Word: tysons
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...this puts the commissioners in a delicate spot. Nevada Governor Bob Miller was on the phone to them last week. So were a lot of fight fans, pro and con Tyson. "This is the toughest thing I've ever had to deal with in my life," says commissioner Luther Mack. Enforcing civilized standards is never easy in a sport where acceptable behavior is to beat your opponent to a pulp, and where unacceptable behavior has never been bad for the gate. Holyfield himself once bit an opponent, "Jakey" Winters, during a Golden Gloves bout in 1980. Holyfield, who gnawed Winters...
Still, the commission is under pressure to hand down a meaningful penalty, if only to sustain the hope that boxing is an industry that can contain its own pollutants. But driving Tyson out of the ring for good at a time when boxing is desperately short of star power would be very bad for business. Even a diminished Tyson remains an invincible money magnet. The fight with Holyfield brought in a record 1.8 million viewer buys and $90 million in pay-per-view revenue for the cable channel Showtime. The previous record holder? Tyson's previous fight with Holyfield...
...instinct tells me there'll be continuing interest and curiosity about Tyson," Jay Larkin, a Showtime senior vice president whose instincts are hard to argue with, told USA Today. Nor will Holyfield rule out a return bout. "I wouldn't say never," he says...
...Tyson could be a bit like putting trade sanctions on China for human-rights abuses: if American companies can't enter the market, foreign competitors will. In an age of worldwide satellite broadcasts, Tyson can easily take his salable furies offshore, featuring himself in Thrillas from Manila for however long it pays. "We have to do what is best for the state of Nevada and for boxing," says commission chairman Elias Ghanem. It's a statement open to many interpretations...
...matter what Nevada decides, Tyson's career is in deep trouble. For the first two rounds of the return bout with Holyfield, Tyson was plainly and simply outboxed. And it wasn't the first time. Before he went to prison in 1992, and especially after his 1990 loss to Buster Douglas, the decline of his skills was the talk of the boxing world. What had made Tyson invincible was sheer power. When he couldn't cancel opponents within the first four rounds, he was out of ideas. When Tyson was in his mid-20s, a consensus was growing that...