the infamous Mike Tyson taking on the big guy from Ireland this Sat night in Washington DC.
McBride gets $150,000 while Tyson gets $5M.
McBride gets $150,000 while Tyson gets $5M.
Tyson vs McBride
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I saw the press conference. Tyson told him that he was going to "gut him like a fish."
I never heard of McBride until details of this fight were announced
heard he's a journeyman pro, represented Ireland in the Olympics
If Tyson has been training well and his mind is up to it he'll probably annihilate McBride but I wouldn't be too surprised to see a shock either
I think its a shame that Tyson's career has ended up like this, like him or loathe him he was a great character for boxing
heard he's a journeyman pro, represented Ireland in the Olympics
If Tyson has been training well and his mind is up to it he'll probably annihilate McBride but I wouldn't be too surprised to see a shock either
I think its a shame that Tyson's career has ended up like this, like him or loathe him he was a great character for boxing
Tyson quit on his stool at the end of the sixth.
Didn't see the fight, but I smell a rat.
What were the betting odds on McBride winning ?
Tyson has announced his retirement..............until his next comeback announcement, no doubt.
Sad that another boxing legend has ended up like this..........
Didn't see the fight, but I smell a rat.
What were the betting odds on McBride winning ?
Tyson has announced his retirement..............until his next comeback announcement, no doubt.
Sad that another boxing legend has ended up like this..........
Tyson lost?
hmmm.............
hmmm.............
redcharlie said:
didn't see it either, just the after bout interviews
either McBride is on an upward curve career wise or as you imply something fishy has occurred
he was brutally honest in the interview...
I just don't want to fight anymore, its not in my heart...I realised i am finished...
shame he didn't realise this a few years ago...
I just don't want to fight anymore, its not in my heart...I realised i am finished...
shame he didn't realise this a few years ago...
McBride stated afterwards that he wants to be the first Irish born world heaveyweight champion
cant see it happening but I suppose its fantastic for him to have a win over Tyson on his CV, not many fighters can lay claim to that
its a sad decline for "Iron Mike", remember when he was at his peak, he was awesome, used to win his fights even before he entered the ring
cant see it happening but I suppose its fantastic for him to have a win over Tyson on his CV, not many fighters can lay claim to that
its a sad decline for "Iron Mike", remember when he was at his peak, he was awesome, used to win his fights even before he entered the ring
my mate is tysons biggest fan...
he was gutted at the end...
the gay
he was gutted at the end...
the gay
Real shame the guys a legend.
Rapes women though
Rapes women though
frunny how two of the supposed hard nuts of boxing, Liston & Tyson, both ended their careers on their stools...
but Tyson got £5 million for it so he wont give a feck..
Not having seen it, I'm not placed to comment, but he was 2-1 up on the judges scorecards when he quit.
He would certainly have been aware of that.
He would certainly have been aware of that.
Robbo said:
He needed 40m though and this was supposed to be the first of as many as 7 leading up to a world title shot. The guy is a joke frankly.
Dans said:
That's right Dans.......
A five million purse could easily be dispersed in bets to lose in the States.
It would be interesting to know what was wagered in this scrap between two non-contenders and how the bets were spread.
If there was any kind of fighter Tyson loved to scrap it was tall, slow movers......like McBride. The bookies knew that, hence the great odds against a McBride win. Tyson's handlers knew that too........The guys a mug, but that not much of a mug that he quits 30 plus million down on his stool.
well all that can be said about Tyson can be summed up in the words that were said right after he was knocked out by Buster Douglas...
"Will Mike Tyson ever get up from this knockout?"
the answer was no.
I loved Tyson in the mid to late 80s when he first came up...everybody did, I was at school and everyone used to gather in the TV room for his fights to watch him destroy the opponent...he was truly a king...it's sad what he became in the ring, sadder what he became outside the ring, and simply repulsive the things he did to innocent people.
I feel bad for him because he has some very serious problems as well as a brutally unhappy upbringing.
He has been lied to, misled, abandoned, stolen from and cheated his whole life.
It's no wonder he's a mess...his whole fortune was virtually stolen out from under him by unscrupulous people and his own ignorance...he threw away a fortune that could have lasted the average person 50 lifetimes.
