your opponent has 8 wins and 8 knockouts. fight!

so it's 2 o'clock in the morning and the just showed a mike tyson fight from his early years. i already know all about it but i still find it absolutely hilarious. he was a machine. for one i noticed that the broadcast started and ended in half an hour. not even thinking, i figured that this must have been on of his post every-fight-was-a-first-round-knockout phase and they would just show his fight for the 30 minutes, but i was wrong. the first 20 minutes was the first fight on the card leaving 10 minutes for the tyson main event. haha i knew where this was going so i didn't look away cause i might have missed it. so they introduced him and his opponent, michael johnson, and they went at it. 20 seconds later, michael johnson was on his back. 8 counts later michael johnson was standing up, and groggy. 4 seconds later michael johnson was on his back again probably dreaming of the time he was riding his tricycle on the driveway. it was just that fast. how would you feel as a professional fighter, standing in the ring against a 19 year old that was 8-0 with 8 knockouts, 7 in the first round. i don't know about you but i would be pretty terrified, regardless. the best part was the post-fight interview. they had mike tyson in the ring, not even a drop of sweat i might add, with some boxing specialist, i didn't catch who he was. he was speechless. tysons trainer wants to get him experience but nobody lasts more than a round. a half round at that.

"we've got a huge problem here. we have a 19 year old that throws... hydrogen bombs."
"no one can take his punches so how can we get him any experience? anyone of those punches has the potential to knock out any professional fighter."
"this is a huge problem because any punch is a knockout punch. this is a huuge problem"
"finding sparring partners is extremely hard. it's hard to get him sparring partners nevermind opponents."

i hope michael johnson got paid well.

i have to get my hands on a dvd set of his first 20 fights.
too funny.