tyson-lewis

[TheShrimp]

First of all, for discussion and picks about the fight, check "off the wall" later this week. Someone showed up in the Rahman-Holyfield thread last week saying he's been here 2 years and didn't even know off the wall existed or something like that.

The main thing I want to address about the fight in this thread is all the comments I've been hearing since the fight was scheduled that people just want to tune in to "see what's Tyson is going to do this time."

I, for one, couldn't be futher from that line of thinking. I want to see a great fight. I want to see Lewis throwing that jab to keep Tyson at distance and I want to see Tyson slipping those jabs like he used to be able to do to get inside and do some harm.

In short, I want to see the late 80's Tyson back in form fighting the professional Lewis. I'd love to see Lewis get into that "slug it out" mode with Tyson that he sometimes does.

Can't remember the last time I was so excited for a fight (it was looking like I wouldn't be able to watch it, but that has been resolved). I don't know if I've been this excited for ANY sporting in my life (maybe Pats-Bears in the superbowl when I was a kid). I love the walk-in's in fights like these with the camera right on their faces when they're trying to look tough, but must have a billion thoughts and doubts running through their mind. It's not like Ali-Frazier at the garden must have been but there's just something about Tyson, man.

Anyway, I'm really hoping that Tyson comes in to fight prepared to try to win it like a fighter.

Anyone else getting psyched for this one?

TheShrimp

 

[loophole]

i am a lifelong boxing fan, especially the heavyweight division. i participated in 12 years of amateur boxing and enjoyed every minute. i spent many evenings watching interservice bouts featuring the likes of kenny norton and others of similiar ilk. i was privileged to see most of ali's fights, as well as his contemporaries frazier and foreman in their primes. i relished the humor and depth of such personalities as ali and randy "tex" cobb, both of whom i have met. saw sugar ray leanard fight in miami. all in all, boxing greatly enriched my youth and young adulthood.

i also saw mike tyson when he was 18-19 years old under the tutilege of cus d'amato and considered him to be the greatest natural talent i has ever seen, including ali. i say all of this to preface telling you that today i would not walk across the street to see tyson fight for free. i do not care to see him fight any more than i would care to see a team of death row inmates released to play the green bay packers. i believe that the fact that he is still allowed to compete in professional boxing is a plain statement about the sorry state to which the sport has descended. anyway, there is no chance that this will be a good fight. tyson's skills have been so eroded by his choices that he is a shadow of his younger self. if he wins tonight it will be because lewis tanks. if lewis starts beating tyson he will almost assuredly foul his way to a dq. it will be light years awy from boxing at its best.


i have come up with an alternatiive though. since my neck surgery, i have been cleared by my doctor to go to this saturday's stanley cup game in raleigh. because i had to assure him i could do so without joustling my neck around ( i'm wearing this dumbass collar) my friends and i have made elaborate preparations. we have luxury box tickets and a limo that will pick us up at my home and drop in front of a gate that is about 20 steps from the front door of the box. the city of raleigh is in a frenzy anticipating this game of historical proportions for the home team and this neck of the woods. it should be a hoot.


now THAT i'm getting psyched about!

 

[TheShrimp]

I hear you loophoole.

I DOUBT that this will be a good fight.

I'm HOPING it will. I'm younger than you and have not witnessed in my day a real battle between two great heavyweights (what? Bowe-Holyfield? Lewis-Briggs?). Now, Tyson may not be a great heavyweight, but he WAS at one time and I'm really hoping that someone close to that fighter shows up for this. Unless I'm overlooking something, there really hasn't been a heavyweight fight this big since the 1970's.

Of course you're psyched for a Hockey game in your backyard, but COME ON, the Carolina Hurricanes in game 3 of a Stanley cup they're going to get crushed in. Not to burst your bubble, but it's hardly a blip on the radar screen, dude. AND, you're watching it from the wine and cheese section.

Hope the neck gets better.

TheShrimp

 

[wareagle]

Shrimp and Loophole i agree with both of your points.

I myself am attending the fight and i just hope to see a good fight.
If the fight goes the distance and their is any question who won i think Tyson will prevail to create contraversy. We all know that where Mike is their is contraversy. Does tyson have the stamina to go the distance? Will mike fight lennox or eat him? Will mike box or will he hug and avoid lewis?

I am going not only to see a fight , but also to see the big wigs and famous people who will be in attendance.

If anyone here is attending and needs any help regarding memphis drop me an email and i would be glad to help you out

 

[taoist]

Wareagle,

Have you seen any bargain basement ticket prices??? I know that the Pyramid is far from sold out.... Let me know if you hear of anything....

 

[wareagle]

Tao there are tickets left. However i haven't seen the prices dropping, YET. The tix will only go down the day of the fight. the tyson and lewis camp bought so many tickets,not to mention all the other brokers, that they will all but giving them away the night of the fight. i know that nobody wants to come here without a ticket, but there is no doubt about it that these tix will be going for cheap the night of the fight.

 

[taoist]

...i've got a couple of old college buddies that still live in memphis, so i may have to make the trip just to see if i can find a few cheap tickets.

...hell, if not, there's plenty of other chit to do.... :weed: