'The bell for the first round can toll like doom for any fighter who does not feel installed properly in his role, but for Tyson that first bell was the sound of heaven. He came out like a mortar shell.' Norman Mailer on Mike Tyson, from 1988:
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - JANUARY 22: Boxer Iron Mike Tyson in his prime at Tyson vs Holmes Convention Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey January 22 1988. As an arena for boxing, the Convention Hall at Atlantic City is not one of the happier architectural palaces of the world. It drops the kind of pall an audience that would come from witnessing a cock-fight in a bank. Lyndon Johnson was nominated there in 1964 with two identical sixty-foot close-up photographs of himself on either side of the podium.
Spinks came into the ring wearing white trunks. He was a much-respected fighter. He had won thirty-two fights and lost none. He had been light-heavyweight champion and moved up in weight to fight Larry Holmes, taking the heavyweight championship from Holmes by decision and keeping it in the return bout. He had knocked out Gerry Cooney in five rounds. He was an artfully awkward fighter who tried never to do the same thing twice, and he had been the underdog in many of his undefeated fights.
People were subdued on their way out of the arena. The boxing fan is there to be had, and knows it. Part of the pleasure is to get taken. Boxing fans are bitter people, and the virtue of being cheated from time to time is that it confirms one’s lowest estimate of the world. Half of the great and most ballyhooed fistic encounters offer disappointment. Post-depression in Convention Hall, however, was deep. The heavyweight division now had nowhere to go.
Butch Lewis sent his brother to see what could be done about the wrapping on Tyson’s gloves. The brother found a welt in the tape. Before the screaming back and forth was over, Tyson began to pound the wall with his gloves. The separation between controlled violence and blind rage is, therefore, sacrosanct to a great fighter. He must generate hostility for his opponent . But he must also allow no more emotion to arise than he can control. It is equal to saying: the furies of a psychopath are to be brought under executive action. We are obviously near the advanced course in martial arts.
Occasionally, a particularly violent, ingrown, inarticulate, and greatly disturbed black or Hispanic would come along for whom D’Amato could be father, high priest, and the spirit of even-handed justice. Floyd Patterson, Buster Mathis, and Mike Tyson are three examples.
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