I was a teenager when Mike Tyson came on the scene, and I loved him because I was very familiar with Jim Jacobs, who was on his management team. Jacobs owned a huge archive of fight films and they’d show them on TV every now and then. I loved these old fight films, was entranced by them.

So when Tyson emerged and was also passionate about those same fight films, he was like my guy. I loved him. But as he got more famous and fired his inner circle and moved onto Don King, I felt like he just wasn’t the same. Few other people saw it, but I could see signs of his decline as early as 1988. I could see he was getting lazy, that his technique was getting ragged, and that he could be frustrated in the ring. He was still racking up knockouts and winning fights easily, but he looked beatable to me.

I picked Michael Spinks to beat him, which turned out to be the worst sports prediction of my lifetime. Spinks was way too small and way too scared to last long in the ring with Tyson. When Buster Douglas beat him, I was as shocked as everybody else, but also felt like I saw it coming. I didn’t think Buster would be the guy to do it, but I felt strongly that somebody was going to take advantage of Tyson’s technical flaws sooner or later.

The Buster Douglas fight is still the most memorable sporting event of my lifetime. Second place for me is the Bill Buckner game, which I saw the end of on a school trip when I was 14. Turned on the TV and it was the Mets’ turn to bat in the bottom of the 10th down 2 runs.

did watch the mike tyson/buster douglas fight with mom…ma kept going on about how buster was going to do something special for his mom, i forgot what the story was at the time, she was sure of it though…

i kept saying how impossible it was…until it started happening…

I’ve been to the states a couple of times, New York twice when I was younger, Miami for work and San Francisco and San Diego to present my masters at a conference, but it’s been a while, last time was 2013, the height of the Melo era lol

have you visited the states?

if you could revisit a location – where would that be?

if you could visit a new to you location – where would that be?

the poor bills, folks from all over the world are familiar with their struggles from decades ago…

didn’t that kicker have trouble all year…green bay had a shaky kicker too…playoffs are a bad time for shaky kickers…