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| Danny Williams News: I hope mum's watching |
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 DANNY WILLIAMS plans to be the proudest mummy’s boy on the planet when he fights Mike Tyson here tonight.
The Brixton Bomber’s mum Beverley will be ringside for the first time in his 34-fight career as he bids to upset the odds at the Freedom Hall.
And joining Bev and dad Augustine, will be Williams’ partner Zoe who has only ever been to one of his bouts before.
Williams, 31, drove to Louisville airport to pick up his parents unaware his partner and two kids Nibia, five, and six-week-old Mellia were on the same flight.
He said: “Dad has been to every one of my fights but I can’t believe my mum will be watching me live for the first time. It’s incredible she’s here.
“I’m sure my mum will say a few prayers for me. I just hope she will be able to open her eyes and watch me beat Tyson.
“Usually, she can’t even watch me on TV. She has to go upstairs and wait until my bout is finished. When she knows I’m OK, she’ll look at a recording.
“I was staggered when my dad called and said mum was coming over as well. It is such a boost for me that both my parents will be ringside.”
Williams’ trainer Jim McDonnell said: “Danny knew his mum and dad were flying over but he was totally unaware his family were coming as well.
“It has been a major surprise for him, although I think it must be a bit scary for his mum at the thought of sitting ringside.
“As far as I know Zoe has only ever been to one of Danny’s fights and that was a low-key affair at York Hall in London.”
Williams has a reputation for cracking under pressure — a trait that has undermined his un- doubted boxing skills and prevented him reaching the very top.
But the Londoner has trained in the US for the last five weeks and rarely looked so relaxed.
He added: “The thought of losing breaks me up and that is why I have put so much needless pressure on myself in the past.
“But this time I’m supposed to be just another English bum, a loser imported to fatten up Tyson’s record. But that’s not how it will be.
“Tyson’s best chance of beating me is within the first four rounds. After that I’ll be able to do what I like with him.
“But it doesn’t mean I have to be defensive. In fact, I intend to let him feel my power early and show him no respect.
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| Danny Williams News: Boxing: Williams feels the menace of Tyson |
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This story comes from the UK. It's already the 30th their.
Ever since Danny Williams knew he had to fight Mike Tyson in the Freedom Hall here tonight and, just maybe, redeem a career that has been crippled by the fear of failure, he has delved into the most vital question of his life. It asks what happens to your mind - and your heart - when you look across the ring and see the glowering, tattooed face of the man who trademarked intimidation.
In his case, he swears it means a lifting of all pressure, a wonderful release. He has nothing to lose except those misgivings which in the past have brought tears to his eyes and sent him running out of the pre-fight dressing-room and into the street, sick with apprehension.
He says: "Tyson's people have handpicked me as a knock-over opponent. They couldn't have given me a greater gift. All the pressure has lifted. I've felt good since the moment I stepped off the plane here in the home town of my idol Muhammad Ali. I will refuse to be bullied."
Williams, a 31-year-old from Brixton, watched in awe when Tyson invaded his own parish before the fight with Julius Francis four years ago. He saw his neighbours rise up to greet not a convicted rapist whose presence in England had created huge controversy and debate in Parliament but a hero of the ethnic minority, part warrior, part martyr.
"It was an incredible thing to see, and I'll never forget it," Williams was saying earlier this week. "But what my people in Brixton were celebrating, I knew it then and I know it even more now, was an image of somebody, not the reality. They had a certain idea of him that hadn't been true for a long time. Even then Tyson was so far past his best he was more an opportunity than a threat to anyone who could take their chance."
So far, so promising for Williams, who has been described by Tyson's trainer, Freddie Roach, as "maybe not the bravest fighter out there". However, there was always going to be that moment when Danny Williams met Mike Tyson, not as a fighter to be dissected on film, but a real presence, up close and calling up his last reserves of menace, and when it happened students of the man from south London felt more than a twitch of familiar concern.
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| Danny Williams News: WILLIAMS CAN MAKE A NAME FOR HIMSELF |
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Danny Williams' reward for shocking Mike Tyson in Louisville on Friday night will be a prize he can live off for the rest of his life.
