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Weezer said:
People underestimating Tyson in his prime. The downfall of Tyson began before he ever became champion. It started when Cus D'Amato died. Cus kept him focused. Then Tyson got involved with the circus that is/was Don King and things really went south. There was a reason Tyosn was called "the baddest man on the planet". As great a tactician as Ali was, I'm not convinced he beats Tyson in his prime.
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Absolutely. Only very young Tyson was training and focused like a professional boxer and it was pure beauty.
Everything after Cus was just him going in to punch people. Unfocused, over confident, always distracted and still destroyed the majority. Many of whom, giving everything they had.

He'll always be a legend in boxing but I would've given anything if the Tyson that started the journey, was the one we saw for the next 15 years. Unreal, one of the most natural knockout artists I've ever seen.
 
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drvenner said:
I don't think checkerboards is a troll. I think he wants Tennessee to win. He just wants them to do it his way and does not care what you think about it. He might actually have some good points if he presented them in a way that did not make everyone believe he thinks we are all idiots for disagreeing with him.
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I've never seen him the way he has been recently. Something really set him off.
 
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butchna said:
Cus was 77 and in poor health…so it was an eventuality.
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Everybody dies, but we're never ready for someone we love to die, no matter the "eventuality" of the situation. Tyson was never quite the same after Cus passed. Knowing something is going to happen doesn't necessarily prepare you for it.
 
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Weezer said:
Everybody dies, but we're never ready for someone we love to die, no matter the "eventuality" of the situation. Tyson was never quite the same after Cus passed. Knowing something is going to happen doesn't necessarily prepare you for it.
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Cus died the very first year mike turned pro…… mike wasn’t even a champion until after he had died….. Tyson had a couple issues before he got married but he became extremely erratic after he married Robin Givens…. That marriage was extremely hostile and destructive…. It seemed to bleed over into the rest of Tyson’s life. I, honestly, believe that if Tyson had never married Robin and had someone like Cus keeping him focused…. He never would have lost to Buster Douglas.
 
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BigSteve09 said:
I can not wait to destroy Purdue in this bowl game.
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I hope we beat them by 30+!!! I go to church with some Purdue fans from Indiana, and one of them talked trash when I mentioned (after he was whining that they would be without their 2 best players) that we will be without our best CB and best OL, as well as our best RB who transferred. He said “we would have beaten y’all with all of those guys anyways”. Then after I said they haven’t seen an offense like ours, he said we haven’t faced a defense like theirs! Lol! We have played Georgia and Bama…does he not pay attention to any college football outside of the Weak 10?
 
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volbeast33 said:
Cus died the very first year mike turned pro…… mike wasn’t even a champion until after he had died….. Tyson had a couple issues before he got married but he became extremely erratic after he married Robin Givens…. That marriage was extremely hostile and destructive…. It seemed to bleed over into the rest of Tyson’s life. I, honestly, believe that if Tyson had never married Robin and had someone like Cus keeping him focused…. He never would have lost to Buster Douglas.
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Cus was the closest thing to a father Tyson had. No one could fill that void.
 
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drvenner said:
I don't think checkerboards is a troll. I think he wants Tennessee to win. He just wants them to do it his way and does not care what you think about it. He might actually have some good points if he presented them in a way that did not make everyone believe he thinks we are all idiots for disagreeing with him.
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He is not a troll. His anxiety about Tennessee not being the best football team is manifesting itself in these takes. It’s a tough scene.
 
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