I don't know what he will do now, but chances are his life is going to have a very unhappy ending...suicide, or God knows what.
sad tale for a very sad character.
"Will Mike Tyson ever get up from this knockout?"
the answer was no.
I loved Tyson in the mid to late 80s when he first came up...everybody did, I was at school and everyone used to gather in the TV room for his fights to watch him destroy the opponent...he was truly a king...it's sad what he became in the ring, sadder what he became outside the ring, and simply repulsive the things he did to innocent people.
I feel bad for him because he has some very serious problems as well as a brutally unhappy upbringing.
He has been lied to, misled, abandoned, stolen from and cheated his whole life.
It's no wonder he's a mess...his whole fortune was virtually stolen out from under him by unscrupulous people and his own ignorance...he threw away a fortune that could have lasted the average person 50 lifetimes.
I don't know what he will do now, but chances are his life is going to have a very unhappy ending...suicide, or God knows what.
sad tale for a very sad character.
FLASHWOK said:
I agree with every word of that Flash.
The rape I'm still unconvinced about though.........what woman goes upstairs with the heavyweight champion of the world, goes into the bathroom and removes her tampon and doesn't wan't sex?
redcharlie said:
true...but i wouldn't put it past Tyson...he was such a bizarre character that reason doesn't come in to the equation...
and if she did change her mind it still is up to her...and I don't see him being the type of character who once he wanted something had any intention of stopping.
sad all around...a regular train wreck. I expect to see him in the ring again when he needs more money...he is still worth a fortune to promoters and such if not just for the novelty and spectacle alone....they don't care about him and as long as he still turns them a tidy profit what do they care?
It was hotly debated here in the States prior to the fight and Tyson is still considered the most "charismatic" and "controversial" sports personality there is, even on dysfunction alone.
who else inspires so many conflicting emotions of dislike, pity, hatred, confusion, interest, morbid fascination etc etc and on and on?
He is still truly a modern carnival act, for better or worse...sadly worse for him and better for the promoters and public.
The rape conviction was unsound. Mega celebrities are there for con men/women to fleece them for millions. The same can apply to Michael Jackson. I'm not saying the girl wasn't raped just that there certainly is reasonable doubt there.
McBride will never be world champ. He will however make enough money from his next fight to retire on. Not bad for 18 minutes work.
McBride will never be world champ. He will however make enough money from his next fight to retire on. Not bad for 18 minutes work.
Fair play to McBride, he done Ireland proud.
Do not elevate Tyson to greats like Ali,Foreman. Frazier etc.Tyson came along when the heavyweight division was weak and he happened to have a bit of character about him.Decent fighter, nothing else,never really fought a top drawer fighter, he fought Lewis who at the time was finished and he spanked his arse.
Do not elevate Tyson to greats like Ali,Foreman. Frazier etc.Tyson came along when the heavyweight division was weak and he happened to have a bit of character about him.Decent fighter, nothing else,never really fought a top drawer fighter, he fought Lewis who at the time was finished and he spanked his arse.
Boxing Sun, Jun 12, 2005
Books hit hard by Tyson loss
Julian Dickinson
The bookies never saw this one coming.
They figured the betting public was still enamored with Mike Tyson when they made him a heavy favorite in Saturday night’s heavyweight bout against an unknown and uninteresting Irishman named Kevin McBride.
But as it turns out, bettors had watched the troubled, aging former champion get bashed around by too many mediocre fighters. So as the action poured in before fight time, it was clear: everybody wanted a piece of the underdog.
The miscalculation was a costly one for sportsbooks.
“The Tyson fight was easily our biggest loss of the day, one of the biggest losses we`ve taken in a while,” said Bodog.com oddsmaker Bill Beatty. “Almost all the action we had was on McBride.”
When sportsbooks see disproportionate betting action on one side of an event, they usually try to curb the trend by adjusting the odds. In this instance, McBride’s long odds were quickly trimmed down, as bettors watched the lines change by a much greater margin than is normally seen in boxing matches.
“We open the line on Friday with McBride at +500,” Beatty said, “by morning it was down to +450 and [just before fight time] it was at +250.”
