The fight was hard for Colon, due to Williams’s frequent rabbit punches that have diminished little by little. On the seventh round, Prichard went down after another blow received in his nape, but he continued in the action. The referee Joe Cooper deducted a point to Terrel Williams in that round.
Led by Eddie Hearn, Matchroom’s promotional stable of boxers includes World Champions and Olympians from Anthony Joshua to Katie Taylor, Callum Smith to Josh Warrington and many, many more top boxers globally.
After several successful fights, Tyson came head-to-head with his next big challenger: Evander Holyfield. Holyfield had been promised a title shot against Tyson in 1990 before Douglas defeated Tyson. Instead, Holyfield fought Douglas for the heavyweight title on October 25, 1990, and beat his opponent by knockout to become the new undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.
Neben dem veränderten Training übten auch die zunehmenden Probleme im Privatleben einen schlechten Einfluss auf Tysons weitere sportliche Entwicklung aus. Nachdem er bereits 1987 wegen sexueller Belästigung einer Frau und Körperverletzung bei einem Rockkonzert angeklagt worden war, zog sich Tyson im August 1988 bei einer Schlägerei mit seinem früheren Gegner Mitch Green einen Bruch der rechten Hand zu, was zu einer Verschiebung der Titelverteidigung gegen Bruno führte. Außerdem musste Tyson vermehrt gegen Übergewicht ankämpfen – angeblich verlor er vor dem Kampf gegen Bruno über 20 kg Gewicht. Auch in der Ehe mit Robin Givens gab es wiederholt Probleme, die immer öfter in der Öffentlichkeit ausgetragen wurden. Dazu gehörten Vorwürfe von häuslicher Gewalt seiner Ehefrau und seiner Schwiegermutter gegenüber, eine von seiner Ehefrau vorgetäuschte Schwangerschaft sowie ein Autounfall Tysons, der als Selbstmordversuch dargestellt wurde. Im September 1988 erklärte Robin Givens vor laufenden Kameras und neben ihrem Mann sitzend, dass ihre Ehe mit dem Boxweltmeister die „pure Hölle” und Tyson manisch depressiv sei. Dies habe mit seiner Kindheit in Brownsville und dem schlechten Verhältnis zu seiner verstorbenen Mutter zu tun. Außerdem warf sie dem früheren Mentor von Tyson, Cus D’Amato, vor, er habe Tyson zwar perfekt auf ein Leben als Boxer vorbereitet, aber nie auf ein Leben außerhalb des Rings. Ihr Mann sei nur darauf fokussiert worden, Weltmeister zu werden, aber nicht auf die Folgen, die dieser Titel für das Privatleben mit sich bringt. Tyson schien von den Aussagen seiner Ehefrau überrascht zu sein. Wenige Tage nach diesem Fernsehauftritt flüchteten Givens und ihre Mutter aus dem gemeinsamen Anwesen in Bernhardsville (New York). Im Februar 1989 wurde die Ehe zwischen Tyson und Givens geschieden.
Published in 2007, author Joe Layden’s book The Last Great Fight: The Extraordinary Tale of Two Men and How One Fight Changed Their Lives Forever, chronicled the lives of Tyson and Douglas before and after their heavyweight championship fight.
“A week later he fought and knocked out Clifford in one round and I was upset. I was happy for Mike that he won, but I was also upset that I had trained him for eight weeks and I wasn’t part of that win.”
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So I really started to apply myself. I think I’m the stupidest guy in the world when it comes to scholastics, but I got my honor-roll star and I said “Yes, sir” and “No, ma’am” to everyone, just being a model citizen so I could go over to fight with Stewart. It took me a month, but I finally earned enough credits to go. I was supremely confident that I was going to demolish him and that everyone would suck up to me.
Paul – who competed in his first 8th division boxing match in 2018 after achieving social media stardom and is the co-founder of MVP – agreed to the postponement to “ensure that both athletes have equal training time to prepare for this important match and are able to compete at the highest level.”
One day I went into this neighborhood in Crown Heights and I robbed a house with this older guy. We found $2,200 in cash, and he cut me in for $600. So I went to a pet store and bought a hundred bucks’ worth of birds. They put them in a crate for me, and the owner helped me get them on the subway. When I got off, I had somebody from my neighborhood help me drag the crate to the condemned building where I was hiding my pigeons. But this guy went and told some kids that I had all these birds. So a guy named Gary Flowers and some friends of his came and started to rob me. My mother saw them messing with the birds and told me, and I ran out into the street and confronted them. They saw me coming and stopped grabbing the birds, but this guy Gary still had one of them under his coat.
Tennis star Arthur Ashe, who won three Grand Slams and fought against racism and AIDS throughout his career, also marks the skin of the great boxer, with the text ‘Days of Grace’, as does the image of a dragon.