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  • Whatever you guys think, statistics speak, Mike Tyson is a household name just like Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson. He was one of the best and nothing can take that away.

  • I kicked Mike Tyson's ass back in 1987..Punch out.. every time i came home from school and beat him...it made me feel like anything in life was possible.

  • Ya I'm mike tython forma heavy weight champ and now i'm nothin but a two-bit loser looking back at my glory days.

  • Damn. We look back out are selfs and realize " i was that person" Still a hard hitter mike.

  • He's actually intelligent...but Buster destroyed him entirely cannot be denied

  • humble and honest

  • Perfect mind to be competitive. At this moment was an example... i will always remember this Tyson, not the other. I love this Tyson.

  • I start to like him.

  • he's the fucken man

  • Garrosh Hellscream

  • @fealmor

    which server are you from? Gorgonnash US.

  • you are that guy Mike, we might have no one HW champion like you yet

  • He is 2 extremes of the spectrum. Such a monster on one end and a sensitive soul on the other

  • just watched the "I'll __ you till you love me!" clip and now this. what a tortured, self-reflective warrior. remember the sin city quote? We'd throw women and money and adulation at him if it were the Roman gladiator days...Well, we did throw all those things at him and they didn't provide him freedom from his demons that imprisoned him. Now it seems like he's finding them on his own, away from the ring. go Mike

  • @dlhawks well said :) i hope he gets his own heaven on earth. or has it until now!

  • <3 Tyson

  • i sincerly hope sand pray that he finds the right path in life. mike is a lot more intelligent than lots of people he just needs to be understood and be treated in a compasstionate way.

  • Mike is the G.O.A.T. - R.I.P. Exodus

  • "I'LL FUCK YOU UNTIL YOU LOVE ME FAGGOT!!"

  • people are always too extreme with Tyson. Haters say he's shit, he's nothing (come on guys, youngest HW champion ever, KO king..) and his fans (I am one) always say he's the best ever, the greatest... etc. I really think he was between the 2 extremes. He was 1 of the best HW ever but he had so much trouble with tall guys (Lewis, Douglas, Holyfield, Ruddock, Tucker, Smith..), his peak, top was so short compared to Louis (25 defenses) or Ali winning 3 time the title, u cant say "best ever".

  • Tyson is my hero.. I feel sorry he had a bad life.. the look in his eyes (when he is in the light purple shirt) he looks hurt like something is just hurting

  • can someone explain this to me .... or maybe i am hearing this incorrectly ,, but he says he "insecure " about performing , fighting ... huh ??? that really doesnt make any sense ,.,, i think its the wrong use of words ...?

  • @rcolon82 he is insecure about how well he performed in the ring. He aims for perfection and if the fight didn't go perfect, it haunts him. Have you ever done something and afterwards thought you didn't do everything as well as you

    SHOULD have?

  • @mattormat1 All the time

  • he talks like a little girl.

  • @newman20072008

    yeah but he fight like 20 lions!

  • TIME TO GET PAID!

  • @bbt604

    BLOW UP LIKE THE WORLD TRADE

  • veeseee128: you are right, Muhammad Ali he is not - he is better than that chump!

  • @cbcbrennan Chump? Muhamad Ali? Hahaha

  • Mike was right. He got beat 5 times. He was an ok fighter. a muhammad ali hell never be.LOL hahahahahaha

  • you may call me crazy but i believe that tyson is extremely intelligent

  • Tyson is a real boxer! 

  • I hope you guys are listening, he fights to win.

    Tyson I love and respect you.

  • Wow, what the hell happened to this guy?  He was so well spoken and articulate!

  • @metarika2 he shouldve left for africa like chappelle did to cool off and reflect.

  • @TKSiate What's surprising is that he came out of jail very calm and humble, the exact opposite of the man that went into jail. Regardless of your feelings on his or any other religion, it seemed to calm him down ... for a while. Then he got that tattoo and went back to his old bizarre self :) Man that tattoo is scary! I think that would freak the hell out of Marylin Manson!

  • best sportsman ever

  • @PKJOHNT3RUN I think sportsman is the wrong word. Fighter maybe

  • wow. thanks for the update charlie rose. this is one of the saddest interview segments i've ever seen. when they play back the footage to tyson today, it's like for a few seconds he remembers being associated with "the best ever", and sees everything he could have been. you can see it in his face. i don't care what others say, i love you iron mike!

