TYSON-MCBRIDE, APPARENTLY HERE IN THE DISTRICT

Earlier this evening, Mike Tyson dragged his anemic "comeback" fight vs. someone named Kevin McBride (think Ben Affleck off the Atkins Diet) to the MCI Center in downtown Washington. I didn't watch.* There is little surprise in the news that Old Man Dynamite simply gave up after the sixth round, unable to get up off his stool when the next bell rang. If you think you barely noticed, I'm the one who lives here.

Thirty words and one sentence into the first NYT dispatch, the Times' sportswriter declares:

If this does not convince the public that Tyson (50-6) is washed up, perhaps nothing will.

But will it convince Tyson? Or the fight-promoters willing to stand him up against any old Bald Bull, or maybe even a King Hippo?

Sometimes the Times' clueless news analysis is harmless enough to be funny.


UPDATE WAY TOO LATE TO MEAN ANYTHING, BUT WHATEVER — So, later I read that Tyson himself said he was done. We'll see.

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* The last Tyson PPV I saw was vs. Lennox Lewis at Andrew Adams' house on Hilyard, the one FLOG™, I, and a whole grip of degenerate UO pseudo-scholars nearly moved into in late 1999 before settling on The Plantation.

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