Glad I didn't pay $50 for this...
Watched the torrent of the Tyson/Williams fight. Talk about potential wasted.
Round one - Tyson comes out punching. Williams seems unafraid initially to go right at Tyson, but then Tyson starts to pour it on, clinching and smashing Williams to the body. With 1:30 left in the round, Tyson staggers Williams with a vicious left and a nasty uppercut, and continues pounding away. But with :30 left in the first round, Tyson steps back on a break and apparently injures something in his leg. Seemingly unaffected but adopting a wide stance, Tyson continues to pound Williams right up to the bell. 10-9, maybe even 10-8 Tyson.
Round two - Announcers suggest maybe Tyson's twisted his knee. Tyson continues to pour it on as best he can in the first minute, but his mobility seems limited a bit, and he sort of stumbles into a clinch at 2:00. Williams gets off a good left hook that seems to stop Tyson for a second. With 1:00 left, Williams turns on the jets, pounding back at Tyson and while probably not hurting him all that much, certainly slowing some of his momentum. The round ends with Tyson flailing a missed uppercut at the bell. 10-9 Williams, as he just seemed to outwork Tyson for more of the round.
Between rounds they show a different camera angle of Tyson grabbing his knee in round one. Not a great angle, but it's obvious something's wrong. They don't stay with Freddie Roach in Tyson's corner long enough to get a sense of what's happening, but they seem very calm about what's going on.
Round three - Tyson tries to be dominant, and backs Williams up against the ropes, but Williams seems to be taking it in stride and pounding back. But at 2:25, he punches Tyson while the ref is trying to break the clinch, and gets a point taken away. The ref then brings the doc in as Tyson has a cut over the right eye, apparently from an unintentional head butt. Tyson comes out swinging, but takes a low blow at about 1:40, and Williams loses another point. Christ, Tyson's taking a lot of abuse, but he keeps coming at Williams. Another near miss at the bell. I can't say Tyson won the round, so I'd probably call this one 9-8 Tyson on the deductions only.
Round four - Tyson comes out firing big again to start the round, and staggers Williams a bit with a flurry about thirty seconds in. Williams continues to respond right back though, as the announcers go on about how much heart Williams is showing. At 1:30, the crowd starts a Tyson chant as he continues to dish it AND take it. Tyson seems to be looking for the one punch finish here, as though he knows he doesn't have much left in the tank. At the :30 mark, Williams launches his big barrage, nailing Tyson with impunity. Tyson gets one last swat off, and with ten seconds, Williams sends Tyson reeling back into the ropes. Tyson's up(sort of) at 9, but this fight is over. The final punch is a nasty right hand, and the ref jumps in as Tyson goes into the ropes. Tyson even gets an extra couple of seconds as Williams was late getting to his neutral corner, but the result isn't in doubt at this point.
As they go to Jimmy Lennon Jr. for the post-mortem announcement, Showtime focuses on the dejected Tyson sitting in his corner as the announcers speculate on whether or not we're looking at the end of his career.
And that's the $40 million dollar question, isn't it? Subsequent reports have come out that Tyson has a complex tear of the lateral meniscus in his left knee and will have to have surgery. He had been talking about fighting at least once more this year. That's probably off the table now, as is a four-fight, $100 million dollar deal that Bob Arum was going to give Tyson. Gone too is a potential shot at one of the pretender champs to the Heavyweight title(and an eventual date with Vitali Klitschko). But I can't imagine Tyson being completely gone from boxing, not with the huge debts he has. If the buyrate on this fight is good, and I figure it probably will be, someone down the line will want to book Tyson on a PPV, even if he's fighting on the undercard. He's like a grim shadow hanging over the division, known more to non-fight fans then any of the current crop of heavyweight contenders and champions.
I'm sure he'll turn up again. Bad pennies always do.
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The less said about the trade deadline the better, save that the Red Sox got rid of their "cancer" and brought a few new players in so that we could find a new person to hang the Curse on.