  • love u brother mike

  • Mike Tyson is the Man!!!

  • he did'nt take it so well losing to buster. in a way mike is a very sensitive an insecure guy

  • he is a machine when he begins to fight is GAME OVER !!!

  • lol. I love Mike. I think he's mistaken. He's just brutually honest about everytrhing, and I think he's a hell of a lot smarter than people think.

  • we love you iron mike

  • Tyson was funny in The Hangover.

  • Tyson is a real humble man

  • MIki Tayson Ist the best InshALLAH ich werde auh der bester werden Amin ALLAH

  • is there more from this interview?

    a full one?

  • :( but hey

  • More like "Coulda and Shoulda" been the best Hw In History. But fame, Don King stuffed him up. So I think Joe louis deserves the title!

  • I don't know if crazy is the right word but definitely emotionally unstable. He had a lot of inner demons and probably still does.

  • i didnt know he had a lisp....

  • i wish we could've watch the rest of it!

  • the greatest

  • its funny how people are starting to say they are starting to respect mike tyson now, ect.

    in the future "you people" need to gain facts before prejudging people...

  • zeropointprophet the greatest slow cock sucking champion..undisputed

  • hahaaha thats ok guys like you said "we all do dumb shit when where fucked up" niccccccccccccceeee

  • Just as a recent poster stated, I too am really starting to appreciate Tyson, not only as a fighter, but as a man.

    Let's face it, there aren't too many people that could go through his life unaffected.

    i guess I'm less judgemental in my older years.

    Be at peace Mike.

  • he's a legend. the way he ended fights in first round - incredible.

  • I really wanted to see a prime mike tyson fight lennox lewis. ahhh but thats why there's fight night rd. 4

  • Used to really dislike him, until I started to read up on him and his past and his life etc, have alot of respect for him now.

  • For a small moment in time. Iron Mike was was a force like no other in the sport of boxing. For the boxing fans of that time he will always be remembered. Guys would crap themselves before a fight started. All his rage was focus on a small surface area. No one wanted to be on the receiving end of that kind of power.

  • nah Mike Tyson was the greatest...

  • @dabrixtonbomba the greatest water mellon eating champion

  • @zeropointprophet Give ya a dollar if you say it to his face....come on that's a bag of chips.

  • hes a could have been, sadly

  • For all you disrespectful and insecure racist ppl on here. Do you understand that he is the way he is because he grew up on his own with virtually no mother and absolutely no father. His mother died at an earlier age and he was being beaten up by insecure kids like the ones on this board. Life is tuff but his was hard and thats what having a hard life with no one to really guide you does. Let some punk middle class kid go through what he went through and lets see how well you turn out.

  • Dont start that Violin bullshit!!!

  • Or else what?????

    You gonna call me names over the internet?

    I could write whatever I want to.

  • wtf are you talking aboute? whats with this insecure thing???? racists hates race cause they have had problems with eachother in the past. you know what? you are really insecure for calling people disrespectful and insecure racists lol!!!

  • you all know when he fought everyone loved it..when he fought everyone knew what to expect, KNOCKOUT! To my book, he's a LEGEND!!!

  • ali & tyson

  • Tyson wasn't crazy, he had insight into himself whereas most crazy ppl dont.

    Ok, he flipped out a few times, so have i, and so have you.

    Best HW ever.

  • Better than Peter McNeeley?

  • these are the best words i've ever heard being said about this champ of all time.

  • tyson was the kinda guy if he doesnt like u he wont fuck with u he doesnt care how much money he coulda made from doing it...

  • @TigonOrLiger

    I totally agree. Tyson was also very articulate when he expresses himself.

  • @TigonOrLiger i haven't

  • @TigonOrLiger Well, firstly I agree - Tyson wasn't and isn't crazy, in my opinion. But, 'crazy' is also a vague term as what do we really mean by that. Most people actually mean retarded or psychopathic. They have this cliche that if you're crazy you don't know it and you run around naked dribbling.

    Well, that's simply untrue. Look at some of the 'craziest' people in history, take... Hitler for example...

