Raging Red sent along this tale that belongs in the annals of Really Bad Ideas:
Mike Tyson wants to beat up women for charity.
But the 40-year-old former heavyweight champ promised an entertaining show Friday night when he launches the “Mike Tyson’s World Tour” in Youngstown.
At a news conference at an Italian restaurant, Tyson said he would likely go just four rounds and that future stops on the tour might include bouts with women, possibly professional boxer Ann Wolfe.
Wolfe, from Waco, Texas, is 21-1 with 15 knockouts.
“She’s such a prominent, dominant woman in the boxing field,” Tyson said.
When asked if he was joking about fighting women, Tyson said, “I’m very serious.”
You know, Mike, without even getting into the utter ickiness of you wanting to fight a woman given your history of domestic violence and sexual assault (and that’s just against women; ask Evander Holyfield sometime how he feels about you), and without even getting into the question of whether a woman boxer could take on a man, let me just remind you of the concept of weight classes in boxing. See, the idea, Mike — and see if you can follow me here — is that weight classes allow two fairly evenly matched fighters to battle it out to see who’s better. Here, let me have a promoter explain it to you:
Russ Young, a promoter for Wolfe, said such a bout will never happen.
“That’s the first we’ve heard of it,” Young said. “No state would sanction that. She would be outweighed by 60 to 70 pounds. Ann would never entertain the idea.”
Just as no male featherweight would be stupid enough to take on Iron Mike for “fun,” no female fighter, especially not one who takes her sport seriously, is going to get into the ring with a guy who outweighs her by that much, has that much longer of a reach, and, let’s face it, isn’t the most stable of characters. For “fun.”
See, Mike, back in the day, when women’s boxing wasn’t as regulated or as popular as it is today, a lot of women got seriously hurt because fighters were badly mismatched. Didn’t you see “Million Dollar Baby”? Nobody wants to go back there.
I know, I know. You’ve changed.
“It’s all fun. I’m not Mike Tyson,” he said, referring to the fierce boxer whose career was upended by a prison term. “I’m not 20 years old. I’m not going to smash anybody. I’m not going to talk about smashing anybody’s brains. You’re not going to see that guy no more.”
Really? Because you were in your 30s when you made a snack out of Holyfield’s ear, and vowed to eat Lennox Lewis’ children.
Don’t know why anybody would think that you hadn’t left all that behind you.
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I can’t believe any state would allow that wife-beating flesh-chewing animal near any woman, especially inside of a boxing ring. How is, I wonder, that scores of B- and C-list actors vanish into the periphery before their 15 minutes of fame have even cooled off, but Mike Tyson keeps coming back like a pesky hemmorhoid? Sad news, sad news.
You could duct tape Mike to a post and have women beat him with pillowcases filled with bars of soap for charity. You know, just keepin’ it fair.
I would pledge money for that.
Has Wolfe weighted in on this? (no pun intended)
…and vowed to eat Lennox Lewis’ children.
Who, BTW, don’t exist.
This guy lost touch with reality a long time ago. Sometimes I try to work up some sympathy for him, but…naaaah.
Mike Tyson is chemically imbalanced and deeply disturbed. I can only assume that his statements are meant to mock female boxing and gain media attention.
“It’s all fun. I’m not Mike Tyson,” he said”
and that goes to show that boxing is bad for what brain he had before this all started.
Of course, everyone in the room was probably too scared to correct him…. heh.
It gets better. He’s endorsed Michael Steele (R – Sellout) in his race in Maryland, and Steele is actually publicising the endorsement. You’d think he’d be trying to hide it. It’s hardly going to help him with black male voters, it’s likely to actively hurt him with black female voters that he solicited an endorsement from a convicted rapist, and does he think Maryland’s white conservative Republicans approve of Tyson?
http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2006/10/campaigning-with-criminals.html
Mike Tyson’s last wife is Michael Steele’s sister. So apparently self-hatred runs in their family. Maybe he thinks it will help him with Black male voters but when Tyson bit Holyfield he used up most of the good will he had left within that demographic.
Why the fuck is Steele palling around with his ex-brother in law, anyway? I mean, his sister divorced the guy, which would suggest she thought he was an asshole. Generally speaking aren’t you expected to take your relative’s side ina divorce? I realise there are exceptions (like my dad’s cousin whose ex-sister-in-law pointedly invited her over for Xmas dinner while pointedly NOT inviting her brother, but the guy had been such an asshole in the divorce that it was hardly surprising his family would take her side. He told her he was running off with the neighbour’s wife by arranging for her to get a letter while she was on a plane from Australia to England, on the theory that with the plane in the air, she’d have to stay on it, and even if the moment she got to Heathrow, she took the next flight back to Australia with the intention of murdering him, he’d still have a couple of days. His family didn’t much like his method of announcing a divorce).
Where was I? I digress. Oh yeah, well, the point being that unless Steele’s sister acted in such an egregiously horrible way during the divorce that Steele took her husband’s side (and given Tyson’s past history of violence and rape, I’m going to take a wild guess and say the wife probably had a good reason to file for divorce), why the fuck is he palling around with his ex-brother-in-law? SHE’S his family, not Tyson.
I’m currently living in Maryland. You cannnot fathom the depths of Michael Steele’s desperation. He already sold his soul to the devil. Just turned out that being Lt. Governor to Erlich and trotted out for a handful of press opportunities was the upshot of the deal.
Huh. Evidently he should’ve paid closer attention to the fine print. If you’re going to enter into a contractual arrangement with Satan, it’s a damn good idea to be detail-oriented and make sure you understand every clause in the contract.
I’m starting to feel rather sorry for Ms. Steele, even though I know nothing about her except that she was smart enough to divorce Tyson (we’ll skate over the part where she married him in the first place. It’s possible for a non-stupid person to make really stupid choices, particularly where sex and love are involved). She’s got a brother who’s a morally bankrupt idiot AND a psychotic ex-husband. Thanksgiving should be fun.
Anne wolfe is kick ass. Im not sayin you should tangle with someone who has 80lbs on you but still. Also men boxing women their own weight=totally doable, I mean kickboxing matches are mixed, girls win state at wrestling(which is much more about brute strength). In priniciple Id have no problem with tyson fighting a woman……if wasn’t a freaking psycho.
I’ve got a family something like that; my own personal bag of mixed nuts. Years of therapy helped make sense of the nonsense.
I’d imagine poor Ms. Steele could use some good therapy.
Which brings me to Tyson and the media swirl he generates which I am sure only feeds his mania and tendency to dillusions of grandeur. Whatever he once had of a mind seems to have withered away to nothing more than a mere cloth flapping in the wind of the media flurry around him. A tragic case indeed, but not one which brings me to any special sorrow, save for his victims.
He really needs to find something useful like the Foreman Grill to do.
I have to say, I love my Foreman Grill. It’s the best thing ever for bacon.
Like what, the Mike Tyson At-Home Ear Piercer?
Just as long as he doesn’t take other cues from Georgia Foreman and have six kids all named Mike Tyson.
Let’s hope he never reproduces.
(Thanks for posting this, zuzu!)
Too late.
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