Mike Tyson: From Feared Fighter to Doughy Zero
Boxing, Fat May 22nd. 2008, 2:30pm
Portly? Stout? What has caused Mike Tyson’s immense weight gain? This is totally begging to be a Sports Illustrated cover with a sensational headline and a more slovenly photograph. Ten years ago, you see Mike Tyson on the street and you keep your distance from the incredible physical specimen who won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, bloodied Mitch Green in front of a store called Dapper Dans one night, and generally seemed angry.
Now? You might offer the guy spare change for a warm meal.
Report: Tyson has been eating way too many children (Sports Hernia)
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May 22nd, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Mike Tyson looks like he is caught in a snow storm.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I bet this story would make sense if big brother wasn’t blocking that pic.
Busted Big Brother.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
You think that’s fat?
/George Foreman
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Wild guess…eating a lot?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:36 pm
i cant see the picture, but i will live
my favorite Mike Tyson quote: “I can sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating.”
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:37 pm
I don’t want FOP damn it, I’m a Dapper Dan man!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 pm
irish - he will beat himself into bolivian.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Watch your language, young feller. This is a public market. Now, if you want Dapper Dan, I can order it for you, have it in a couple of weeks.
Well, ain’t this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I’d kick his ass and take his lunch money.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
+1 st. Bear.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Tony Gwynn thinks this guy needs to find his own act.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
I heard on ESPN radio he’s agreed to fight Kimbo Slice.
But he might want to lay off the pork rinds before doing so.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Is this the picture?
I think he ate Buster Douglas.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:47 pm
20 years ago I ran into Mike Tyson in the street. He was chilling in the sidecar of a motorcycle his boy was driving. Who the heck rides in a sidecar?!?
But, I should note, he was also a totally cool, approachable guy. Everyone was like “Yo Mike, what’s up?”…
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I don’t mean to be telling tales out of school, but that man in there will pay you $10 to sing into his can.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
who would have thought evander holyfields ears were so high in fat?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
@fluffy bunny- are you being serious? i would watch that fight
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
The only thing Tyson is fighting is the buffet line.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
20 years ago Tyson would destroy Kimbo Slice now he would ask Kimbo for a slice.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Slice vs Tyson from a jail cell would rock though.
One shiv and only one man can live.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
@ jb: and Don King is still making more money/sausages on that fight than Mike is…
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I am a man of constant sorrow, I’ve seen trouble all my days.I bid farewell to ole Kentucky,The place where I was born and raised. The place where he was born and raised!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Oh George, not the livestock.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:55 pm
While there are many lesser imps and demons, the great satan himself is red with a bi-forcated tale and carries a hay fork.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Irish - That a real quote? F-ing awesome. First time I laughed out loud today…
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Anybody here a smithy?
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Kimbo and Tyson is nothing more than a wild rumor.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Also: “Zero” is one of the most insulting names you can call someone if you think about it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Is you is, or is you ain’t my constituency?
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:03 pm
@walfredo- yeah. gotta love Iron Mike
My style is impetuous. My defense is impregnable, and I’m just ferocious.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
“You should try the Chilean seabass, it’s stupendous”
… Drederick Tatum’d
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
“I think Homer Simpson is a good man. I like him. I have nothing against him, but I will definitely make orphans of his children.”
-Drederick Tatum
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
To second stopmikelupica, I met Mike Tyson on the street around 10 years ago, and he was amazingly friendly. I said hello, and he introduced himself as if I didn’t know who he was.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
John - Did he have a piece of human ear in his mouth?
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
That’s really sad. Tyson was the man back in the day.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Well, it didn’t look like a two-horse town, but try finding a decent hair jelly.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
A co-worker of mine got excited about the prospects of a Tyson-Slice MMA fight. Then of course he dropped the required ‘Tyson was the MAN back in the day’ quote. The key word in that statement is ‘was’, not ‘MAN’. He’s old, washed up, and of no consequence today. He is the equivalent of watching a bear ride a bicycle. I don’t even watch MMA, but Kimbo Slice would put Tyson out of his misery.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Perhaps I’m looking too much into this but does this photo look photoshopped? Like Tyson’s head was put on the body?