  • @TigonOrLiger ...now, if what Hitler did can't be considered crazy - what can. Yet, he was an incredibly intelligent man with ruthless determination, able to articulate himself and think things through so... there's no 'rules' of crazy. I don't know why people think crazy = unaware.

    Look at... Ted Bundy, chopped up and ate over 30 women for his own pleasure. Again, if that's not... (what is). And yet once again, incredibly rational and intelligent and able to deceive...

  • @TigonOrLiger Now, I am bipolar myself. Diagnosed. And, surely the only true definition of crazy or a logical one would be, somebody with a mental disorder. As that means you have a brain or disorder which makes your brain different in an extreme way, to the mass majority of people.

    So technically I could be called 'crazy' as, although most people just think of bipolar as depression it's not that. It's spouts of mania and depression, which occur sporadically and of their own accord...

  • @TigonOrLiger ...and, again - although most people wouldn't think of calling a bipolar person crazy, as they just see it as emotional - spouts of mania can absolutely produce thoughts and behavior which seem crazed. Mania is like an over-compensation for the depression / lack of stimulance in the brain and thus, it's too far in the other direction which is why you see EGOMANIA beyond belief.

    And, because of this manic self-belief and self-delusion, you can embark on...

  • @TigonOrLiger ...what you may other consider insane or outlandish tasks or ideas for the high of it and pursue goals to ridiculously obsessive lengths. But, I believe it's also this nature of bipolar and ADHD, and other disorders which produce 'genius' and what we see as incredible skill levels.

    I'm mentioning all of this as I personally believe Tyson to be bipolar. Being it myself and being a huge fan of his and having seen every one of his interviews...

  • @TigonOrLiger ...I absolutely believe his 'rants' to be in periods of mania. I mean, just look at the grandiosity in his talk back then and yes he was obviously egging it on for the sake of making fights bigger but you could see he really believed it as well and this is why people feared him and thought he was crazed.

    You see the same in Kanye west now. The grandiose references to themselves, comparing their work to work of gods and thinking they're inhuman etc.

  • @TigonOrLiger ...Then look at his depressive outbursts as well...

    And, I'm aware Robin Givens tried to say he was manic-depressive and I actually do think she was being manipulative and lying BUT ironically, I think she was inadvertently correct too. And I know he got evaluated and they said he's not but, I strongly disagree.

    Everything about Tyson's history, outbursts and persona points to bipolar, it's as obvious as can be to me. As clear cut a case as I've seen anyway.

  • @TigonOrLiger ...But, yeah. I rambled on a bit then - which, I don't think I did too much I'm just saying that for the sake of people who may complain about the amount I've written lmao.

    I wasn't having a go at you by the way, just continuing the discussion - I'm a huge fan of Tyson and think he's the greatest fighter to step foot in a ring. His combination of speed, accuracy and power is unmatched in my opinion, a machine. But yeah, I'd also say he's bipolar. But, I love his interviews too.

  • @TigonOrLiger I also believe it's for this reason he was the greatest fighter ever too. Almost all mental disorders (bipolar, ADHD and Autism especially) produce OBSESSIVE thinking patterns which of course, gear towards perfection.

    And that's what you see in Tyson's style. Almost every punch he threw was perfectly formed, the form of them were so rigid and full-on, never sloppy or loose and his timing was robotic. And as you probably know he's incredibly analytical and obsessive with study too.

  • @TigonOrLiger best high warlord ever?

  • @TigonOrLiger Excuse me but he didn't just "Flip Out", telling someone or losing your temper is flipping out, how many of us have BIT ANOTHER HUMAN'S EAR OFF in their life???? THAT's fucking PSYCHO and he's a fucking loser degnerate that had so much potential and now trying to do the rounds and redeem his sad life. What a disgrace to the human race.

  • @TigonOrLiger .Im sorry when was the last time you bit off someones ear?

  • atlease he knows what he was lol

  • tyson your stay  the best boxer in the world

  • It's amazing to see that 'Mike Tyson' no longer exists, as verified by Mike Tyson.

  • QUE SEXY,,,,,MMMMMM. MIKE TYSON..

  • Mike is a changed man...

  • By 1990 the demons with in took it's toll.

  • I have so much respect for Tyson, man is disturbed yes, but you can see how much he's grown. Watch the documentary "Tyson," I think you all will find a new respect for him to. I think he was under a lot of stress and it caused him to lash out and act irrational.

