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How pissed off would you be after spending money to go watch this fight and that was all you got!

Mike Tyson in his prime

Tyson was always destined to be a great boxer. At 16 he competed at the 1982 Junior Olympic Games, where he won Gold!
3 years later he became a profesional and won 26 of his first 28 fights by knock-out, 16 in the first round.

November 22, 1986, Tyson was given his first title fight against Trevor Berbick for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world. Tyson won the title by second round TKO, and at the age of 20 years and 4 months became the youngest heavyweight champion in history!

Tyson followed on and went on a quest to unify the 3 major belts and on August 1 1987 he became the first heavyweight to own all three major belts — WBA, WBC, and IBF — at the same time.

Mike Tyson's NES game

Mike Tyson NES game

James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing

James Buster Douglas Knockout Boxing

Mike Tyson was so popular that he even had a Nintendo Entertainment System game that was not very good.

It all started to go wrong though and Tyson lost a fight to James “Buster” Douglas

Who also had a game released but on the rival Sega MegaDrive/ Genesis and it was much better!  Just look at the difference between the two games!

Desiree Washington

In July 1991 Tyson was jailed for the rape of Desiree Washington.

He was given a sentence of six years and was released in March 1995 after serving three years.

During which time he became a Muslim.

He was released and started fighting again in 1995 regaining his WBC and WBA belts from Britains Frank Bruno and the American Bruce Seldon,  it was after this fight that Tupac Shakur was shot 4 times and died.

Holyfield's ear

He then entered into two fights with Evander Holyfield which resulted in Tyson biting a large part of Holyfields ear off.  The boxing people didn’t like this and suspended Tyson from boxing.

This only lasted 1 year during which time Tyson earned alot of money by punching WWE/WWF Wrestler Shawn Michaels

In 1999 he finally had another boxing match this time with Francois Botha, You would think Tyson would try to stay away from controversy but no…… he tried to break Francois’s arm during the fight!

He then tried to beat up two motorists after a car accident and ended up back in jail for 9 months.

When released he had two fights in the uk against some journeymen boxers then had a fight against similarly troubled Polish boxer Andrzej Gołota, he won in round three after Gołota refused to fight.  The result was later changed to a no contest as Tyson had refused to take a pre-fight drug test and then tested positive for marijuana in a post-fight urine test.  Boxing when stoned!!!!!

Finally in 2002 what every boxing fan wanted was going to happen… Tyson vs Lennox Lewis.

Tyson said ” I want your heart, I want to eat your children” Lewis beat him.

A few years later Tyson filed for bankruptcy. Tyson is said to have squandered nearly $300 million in ring earnings through lavish spending and bad advice.

You can see his house here….

Abandoned Mansion Of Mike Tyson

Abandoned Mansion Of Mike Tyson

More pictures of his abandoned house here. Lavish they were!

Mike Tyson in 2005

He desperately needed some money so fought Danny Williams and Kevin McBride and lost both fights!

He got into trouble again and was arrested for DUI and felony drug possession after he nearly crashed into a police car after leaving a bar.

He was sentenced to 24 hours in jail, 360 hours community service and 3 years probation. Prosecutors had requested a year long jail sentence, but the judge praised Tyson for seeking help with his drug problems.

So it seems that Tyson may finally be getting help…..  but he really should lay off the pies!

Fat Mike Tyson

Tubby Mike Tyson

http://www.news.com.au/st…5-23109,00.html

A RUSSIAN man has been crowned world champion in the novelty sport of chess boxing, a game that requires equal skill at moving pawns and throwing punches.

Mathematics student Nikolai Sazhin, 19, competing under the name “The President” knocked out a 37-year-old German policeman Frank Stoldt, who served as a peacekeeper in Kosovo until recently.

The loser said he was simply too punch-drunk to fend off checkmate.

“I took a lot of body-blows in the fourth round and that affected my concentration. That’s why I made a big mistake in the fifth round: I did not see him coming for my king,” he said.

Berlin is home to the world’s biggest chess boxing club with some 40 members and it is in an old freight station here that the two men settled the matter early yesterday.

The match began over a chess board set up on a low table in the middle of a boxing ring.

Stripped to the waist, wearing towels around their shoulders and headphones playing the lulling sound of a moving train to drown out the baying crowd, the men played for four minutes.
Then off came their reading glasses and on went the gloves and the mouthguards.

For three minutes they beat each other and then, when the bell went, the chess board was back in the ring and they picked up the gentlemanly game where they had left off.

“This is the hard part, you are out of breath but you have to keep your wits about you,” said David Steppeler, a 33-year-old instructor at the local chess boxing club.

“It is especially hard for the one who has to play first. He can easily make a false move, and in chess this is fatal. So in training we toughen people by making them do push-ups between every two chess moves.”

A chess boxing match consists of six rounds of chess and five in the ring but it can also end suddenly in knockout or checkmate.

Alternatively one of the players can be disqualified for taking too long to make his move in the chess rounds or breaking the boxing rules.

The weekend saw two matches apart from the world title bout and some of the competitors might have felt equally at home in a MENSA club meeting. One had a doctorate in biochemistry, another held a degree in political science and two were teachers.

The best in the world of chess boxing score somewhere between 1700 and 2000 points on the ELO chess rating system – putting them on a par with those who perform well in the sport at club level.

Perhaps fittingly, the sport had its beginnings in a comic strip by the French author Enki Bilal, titled Equator Cold that hit shelves in 1992.

The last work in Bilal’s The Nikipol Trilogy features a blood-stained chess boxing battle set in an apocalyptic city in 2034.

In 2003, the young Dutch artist Iepe Rubingh decided to bring it all to life, but with less brutality, and organised the first match.

“But the way we do it is not as dark as it was in the comic strip. For me the thing is to channel your violence, to control it. Hence the marriage between boxing and chess,” said Rubingh, who is the president of the international federation of chess boxing.