I mean I know he was past it, but he was only 39.
How can he lose all his devastating punch power and even pride as a boxer to go out like that against a professional bum boxer from Ireland?
!!??
Mcbride vs Tyson victim Galota not long later.
Prime Tyson brutalizes Galota into quitting.
You can decline but that much and that fast? Especially since he still looks good on the pads in his 50's.
What do you think are prime Tyson years?
Tyson's best work was 85 to 88. Of course, morons think that Tyson fought a bunch of bums or that Larry Holmes was old, but an even older Holmes went the distance with Evander Holyfield years later and gave him a tough fight, but that gets overlooked (this same Holmes was a 4 to 1 underdog against Mercer and beat him and Mercer gave Lennox Lewis a brutally tough fight).
Goleta might be unreliable, but he also was a talented guy who maybe didn't operate best at the highest level. Watch his two Bowe fights and you will see the good and bad in Golota. Tyson blasted him out quick. That Tysom was a three round fighter.
Of course an unmotivated, derelict, and purposeless Tyson, whose style ages badly after 30 would look bad against McBride.
Tyson had no real external structures after Atlas, then D'Amato, then Jimmy Jacobs, then Rooney left him. The Ruddock fights were, to me, his last great performances. I still think Holyfield headbutted too much in his first Tyson fight.
Also, be (edited out "because") careful using the word "bum," as most people are too afraid to step through the ropes and get attacked by trained punchers. One could argue the real bum is the man who was always too afraid to do something they admired.
