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According to a media column for the New York Daily News, Mike Tyson will work as a ringside analyst for the international broadcast of the Hasim Rahman-Oleg Maskaev fight on Aug. 12 for a piece of the heavyweight title.
Tyson as a commentator creates some fascinating possibilities. It's safe to assume that executive producers will be watching carefully to see whether he could succeed on a major pay-per-view card. Just his name draws a crowd.
When the mood is right, Tyson is knowledgeable, offbeat and funny. The former heavyweight champ, a Valley resident, couldn't beat Lennox Lewis in the ring. As an analyst, however, Lewis sometimes sounds as if he is talking about his favorite pastime, chess. On the broadcast side of the ropes, it might be Tyson in a knockout.
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| TysonTalk: Exclusive Interview with Tom Patti. Q&A |
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By Craig Gibson
Firstly Tom, thanks for taking time out to do this interview for Tysontalk
For those people who may not know you, can you tell us a little bit about how you first come to meet Mike?
Craig, before I start, I’d like to thank all of your members and the fans of this website for their continued interest in Mike and for asking me to do this interview. Since this is a pretty friendly site, I’ll take the time and answer your questions fully instead of being short. I’ll hope to give you some interesting insight with my perspective on Mike as I’ve known him and been closely involved in his life on and off over the past 25 years. So here we go…
Back in 1982 I moved to Catskill NY to live and train with Cus D’Amato. Cus had trained my father when he was a boy and now I had the opportunity to do so. Several years later, Mike and I were the last two fighters living and training under the tutelage and watchful eyes of Cus.
You were a successful boxer in your own right, how come you didn’t pursue it as a career?
Once Cus had passed away, I didn’t trust anyone else to guide my career. I had won several amateur titles, but I was far from “red hot” say out of the Olympics. I also had numerous nose operations that never resolved the occurrence of complications. I had an operation, then a car crash that destroyed the operation. At this point, I carefully decided to move on with my life seeking new challenges. As Cus would say, “not all of my fighters will become champions, but if they apply the same principles in life as they did in this sport, they can become successful in any goal”.
During the after dinner tours you were introduced as having crossed over to act in Hollywood, which films have you been in?
For almost 20 years now I’ve been involved in the entertainment business. I starred in a 10 hour TV mini-series called “Oceano”, appeared in Johnny Be Good, Homeboy, Hell’s kitchen, Hollywood Confidential and a few others. I’ve sold a screen play, written, directed, produced and performed live theatre. It’s a fantastic career challenge that I consider a hobby. A terribly thankless profession, but a great hobby! Luckily along the way I’ve gotten involved in other business interests as well.
To see the rest of this interview (click 'Read More' below).
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Source: Fox News
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson died today. He was 71 years old. Earlier tonight, I spoke with another boxing champ, Mike Tyson.
Mike, it's a sad time for boxing, isn't it, with Floyd Patterson's passing.
MIKE TYSON, FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CHAMPION: Oh, man. That was just — that was a horrific moment in time. I've learned a lot about Floyd Patterson being under the tutelage of Cus D'Amato, who also trained Floyd Patterson. And he had nothing but admiration for Floyd Patterson.
VAN SUSTEREN: What was Floyd Patterson like?
TYSON: Well, I met Floyd on a few occasions, but he's always been very dignified and respectful gentleman. Throughout his whole career, he was known to be shy, but he was a very spectacular puncher, as well as fast, double-punchings with both hands. And was Cus's pride and joy. He was the youngest heavyweight champion at 21 years old, and then again four years later he became heavyweight champion again. You know, only heavyweight to regain the champion at that particular time, until Ali came. He was a remarkable fighter.
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| TysonTalk: Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson passes away |
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| Fan Talk: Another Look at Sugar Ray’s Victory Over Hagler and Mike Tysons Place in Histo |
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 Source: boxingscene.com
By Brent Matteo Alderson
Today it’s trendy to take a look at past events and put another spin on them, which often times are in direct contrast with the original perspectives. The two contemporary revisionist perspectives that I’m in complete disagreement with are that 1) Mike Tyson wasn’t a great heavyweight and 2) Sugar Ray Leonard’s victory over Marvin Hagler wasn’t astonishing due to the fact that all the factors revolving around the fight were in Leonard’s favor.
Another
qualm I have about a recent perception of boxing history is that it
seems of late that a lot of writers have drastically diminished Mike
Tyson’s place in history by describing him as an over-rated heavyweight
that used his reputation to decimate a sub-par group of
heavyweights. They point to his losses to Buster Douglas, Lennox
Lewis, and Evander Holyfield to validate this belief and they also
downgrade the length of his reign as well as the quality of his
opposition. Let’s get a couple of things straight.
First the Mike Tyson that fought Lewis and Holyfield was a shell of his
former self. Tyson hasn’t been remotely close to being a prime
Tyson since before his incarceration in 1991 and counting those wins
against Iron Mike would be like counting Sugar Ray Leonard’s loss to
Terry Norris or Wilfredo Benitez’s loss to Matthew Hilton. Ray
was only 34 at the time of the Norris fight and Benitez was still in
his twenties. So do you consider Matthew Hilton and Terry
Norris to be greater than Sugar Ray and Benitez? No, of course
not because even though age is often times the primary factor that
diminishes fighters abilities, sometimes their skill level just fades
away whether it’s from drinking, women, or just plain fate.
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Former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson (who just as Mike Tyson fought under the management of Cus D'Amato) has passed away at age 71. He died at his home in New Paltz, NY. When Rocky Marciano retired, Patterson won the vacant title from Archie Moore. He was just 21 at the time, the youngest ever to claim the heavyweight throne until Mike Tyson took that record.
Patterson was the first man to ever regain the heavyweight title after losing it and amassed a career mark of 55-8-1, 40 KOs. He later became chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission. In his later years, Patterson suffered from Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer. He had Alzheimer's disease for about eight years and prostate cancer, nephew Sherman Patterson said.
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