry if the judge could not count until 10. Quite rightly, the commission throws out protests 4-1.

Friday, June 27, 1997

Christmas Eve. I am not sleeping at the news that Halpern has subsided. The Tyson camp has its own, Halpern was placed in an impossible position in which he would certainly have to subconsciously bend back to be candid to Tyson. Mills Lane is developed to “get”. He couldn’t know much what central role he was supposed to play in the drama. The survey of the best American boxing writers gives Tyson only six votes for 23. However, bookmakers still have Holyfield at the age of 13-8 years. This may be the first registered instance of generosity from the layers of Vegas opportunities.

Saturday, June 28, 1997

Fight. Boxing ability to dream of some novel sensational endings is inexhaustible. Both Glenn McCrora and I are terrified by the outraged behavior of Tyson. The words “coward” and “Łobuz” come to mind. Who would have thought Tyson would lean to make a “real offer” for a “real meal”? There is no doubt that Holyfield intends to defeat him, Tyson knew about it- so he gave up, hoping that he would be able to demand an ambiguous result. In my opinion, he threw out all claims that can be considered one of the best massive in history. As Glenn said on the air: “Cus d’Amato would turn in the grave.” Then we are caught in Stampeded to escape the reported shootings at the MGM casino. What a night!

Sunday, June 29, 1997

American recipients had a field night: “Bite of the century”, “Fight of the Ear” and so on. We’re going home at dawn. Sky Sports is again on Monday evening … at York Hall, Bethnal Green. It’s a long way from Vegas …

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The first 10 opponents of future heavyweight masters

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The first 10 opponents of future heavyweight masters Boxing news






















  1. Lionel Butler
    The earnest butler passed from losing to the debutant of Riddick Bowe in 1989 to secure the WBC eliminator with Lennox Lewis in 1995. Finally, he gave up in 2010 with a record of 32-17-1 (25).
  2. Howard Smith
    Eight years before getting the WBA belt in 1980, Mike Weaver lost to Smith during his first two professional trips. Howard also fought Earnie Shavers, and its last part was decent 17-2 (10).
  3. Tunney Hunsaker
    Six months before losing more than six rounds with Cassius Clay, Hunsaker survived the ninth round with the former contender for the title of the world, Tom McNeley. He will retire in 1962 with an estimated record of 19-15-1 (10).
  4. James Broad
    The talented man Greensboro had 2-0 when he knocked out the future of WBA Titlist, James “Bonecrusher” Smith in his debut in 1981. He retired in 1993 in 23-10 (15).
  5. Al Malcolm
    Malcolm, who lost to Lennox Lewis in 1989, was a solid professional who could not cross him at the top of the national level. Although he won the Midlands Area Pas, he shortened Gary Mason, Hughroy Currie, Noel Quarless and Michael Murray.
  6. Don Waldham
    Troster in the third round with George Foreman in 1969, Waldham managed to pass longer than many future enemies of Slugger in ponderous weight. Waldham, 5-5-2, did not fight again.
  7. Woody Goss
    Goss was detained in the round of opening by Joe Frazier in 1965, when he abandoned his future king. He got involved in two fights with a noteworthy difficult, Jacek O’halloran before he left in 1969 with a record of 6-5-2 (3).
  8. Lupe Guerra
    The debut opponent of Frank Bruno mixed with a decent company. Guerra, flattened by Substantial Frank in one round in 1982, also fought (and was hit by) Leon Spinks, Tony Tucker and Jerry Quarry.
  9. Rodell Dupree
    After staying four rounds with Larry Holmes in 1973, Dupree was detained by some fighters who would unsuccessfully challenge Larry when he was a champion, like Renaldo Snipes and Randall “Tex” Cobb.
  10. Hector Mercedes
    Mercedes was not much better after he was steam by youthful Mike Tyson in 1985. The only other significant name on his album 1-10 is Paul Poirier, who stopped the Mercedes in two parts.

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Mike Milligan, a man behind the scenes of one of the most colorful eras in British boxing

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Every solemn boxing ephemeral collector has repeatedly seen the name Mike Milligan on British programs and hands in the 1930s to the 1960s. At various times he was a professional boxer, trainer, second, whip and matchmaker. Although his own rings career was miniature and unusual, he was present in other roles for many vast British fights.