Williams will be transformed from a decent domestic heavyweight into a worldwide star if he becomes the fourth man to beat the former undisputed champion.
And he will join an exclusive band of British fighters whose fortunes changed after pulling off sensational victories a long way from home.
Fellow Londoner John H Stracey's name will be forever linked with his famous world title win over future Hall of Famer Jose Napoles in Mexico City in 1975.
Likewise Lloyd Honeyghan exploded out of mediocrity to snatch the world title from the seemingly invincible American Donald Curry in Atlantic City in 1986.
Stracey now runs a successful after-dinning speaking business and believes Williams would always be in high demand if he comes home with a Tyson victory under his belt.
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| Danny Williams News: Williams has an outside shot |
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DANNY Williams to beat Mike Tyson - surely it’s a joke? It would be like Inverness Caledonian Thistle toppling Celtic in the Scottish Cup. Now there’s food for thought ...
It seems incredible to any sensible student of boxing that Williams is in any way fancied to beat Tyson. Some people have put money on him to do so - are they mad?
It is a sign more of Tyson’s decline than Williams’s improvement that the Londoner is quoted as low as 6-1 by some bookmakers to beat Tyson next Friday in the Freedom Hall in Louisville.
To put those odds in context, James ‘Buster’ Douglas was a 42-1 shot to beat Tyson when he caused the biggest upset in heavyweight history in 1990.
But surely, come on, no kidding, please - Williams to beat Iron Mike? Yet all the signs from Williams’ camp last week were that the former British and Commonwealth champion from Brixton is confident of creating the biggest upset in British heavyweight history since Oliver McCall toppled Lennox Lewis at Wembley in 1995.
Precisely what Williams has in his hands is one chance at the big time, one shot at glory, one opportunity to become a "name" fighter capable of earning megabucks for his next few fights. The reputed £150,000 he has been paid for this fight will pale into insignificance if he can become the man who beat The Baddest Man.
Such rewards will surely be his destiny should he beat Tyson, an outcome which in all probability would end the career of the most controversial figure in sport in recent decades.
Can Williams do it? Going by history, he has no chance. A comparison between the two fighters’ records shows one thing - there is no comparison. In 19 years as a professional, Tyson has been in with the biggest names in heavyweight boxing since he was a teenager, while Williams has never faced, far less beaten, a fighter of genuine world class.
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| Danny Williams News: Boxing: 'Too often I have left my fight in the gym and let the pressure get to m |
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This is also a column about Mike Tyson
Take a deep breath. Danny Williams of Brixton is fighting Mike Tyson of Infamy in one of the few places that will give the bad man a licence to box, Louisville, Kentucky, the hometown of The Greatest, Muhammad Ali.
For added amusement, Ali's daughter, Laila, will be throwing punches on the same bill, but that is another story.
At first glance Tyson-Williams seems something of a mismatch. Tyson, the youngest heavyweight champion of the world at 20, was invincible before he became infamous alongside his diamond-encrusted entourage, his jail sentence and his ear-biting against Evander Holyfield among other chronicled episodes of misbehaviour. He is now 38 but the sledgehammer still resides in his gloves.
Williams is a decent domestic fighter whose record of under-achievement includes recent defeats by fellow Britons Michael Sprott and Julius Francis, who has tasted the Tyson leather, as well as Sinan Samil Sam, who knocked him down three times. Williams has also claimed 31 victims with 26 of them knocked out.
Williams has a chance even though the bookmakers make Tyson a 1-14 shot and have his opponent at 11-2, according to his manager Frank Warren, who stretches the imagination with the profound opinion that "Williams will shock the world where the man who shocked the world, Ali, was born".
Optimism in the Williams camp springs from their man's sudden obsession with fitness in body and, more importantly in his case, within his fragile mind. His own nerves have sometimes been his undoing.
He admits: "Too often I have left my fight in the gym and let the pressure get to me. This is different. I have trained 10 times harder than ever before. I am going to keep my discipline, stick to my plan. That has not always been the case. Everyone knows I have the potential. Now I must show the real Danny Williams. If I retired now I would feel like I have done nothing. My career is incomplete.
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