Oh, and Jose Contreras sucks.
Round one - Tyson comes out punching. Williams seems unafraid initially to go right at Tyson, but then Tyson starts to pour it on, clinching and smashing Williams to the body. With 1:30 left in the round, Tyson staggers Williams with a vicious left and a nasty uppercut, and continues pounding away. But with :30 left in the first round, Tyson steps back on a break and apparently injures something in his leg. Seemingly unaffected but adopting a wide stance, Tyson continues to pound Williams right up to the bell. 10-9, maybe even 10-8 Tyson.
Round two - Announcers suggest maybe Tyson's twisted his knee. Tyson continues to pour it on as best he can in the first minute, but his mobility seems limited a bit, and he sort of stumbles into a clinch at 2:00. Williams gets off a good left hook that seems to stop Tyson for a second. With 1:00 left, Williams turns on the jets, pounding back at Tyson and while probably not hurting him all that much, certainly slowing some of his momentum. The round ends with Tyson flailing a missed uppercut at the bell. 10-9 Williams, as he just seemed to outwork Tyson for more of the round.
Between rounds they show a different camera angle of Tyson grabbing his knee in round one. Not a great angle, but it's obvious something's wrong. They don't stay with Freddie Roach in Tyson's corner long enough to get a sense of what's happening, but they seem very calm about what's going on.
Round three - Tyson tries to be dominant, and backs Williams up against the ropes, but Williams seems to be taking it in stride and pounding back. But at 2:25, he punches Tyson while the ref is trying to break the clinch, and gets a point taken away. The ref then brings the doc in as Tyson has a cut over the right eye, apparently from an unintentional head butt. Tyson comes out swinging, but takes a low blow at about 1:40, and Williams loses another point. Christ, Tyson's taking a lot of abuse, but he keeps coming at Williams. Another near miss at the bell. I can't say Tyson won the round, so I'd probably call this one 9-8 Tyson on the deductions only.
Round four - Tyson comes out firing big again to start the round, and staggers Williams a bit with a flurry about thirty seconds in. Williams continues to respond right back though, as the announcers go on about how much heart Williams is showing. At 1:30, the crowd starts a Tyson chant as he continues to dish it AND take it. Tyson seems to be looking for the one punch finish here, as though he knows he doesn't have much left in the tank. At the :30 mark, Williams launches his big barrage, nailing Tyson with impunity. Tyson gets one last swat off, and with ten seconds, Williams sends Tyson reeling back into the ropes. Tyson's up(sort of) at 9, but this fight is over. The final punch is a nasty right hand, and the ref jumps in as Tyson goes into the ropes. Tyson even gets an extra couple of seconds as Williams was late getting to his neutral corner, but the result isn't in doubt at this point.
As they go to Jimmy Lennon Jr. for the post-mortem announcement, Showtime focuses on the dejected Tyson sitting in his corner as the announcers speculate on whether or not we're looking at the end of his career.
And that's the $40 million dollar question, isn't it? Subsequent reports have come out that Tyson has a complex tear of the lateral meniscus in his left knee and will have to have surgery. He had been talking about fighting at least once more this year. That's probably off the table now, as is a four-fight, $100 million dollar deal that Bob Arum was going to give Tyson. Gone too is a potential shot at one of the pretender champs to the Heavyweight title(and an eventual date with Vitali Klitschko). But I can't imagine Tyson being completely gone from boxing, not with the huge debts he has. If the buyrate on this fight is good, and I figure it probably will be, someone down the line will want to book Tyson on a PPV, even if he's fighting on the undercard. He's like a grim shadow hanging over the division, known more to non-fight fans then any of the current crop of heavyweight contenders and champions.
I'm sure he'll turn up again. Bad pennies always do.
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The less said about the trade deadline the better, save that the Red Sox got rid of their "cancer" and brought a few new players in so that we could find a new person to hang the Curse on.
Oh, and Jose Contreras sucks.
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