Born in London East End in 1908, his Boxing news The obituary states that his real name is Mark Vezan. However, I cannot find a list of this name in official birth or death indexes, so it’s probably wrong. At the age of 15, Milligan joined the Victoria Working Boys boys club in Whitechapel, where the British and European master Harry Mason had his first boxing lessons. At the age of 16, Mike changed his professional, debuting in the notable Premierland, where he won the prince’s sum of 17s 6d (88 pence) for six -handed. He had a few more fights before he turned to the training and made contact with Kingpin Emerging End End Kingpin, Johnny Sharpe. Johnny set Mike for his gym “45” on Mile End Road. Two early Milligan students are Moe Moss and Kid Farlo, both of which he gave Sharpe to manage and became leading professionals. Others Mike trained at 45 gyms, to Jack Hyams, Archie Sexton, Laurie and Sid Raiteri and Billy Mack.

After a few years with Sharpe Milligan, he went to work for Joe Morris, a manager of such stars as Teddy Baldock and Dick Corbett. Mike still worked for Morris in 1934, when Joe, supported by a petite syndicate, bought the lease of an vintage church on Devonshire, Hackney Street, transforming him into a boxing room. The Devonshire club, as it was called, coped with us, prompting Morris and other investors to sell his future promotional Supremo (but then little known) Jacek Solomon. Milligan stopped at Devonshire and worked as an assistant to “home” and Jacek until 1940, when this place was blurred by the Luftwaffe bomb.

In this miniature time, Devonshire became the leading petite hall of the eastern London. It was during this spell that Mike, who had a gift to detect talent, discovered his greatest discovery of his fists. Milligan took the future British featherlight champion Eric Boon [pictured above right with Milligan] Under his wing after he saw him as a 15-year-old on the account of the Devonshire club. Mike trained Eric and was a key impact in the early years, traveling with him wherever he fought.

In 1940, Milligan joined the army as a shooter in Ra, and also served as an instructor entitled He was annulled from the army after an injury at the site of the weapon and spent six months in the hospital. From there, he returned to work as a whip for Salomons and many other promoters, and became a lasting element of what is on a wonderful pregnancy on the shelf, a place outside, located in a crumbling brick and wavy iron walls. From 1951, Mike worked as a match in places such as Mil End Arena and Epsom Baths, and for many years he was a member of the South Council of the region.

“A lively personality with a pleasant way and enthusiasm for boxing, which radiates positively from him,” was like one newspaper described him in 1940. And this enthusiasm for the game has never decreased. “Mike worked as a bookmaker, but boxing was his life,” noted the obituary in boxes in 1964. “He ate, drank and slept boxing … he rarely left the program, vast or petite.”

The sudden death of Milligan, at the age of 56, shocked the British brotherhood of the fight. Many leading boxing characters – among them Salomons, Sharpe and Benny Huntman – were at his funeral in Rainham in Essex to respect a man who left his marks behind the scenes in one of the most colorful eras of British boxing.

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On this day: an everlasted kalambay Sumbay hand Iran Barkley boxing lesson

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Axis Kalambay at PTS 15 Iran Barkley
Octabar 23 1987; Palazzo dello Sport, Livorno, Italy
Kalambay’s Sumbay is often overlooked when historians call the best medium weights in the era of post-Marvin Hagler. But when someone thinks that Kalambay defeated Herola Graham (twice), Mike McCallum, Steve Collins and Iran Barkley, it is clear that he should not. The Italian silky idol was Muhammad Ali and against the free, gritty and strenuous (and let’s not forget, very good) Barkley, Kalambay showed his extensive repertoire in the last fight for the title WBA Middle Wweight to plan 15 rounds. More educational than exhilarating, Kalambay shows exactly why it was very arduous to beat to raise a free belt.

Do you know? The title of WBA was deprived of Hagler after he signed a contract for the fight with Sugar Ray Leonard instead of a compulsory pretender, Herol Graham. Kalambay upset Graham in the fight for the title of EBU – which was a crazy fight for a “bomber”, in retrospect – to get a shot in a free crown.

Watch out for: The operate of a left stabbaya is arduous to determine. At the end of the fight, Barkley is bruised, bloody and well beaten.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmmykev8GSE

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