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Friday, February 14 Updated: February 16, 12:08 PM ET Tyson says he never wanted to be normal ESPN.com |
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Mike Tyson never fails to put on some kind of a show, be it a fierce display of fighting skills or a sideshow performance that has observers wondering if he needs psychiatric help. Apparently, Tyson himself wonders those same things. In a Sunday Conversation with ESPN's Jeremy Schaap, the former heavyweight champion expounds on what it's like to be a fighter, saying, "we're not normal." He also says he didn't prepare properly for his last bout with current champion Lennox Lewis, who pounded Tyson last June in the highest-grossing pay-per-view event in history. For his next fight, against Clifford Etienne next week at The Pyramid in Memphis, Tyson says he wants to "purge the ring with blood." That's the kind of talk we've become accustomed to hearing from Iron Mike. Here are some other offerings from the interview:
The divorce is still new. She's giving me a hard time about everything right now, but it'll be all right, I believe. Down the line everything shall pass they say, the hard feelings and everything, but it's really a great learning experience in life that someone could love you one minute and be willing to kill you the next. What a splendid web we spinned, huh?
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