  • agreed, not everyone in this world is meant to sound like a genius or be one, he was one hell of an entertaining fighter which you dont really see much of atleast he was good at that

  • the hell with u tison i win i fight to win i win i sleep to win stupid

  • Who the fuck are you to say that ? tyson is the best eva! fighter and i great man.

  • i am egyptian u fkn noob i dun live in us and go suk a russian dog's dick k?

  • man you cant spell worth a shit hector.

  • am writing in the dark so i abbreviat the words to quick and who is fkn tison that we are fkn fighting for if u love go love him and stop talkn to one who dont love him

  • i'll fuck you until u love me faggot

  • odd

  • mike tyson, with a stable mind, would have been the best boxer to ever step inside the ring.

  • Look, it happened how it happened. There couldn't have been no other way. His mind WAS stable. You start especially with the moment he won the title. It was maaadness all around him. ANYBODY would've been driven away from mental, emotional, and psychological stability.

    Very few could've handled it the way Tyson did. And THAT gives you an idea of just how crazy that shit was for him to go through...

  • don't forget... he became a celebrity at what? 20?. he became global and he was filthy rich. so.... he had a lot of "hangers-on" feeding him too much ego and maybe overlooking and not criticizing any faults he may have had or were developing.

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  • " he had a lot of 'hangers-on' feeding him too much ego and maybe overlooking and not criticizing any faults he may have had or were developing."

    People. Listen to that shit right there. Your true friends will tell you what you need to know, not what you wanna hear. Most times people get mad when they hear the truth; chase off well-meaning friends. The hanger-ons, they won't say shit for fear of upsetting the apple cart. Whether it's Tyson or Rahman post-Lewis or you.

    GREAT analysis, there.

  • (And that's post-Lewis I, I was referring, too; although I'm glad he got his ass knocked out.)

  • mental, emotional, AND psychological? my god those three things are so similar and yet so very different and THAT is just amazing.

  • Um the best I k ill niggas if I cant win I eat niggas um the best the best um the best I don't have neck but i'll kill you barbecue yo kids and feed them to the people in africa. um the best look at my eye bitch um the best I hate you um the best I kill people for fun money sex yeah I said I kill foe sex um the best. You did not hear me did u .. well um the best best yes the best

  • Im gonna eat your children Im gonna stamp your testicles

  • Interesting to SEE the difference in GREAT Athletes when they were young and in their prime to when they are older, past it and ageing pre-maturley. Nothing lasts forever, but it is SAD to see Tyson fading quicker than nature intended. Contemporaries Lewis, Bruno, Witherspoon, still look quite 'fresh' in their older years.

  • I would like to see the entire interview of the Prime Tyson from back in the day.

  • is he gay? :P

  • hands down one of the best of all time.

  • Definitely not, he was jsut ag reat showman....with an aweful temperament, I would think Lewis would come in the top 3 of all time along with Mohammad Ali and Rocky Marceiano

  • It's interesting that in the 1990 clip, Mike Tyson was talking all about his insecurities, and when he looked back it struck him how confident he was back then. I guess he meant his demeanor.

  • 90s hair style ... lol

  • Looking back.....Hmmmm....

  • Man Prime Tyson nobody would have ever defeated...not Ali, foreman, any of those guys.

  • Man I miss Tyson. Hope I get a chance to meet him sometime.

  • Haha I like Tyson. He's matured well.

  • Haha, love when he says "I'm not that confident anymore" he will always be the best boxer in the world.

  • we love mike, but looking at ur comments about mike tyson all up on his nuts like hes ur god we love saying shit about mike to piss u off lmaooo, get off his nuts bitch

  • Absolute badass!

  • will always love you mike,you are still that man.

  • seriously why are u on this page if u think hes a moron ???? sooo stupid

  • I love this guy. He breaks my heart !! " I look at this guy - He has so much confidence - I am not this guy anymore"

    He achieved everything in Boxing. Nobody could draw a crowd like he did, and for that he is a great.

    Thank you Mike.Boxing is lost without you.

  • wow, mike tyson made an extremely advanced philosophical statement, "we all reach for perfection but we never accomplish it" Leonardo Da Vinci was an scholar on this concept, he said "Art is never finished, only abandoned" Because when you create art, you can never make a perfect image in subjective reality mimicked exactly in objective reality no matter how hard you try. Mike Tyson is actually very intelligent.

