In recent interviews leading up to his latest comeback Iron Mike has been, well Happy.
The game plan is for Tyson to fight 7 times in the next two years to regain his finical footing. I would have to assume with the current heavyweight field (besides the Klitschko Brothers Vitali & Vladimir, who is there?) and an able Tyson he could easily reunite all the belts in less than two years. He’s technically no more than three fights away. Is this the new Tyson?
This Tyson is definitely a humbled man. After all, what humbles a man worse than going broke? Where he once had expansive mansions across the country with a fleet of luxury vehicles in each garage with a pet tiger or two thrown in, he now lives in a modest two-bedroom house — just him and his pigeons.
So what’s that like, living like one of us?
“I don’t know,” says a reflective Tyson. “That doesn’t define a man. What defines a man is someone who’s failed time after time again and still has the same enthusiasm, as a winner. And those are people who are men, people who don’t stop and don’t give up and stay persistent in their goals in life. Finance doesn’t make a man, because you have a great deal of fur coats and houses and fancy cars — I used to enjoy that life, but that doesn’t make you a man.
“I could’ve accomplished that now; the only thing I have to do is just fight and I’ll be a multi-millionaire. If I fight for a year straight, then I’d have all those trinkets and toys, but I don’t think I’m that person anymore. I’m interested in raising my children and just providing for them.”
I think the story of Tyson losing it all, even his craziness and then heading out West is a truly American Story. Picture Tyson some where in the Arizona desert training for possibly the greatest comebacks of all time. Out of the Wilderness Came the Man.
The only problem I see is if and it’s still a big if, Tyson manages to obtain the unimaginable will Lennox Lewis be all to eager to take it away?
