Tyson In Retirement: What Could Have Been?

[StarshipTrooper]

I remember in the mid-80s when Mike Tyson was in his prime and he'd be watching at ringside some fight unrelated to any he had coming up. Invariably the HBO crew would get him to come up and comment on the fight they were watching. I remember thinking to myself while talked about the fight that he'd make a damn good boxing analyst for HBO or Showtime. He was articulate, knowledgable, he could pull bits of boxing history out and show how it was relavent to the fight they were watching, and he analized the action in the ring, what the fighters were doing right and wrong, better than any fighter I'd heard talk. He could have been a fixture on these broadcasts after his career ended but isn't.

Poet

[Brassangel]

Given what knowledge he seems to have about the sport's history, he may have made a good commentator. I suppose someone should get to him and present such an idea (after he serves his upcoming sentance, of course). Maybe then he'll get his life back on track.

[-CANE-]

I voted for commentator but could have also made a great trainer with his knowledge of the game.

[Mike Tyson77]

He was a commentator for Hasim Rahmans last title defense.



He could still be a commentator or a trainer after his sentence.

[MrOctober]

I think had Cus D'amato had lived a few years longer that things would have been much different.

I hate to say it, but Tysons downfall started with Robin Givens. If that skank isin't a distraction I don't know what the hell is. She drove the wedge between Tyson/Bill Caton and Kevin Rooney. If anyone knew how to keep Tyson in check it was Rooney. Then you had the Grand Leech himself Don King....need I say more.

[QueensburyRules]

I remember in the mid-80s when Mike Tyson was in his prime and he'd be watching at ringside some fight unrelated to any he had coming up. Invariably the HBO crew would get him to come up and comment on the fight they were watching. I remember thinking to myself while talked about the fight that he'd make a damn good boxing analyst for HBO or Showtime. He was articulate, knowledgable, he could pull bits of boxing history out and show how it was relavent to the fight they were watching, and he analized the action in the ring, what the fighters were doing right and wrong, better than any fighter I'd heard talk. He could have been a fixture on these broadcasts after his career ended but isn't.

Poet

- -Mike more knowledgable and boxing articulate than any announcer who ever lived, even as a kid.

Since his childhood social and environmental upbringing served to activate an hereditary propensity of mental illness, no , he continued to make a mess of his life.

Seems like his marihuana therapy has done wonders to stabilize him and his finances, so possibly a broadcaster might roll the dice with him, but he won't be reading from the corporate script and he don't even need the job anymore.

Regrettably boxing been luring him back into its cruel embrace, so wish him the best while being apprehensive as to his future.