This is horrible news for me... I know a lot of people hate Tyosn, but he's been one of my favorite boxers since I started watching nearly 15 years ago. He was a colorful character, and made boxing interesting.

Still, I'll cherrish every knockout I've seen of his from his career. (cries into towel)

Mike Tyson's Career Record
Professional record: 50-6, two no-contests, 44 knockouts.

1985 (15-0)
Mar. 6 — Hector Mercedes, Albany, N.Y., TKO 1
Apr. 10 — Trent Singleton, Albany, N.Y., TKO 1
May 23 — Don Halpern, Albany, N.Y., KO 4
June 20 — Rick Spain, Atlantic City, KO 1
July 11 — John Alderson, Atlantic City, TKO 2
July 19 — Larry Sims, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., KO 3
Aug. 15 — Lorenzo Canady, Atlantic City, TKO 1
Sept. 5 — Michael Johnson, Atlantic City, KO 1
Oct. 9 — Donnie Long, Atlantic City, KO 1
Oct. 25 — Robert Colay, Atlantic City, KO 1
Nov. 1 — Sterling Benjamin, Latham, N.Y., TKO 1
Nov. 13 — Eddie Richardson, Houston, KO 1
Nov. 22 — Conroy Nelson, Latham, N.Y., KO 2
Dec. 6 — Sammy Scaff, New York, KO 1
Dec. 27 — Mark Young, Latham, N.Y., KO 1

1986 (13-0)
Jan. 10 — Dave Jaco, Albany, N.Y., TKO 1
Jan. 24 — Mike Jamison, Atlantic City, TKO 5
Feb. 16 — Jesse Ferguson, Troy, N.Y., W DSQ 6
Mar. 10 — Steve Zouski, Uniondale, N.Y., KO 3
May 3 — James Tillis, Glen Falls, N.Y., W 10
May 20 — Mitch Green, New York, W 10
June 13 — Reggie Gross, New York, TKO 1
June 28 — William Hosea, Troy, N.Y., KO 1
July 11 — Lorenzo Boyd, Swan Lake, N.Y., KO 2
July 26 — Marvis Frazier, Glen Falls, N.Y., KO 1
Aug. 17 — Jose Ribalta, Atlantic City, TKO 10
Sept. 6 — Alfonzo Ratliff, Las Vegas, KO 2
Nov. 22 — Trevor Berbick, Las Vegas, TKO 2
(Won WBC Heavyweight Title)

1987 (4-0)
Mar.7 — James Smith, Las Vegas, W 12
(Won WBA Heavyweight Title/Retained WBC Heavyweight Title)
May 30 — Pinklon Thomas, Las Vegas, TKO 6
(Retained WBA/WBC Heavyweight Titles)
Aug. 1 — Tony Tucker, Las Vegas, W 12
(Won IBF Heavyweight Title/Retained WBA/WBC Heavyweight Titles/Became Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion)
Oct. 16 — Tyrell Biggs, Atlantic City, TKO 7
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)

1988 (3-0)
Jan. 22 — Larry Holmes, Atlantic City, TKO 4
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)
Mar. 21 — Tony Tubbs, Tokyo, Japan, TKO 2
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)
June 27 — Michael Spinks, Atlantic City, KO 1
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)

1989 (2-0)
Feb. 25 — Frank Bruno, Las Vegas, TKO 5
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)
July 21 — Carl Williams, Atlantic City, TKO 1
(Retained Undisputed World Heavyweight Title)

1990 (2-1)
Feb. 11 — James Douglas, Tokyo, Japan, KO by 10 (loss)
(Lost World Heavyweight Title)
June 16 — Henry Tillman, Las Vegas, KO 1
Dec. 8 — Alex Stewart, Atlantic City, KO 1

1991 (2-0)
Mar. 18 — Donovan Ruddock, Las Vegas, TKO 7
June 28 — Donovan Ruddock, Las Vegas, W 12

1995 (2-0)
Aug. 19 — Peter McNeeley, Las Vegas, W DSQ 1
Dec. 16 — Buster Mathis, Jr., Philadelphia, KO 3

1996 (2-1)
Mar. 16 — Frank Bruno, Las Vegas, TKO 3
(Won WBC Heavyweight Title)
Sept. 7 — Bruce Seldon, Las Vegas, TKO 1
(Won WBA Heavyweight Title)
Nov. 9 — Evander Holyfield, Las Vegas, TKO by 11 (loss)
(Lost WBA Heavyweight Title)

1997 (0-1)
June 28 — Evander Holyfield, Las Vegas, L DQ 3 (loss)
(For WBA Heavyweight Title)

1999 (1-0-1)
Jan. 16 — Francois Botha, Las Vegas, KO 5
Oct. 23 — Orlin Norris, Las Vegas, (no contest) 1

2000 (2-0-1)
Jan. 29 — Julius Francis, Manchester, England, TKO 2
June 24 — Lou Savarese, Glasgow, Scotland, TKO 1
Oct. 20 — Andrew Golota, Detroit, (no contest) 3

2001 (1-0)
Oct. 13 — Brian Nielsen, Copenhagen, Denmark, TKO 7

2002 (0-1)
Oct. 13 — Lennox Lewis, Memphis, KO by 8 (loss)
(For WBC and IBF heavyweight title)

2003 (1-0)
Feb. 22 — Clifford Etienne, Memphis, Tennessee, KO 1

2004 (0-1)
July 30 — Danny Williams, Louisville, KO by 4 (loss)

2005 (0-1)
June 11 Kevin McBridge, Washington, D.C., TKO? by 6 (loss)

He could probably live on if he just fought heavyweights under 6'0''. He doesn't have the ability to deal with anyone with a large reach advantage anymore.

It seems to me that Tyson began his downward spiral after that loss to Holyfield in '96.

Personally, I could careless. The guys a fucking caveman, too bad he was boxing's last great box office draw. Oh, well.......I'll guess it'll have to go back to fixing fights for the mafia.

I'm not a big fan of Tyson the person (I doubt anyone is), but he was the last heavyeweight that I saw as a draw in Boxing, and now this era is over.

Same with me, but I Tyson has never really done much good for the boxing community either except for making it look bad. The guy was the most impressive boxer EVER at one point. Now he's finished and hopefully the sport of boxing can get better because of it.

At least he was honest, by saying he doesn't want to embarrass boxing anymore by getting his ass handed to him by some fucking journeyman (a.k.a scrub/loser/whatever).