Requiem for a Heavyweight
5th Sep 2005, 13:58 GMT
He's done. Mike Tyson is done. Oh, of course he'll step into a boxing ring again somewhere. He has to fight. It's how he earns a livelihood, the only way. But he's done as a big draw, done chasing championships, done as a threatening, frightening fighter. This could appear on the obituary page as easily as the sports section. Mike Tyson, once the "Baddest Man on the Planet" and seemingly invincible, tried to break journeyman Kevin McBride's arm a time or two last night. Tyson ripped open McBride's left eye with a deliberately vicious head butt. And when neither tactic could gain him an advantage, Tyson knew the outcome, probably before anybody else. Perhaps because he couldn't get his teeth near the ears of his 6-foot-6 opponent, Tyson sat on his stool at the end of the sixth round and simply quit.