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Kevin McBride has retired in the wake of his defeat to Poland's Tomasz Adamek over the weekend in New Jersey. The likeable if lumbering Irishman stuck it out for 12 rounds with the quicker, sharper Adamek, who moves on to Vitali Klitschko for the WBC heavyweight title, but was never in the hunt and lost widely on the scorecards.
"He's a hard man to catch," said McBride. "Speed is power. He has a lot of speed and there is a bit of power."
McBride, 37, will always be remembered as the man who ended the career of Mike Tyson in 2005 in the States, forcing an exhausted Tyson to quit on his stool after five rounds. Given no chance beforehand, McBride whipped himself into great shape and survived the early attacks of the bullying New Yorker, who resorted to desperate measures as the fight slipped away from him, including a blatant butt. By the fifth, the rusty, 38-year-old Tyson had nothing left as McBride thumped away to the bell. The memory of Tyson seemingly stuck to the canvas after slipping over in the round remains hard to forget. It was a genuine win for the big Clones man but he rested on his laurels so long that age and ring-rust also caught up with him. Kevin lost five of his seven fights after Tyson.
A pro since 1992, McBride, went unbeaten in his first 20 outings (16 early) before Louis Monaco, ironically a Tyson lookalike, outlasted him in five shocking rounds in Las Vegas in 1997. McBride, based in the States, struggled to recapture his early form and was going nowhere when he secured the Tyson fight eight years later on a sweltering night in Washington D.C. and finally proved his worth. McBride, 35-9-1 (25), overachieved and underachieved, looked good and not so good, disappointed and surprised... Oh yes, life was never dull in a boxing ring with Kevin McBride.

Fair play to Kevin McBride, he battered Tyson. Some will say that Tyson was a shell of the prime Tyson and of course he was but Tyson deserved to be beaten to a pulp for his pre fight comments about McBride.
If I were Kevin I would not have shook Tysons hand afterwards and I would have asked him at the post fight conference who was the bitch now.
McBride is a gentleman and thats why he did not lower himself to Tysons level.
Kevin was gifted with a huge frame and if only he was quicker and in better condition he could have picked up a world title from the right fight, on the right night.