Some feel tension as fight approaches
Tensions are running a little high as we get closer to the Mellow Mike Tyson-Irish Kevin McBride fight tomorrow night at MCI Center.
Not between the fighters, mind you. Mike is still mellow, and Irish Kevin is still catatonic, though he did show some emotion yesterday with a shake of his fist and a "yes!" after surviving a staredown following the weigh-in at Howard University's Blackburn Ballroom for their scheduled 10-round heavyweight fight.
But those people around th
Tyson might have bonded with Elvis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Mike Tyson is staying in some former University of Memphis quarterback's private home outside of town, but is there any doubt that if Elvis were still alive, 911 Mike would be spending his time at Graceland, shooting out televisions and eating peanut butter and fried banana sandwiches with the King?
If there was ever a marriage of fame and misery, it would have been Elvis and 911 Mike - both larger than life figures (in Elvis' case, larger than two lives)
Tyson-Holyfield II hardly I for the ages; Challenger's tactics were simply bizarre
LAS VEGAS - Mike Tyson may have wanted a piece of Evander Holyfield, but what he did in the ring at the MGM Grand Garden on Saturday night went too far.
Tyson's bizarre behavior in the third round of Holyfield-Tyson II - biting Holyfield once on each ear to merit a disqualification - changed the face of boxing. Now, the sport will have to add a new measurement to the tale of the tape - length of ear lobe.
"He caught me with a good shot and bit my ear and spit it out," Hol
