Larry Holmes: "Everything I predicted and said about Mike Tyson came true" - Boxing News 24 Forum
Larry Holmes: "Everything I predicted and said about Mike Tyson came true" - Boxing News 24 Forum
CIANI: Earlier Jenna spoke about your anniversary, your fights with Spinks. I’m wondering if you could tell us a little bit about your fight with Mike Tyson and generally what your thoughts were on Tyson as a champion following you? HOLMES: Well first of all let me just say this, when I fought Mike Tyson I didn’t fight Mike Tyson. I wasn’t even ready. I was two years off for Mike Tyson. I wasn’t out there training. I was singing and hanging out. I wasn’t really into fighting Mike Tyson. I had quit. Don King came to me and offered me $3.5 million. I said I might as well take the fight. I took the fight on short notice. They only gave me two months to get ready for the fight and then I fell short. Mike Tyson beat me, and after that I quit and went back to the things I was doing with the band and whatever. Then I told people how it was. Mike Tyson is going to be a great fighter but his mind is not going to be there to be a great fighter because he’s going to do anything and everything that he wants to do. I told people in five years or whatever he would be in jail, and everything I predicted and said about Mike Tyson came true. I mean I like Mike Tyson. I think he’s a good guy. I just think he needs to think about what he’s going to do before he does it. CIANI: Now Larry, we recently had Buster Douglas on the program here for an interview. What were your thoughts at the time when Buster beat Tyson and were you surprised by the results in that fight? HOLMES: No, I wasn’t surprised because Buster Douglas is a boxer. He used his jab and stayed on the outside. Mike Tyson never adjusted. He never fought anybody who was going to hit him back and when Buster Douglas hit him back I wasn’t surprised. Everybody else was. |
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