  • he definitely is intelligent, always was too (but he was emotionally vulnerable too). he's very particular on his performance in the ring. he understands that his lifestyle/behavior/background isn't perfect, but he wants his professional performance to be close to perfect. 

    that's a clever state of mind because the professional world doesn't want to know everything about you, just produce results as a serious professional

  • On the other hand, yes,, Mike said something really important: I{d say he is a perfectionist.

  • oh gosh, did someone have to quote the bible on here uuuuuuuuuuuuh

  • Man, just re-watched Mike Tyson's Greatest Hits. WOW is all i can say. Still haven't seen a fighter do what he did. It is easy to tear the guy down but he did damage in his day!

  • He sounds like michael jackson.

  • I feel so sorry for Tyson... how come all good (?) black boxers end up Islamic?!

  • more black people are islamic then anything else so that's probably why

  • What? Define black people. Are we talking African-Americans or just people of African descent. I would say you need to double check that if you are talking AfAm.

  • i mean black people as in black people, people with the skin color black, which includes africans, arabians, indians, native americains...

  • You are an ignorant dumb ass. Indians and Arabs are white also.

  • calm down

  • ur the dumbass, indians and arabs r NOT white. theyre indian or arabian. damn fuckin dumb ass bitch ha ha ha jk but yea u r dumb

  • Caucasoid is a very diverse race. White people come from many different places. For instance, thats like saying Italians are not white, they are Italian. Doesn't make sense right? Indian and middle eastern are an ethnicity. You can be indian and white at the same time just like you can be Italian and white at the same time. There is no specific group of people called "whites".

  • indians and arabs are white? thats like saying africans are white

  • India has to types of people. The Aryans and the Dravidian. The Northern Indians are aryans and have Caucasian features. Sotuh Indians are Dravidians and have features closer to negroids. So yes, some Indians are white.

  • That is absolutel bullshit...what you're saying is Nazi propaganda..in talking about the Aryan race of North India, they are absolutely not caucasian..the closest race that comes ot Caucasian is in pakistan in the Kalash valley and they trace their roots back to Indo-iranian people not caucasian, there is more to being caucasian than jsut having white skin.

  • Northern Indians have bone structures and features similar to white Europeans.

  • Interesting! You have sources, books, links that I could get more info from?

  • Just google it mate..or were you being sarcy ?

  • I don't play when it comes to knowledge. And the name calling is for children so it doesn't bother me, I pay it no mind.

  • Africans are white... Ever seen South Africa?

  • i didnt say south africa i said africa

  • get it?

  • we're talking abt niggers.

  • Because they see the light

  • MY HEART PRAYERS IS FOR MR. MIKE TYSON AND FAMILY* I HEARD THEY LOST A DAUTHER? PROVERBS 3:5 Trust in the LORD With All Thine Heart* Lean Not Unto Thine Own Understanding? *In All Thy Ways Acknowledge GOD, and He Shall Direct Thy Paths.*MAY GOD BLESS YOUR SORROWFUL HEARTS ToSEEK ETERNAL LIFE PROMISES* IN EMMANUEL JESUS *Psalms40:4 Blessed is That ManThat Makes The LORD His Trust* BELIEVE the SPIRIT of REPENTANCE*John3:3*16 *Psalms 84:5 Blessed is the Man Whose Strength is in Thee*

  • there is a big chance that mike tyson wont make it threw this, hes lost so much n this probably just killed him

    literally

  • mike ur the man ur a fuckin beastt.....

    u are the besttt

  • MIke tyson is black.

  • and your point is?

    so what if hes black?

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  • Ive been trying to copy and paste the link to the video can't do it. But its on charlie rose website. Search for Tyson

  • So sad about his daughter.

    RIP

    For all of his problems, Tyson is actually more introspective and articulate about himself than 99 percent of people I know.

  • cool

  • this is great never seen it seen the movie was amazing well made everyfin is there somewhere i could watch this show with tyson in it full version

    cheers

  • Someone directed me to the Charlie Rose website and if you do a search for Mike Tyson on there, you will be able to view the full interview.

  • found it!thanks bro!