Tyson boasted he was going to gut McBride “like a fish” in a pre-fight press conference, but when the bell rang, it was the 6-foot-6, 271-pound challenger who had Tyson on the hook. McBride used his size and power to dismantle the smaller fighter and by the seventh round, Tyson was done.
The 38-year-old who became the youngest heavyweight champ in history back in 1986, announced after the loss, his fighting career was finished.
"When I`m on top of my game it`s really hard for anybody who ever lived to beat me,” Tyson told television reporters, “but the fighting world is not what I love anymore. That`s how people define me but I am not that person anymore."
It was Tyson’s second straight loss. He was knocked out in the fourth round by unheralded British heavyweight, Danny Williams last July in similar upset. Oddsmakers should have learned from that fight.
“This was a case where the public knew the fighter was done before he did,” Beattie said.
Books hit hard by Tyson loss
Julian Dickinson
The bookies never saw this one coming.
They figured the betting public was still enamored with Mike Tyson when they made him a heavy favorite in Saturday night’s heavyweight bout against an unknown and uninteresting Irishman named Kevin McBride.
But as it turns out, bettors had watched the troubled, aging former champion get bashed around by too many mediocre fighters. So as the action poured in before fight time, it was clear: everybody wanted a piece of the underdog.
The miscalculation was a costly one for sportsbooks.
“The Tyson fight was easily our biggest loss of the day, one of the biggest losses we`ve taken in a while,” said Bodog.com oddsmaker Bill Beatty. “Almost all the action we had was on McBride.”
When sportsbooks see disproportionate betting action on one side of an event, they usually try to curb the trend by adjusting the odds. In this instance, McBride’s long odds were quickly trimmed down, as bettors watched the lines change by a much greater margin than is normally seen in boxing matches.
“We open the line on Friday with McBride at +500,” Beatty said, “by morning it was down to +450 and [just before fight time] it was at +250.”
Tyson boasted he was going to gut McBride “like a fish” in a pre-fight press conference, but when the bell rang, it was the 6-foot-6, 271-pound challenger who had Tyson on the hook. McBride used his size and power to dismantle the smaller fighter and by the seventh round, Tyson was done.
The 38-year-old who became the youngest heavyweight champ in history back in 1986, announced after the loss, his fighting career was finished.
"When I`m on top of my game it`s really hard for anybody who ever lived to beat me,” Tyson told television reporters, “but the fighting world is not what I love anymore. That`s how people define me but I am not that person anymore."
It was Tyson’s second straight loss. He was knocked out in the fourth round by unheralded British heavyweight, Danny Williams last July in similar upset. Oddsmakers should have learned from that fight.
“This was a case where the public knew the fighter was done before he did,” Beattie said.
My 3 reasons for Tyson's fall:
1) Cus D'amato's death - he was like a father to Mike. Mike respected him and listened to him. Cus would have made him the best ever. And Cus probably keeps him out of the rape troubles.
2) Don King - he came in with the big money offers after Cus had told Mike to work his way up, define his skills, and earn the big money in 2-3 years.
3) Kevin Rooney - Cus had Rooney work with Tyson. The guy is a jerk-off, but he knows his stuff. With him in the corner, Tyson doesn't lose to Douglas. Don King had Tyson's management team fire Rooney. King fed Tyson racial crap to plant in his head that Rooney was using him.
Oh, I could add his first wife, she was a total bitch. The whole miscarriage thing was an act, supposedly.
1) Cus D'amato's death - he was like a father to Mike. Mike respected him and listened to him. Cus would have made him the best ever. And Cus probably keeps him out of the rape troubles.
2) Don King - he came in with the big money offers after Cus had told Mike to work his way up, define his skills, and earn the big money in 2-3 years.
3) Kevin Rooney - Cus had Rooney work with Tyson. The guy is a jerk-off, but he knows his stuff. With him in the corner, Tyson doesn't lose to Douglas. Don King had Tyson's management team fire Rooney. King fed Tyson racial crap to plant in his head that Rooney was using him.
Oh, I could add his first wife, she was a total bitch. The whole miscarriage thing was an act, supposedly.
MrMarcello said: