Facing Tyson - Book Review

johnswan1 · Post by **johnswan1** » 22 Nov 2006, 08:40

Looks like it could be worth a read judging by this.

http://www.thesweetscience.com/boxing-a ... ike-tyson/

overhand_right · Post by **overhand_right** » 22 Nov 2006, 09:08

Having read boxing mags covering Tyson for over a decade, plus Phil Bergers definitive (at least up until 1995) 'Blood Season', besides a billion Tyson threads on cyberspace, the idea of any writer having anything remotely new to tell me about Tyson is laughable.

Especially when nobody in the media has had authentic access to Mikey since his prison release, access being the main stumbling block in most boxing bios.

Still, i'll check this out just to hear from his opponents. Sounds like this Gluck character has far more respect and regard for these guys than that spineless c#nt Dominic Calder-Smith, who used 'The Long Round' to slyly take the piss out of his less articulate subjects who achieved more in one night than Calder-pretentious double barrelled surname-Smith could do in his entire lifetime.

Besides, Gluck sold me on this one line-

Gluck fella wrote:“As a writer,” he adds, “I am acutely aware of the fact that I am treading on the very thin ice of racial stereotype, but Mitch Green looks like the kind of guy who would kill you for your Nikes and throw the shoeless body in the dumpster. This makes me uneasy.”

Possibly the greatest, or GOAT, line of any boxing book in history.

johnswan1 · Post by **johnswan1** » 22 Nov 2006, 09:13

Yeah there has already been a lot said about Tyson, but the stories of these past opponents (or of plenty of past boxers for that matter) are always good reading. Particularly with the Tyson factor, it would be interesting to hear how much of an impact of merely fighting Tyson made on their lives.

TerribleTerry · Post by **TerribleTerry** » 23 Nov 2006, 16:24

overhand_right wrote: Besides, Gluck sold me on this one line-

Gluck fella wrote:“As a writer,” he adds, “I am acutely aware of the fact that I am treading on the very thin ice of racial stereotype, but Mitch Green looks like the kind of guy who would kill you for your Nikes and throw the shoeless body in the dumpster. This makes me uneasy.”
Possibly the greatest, or GOAT, line of any boxing book in history.

...and wholly believable to boot!