Don King, on Mike Tyson


"Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?
He went to prison, not to Princeton."



"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music
and the dancers hit each other."

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Richard Pryor on boxing





https://youtu.be/vCvMIWmdqTU

Richard Pryor Live - Wanted + video (1978)
Leon Spinks/ Muhammad Ali / Keeping in Shape

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Shaun Assael



Shaun Assael
@shaunassael
Author, "The Murder of Sonny Liston: Las Vegas, Heroin And Heavyweights." Now a feature documentary on
Showtime.
New Yorkshaunassael.comJoined February 2009


Shaun Assael

http://shaunassael.com/

Shaun Assael is an American author and award-winning investigative journalist. He is the author of four books that deal with sports, crime and culture. 


Wikipedia


Shoulda, short for should have (and not should of, which lexies call a variant but I call a mistake), carries a sense of correctness or obligation; coulda implies a possibility, and woulda denotes conditional certainty, an oxymoron: the stated intent to have taken an action if only something had not intervened. 






https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_Assael









Friday, August 19, 2022

Oleksandr Usyk’s outfit for the Anthony Joshua rematch weigh-in

 AJ had his moments that would look good on a highlight reel.  Ustk had 350 amateur fights and learned how to win rounds,  He does superhuman things to avoid punches and to throw counters.  He is a study in "hit and don't get hit".




Oleksandr Usyk’s outfit for the Anthony Joshua rematch weigh-in…

Sunday, August 14, 2022

The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups






The Power of Practice: Lessons From 10 Years of Pushups  
- Emily Saul 



https://youtu.be/hngDhaD6UaY

This talk by Emily Saul, Sport Psychology + Performance Coach, explores the lessons that she learned from 10 years of practicing pushups, every day. 

She introduces the value of having a practice: an ongoing and consistent relationship with a repeated action, like she has through pushups. 

This practice, in the form of habit, routine, and/or ritual creates a space for learning, for developing personal growth, and for positively impacting mental and physical health, meaning and purpose, and ability to overcome challenge. 

The talk offers five of the most relevant and applicable lessons for building a practice of your own.  

Sport Psychology + Performance Coach, Licens
ed Mental Health Counselor. Founder of E Saul Movement



THE 5 TOP LESSONS LEARNED

1. Let obstacles become opportunities: resistance and challenges are not bad - they are opportunities to learn
2. Not doing something perfectly does not mean you are failing: every little step/ every rep is part of a bigger goal
3. Motivation is directly related to meaning: frame your challenge around something that has purpose in your life.
4. If you want to keep doing something make it regular and give it structure: And if you want to keep enjoying something make it unusual and give it variety
5. There is a version of impressive things that works for you: if there is something that inspires you and has meaning for you practice being good at it day after day





Thursday, August 4, 2022

Every Little Step with Mike Tyson & Wayne Brady





Every Little Step with Mike Tyson & Wayne Brady


Tiger Flowers - The Georgia Deacon and the Mysterious Death of a Boxing Manager




 

Tiger Flowers - The Georgia Deacon and the Mysterious Death of a Boxing 

Manager


https://youtu.be/PSzF-qInJuc



Rosie Perez, Actress | Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson






World renown actress Rosie Perez sat down with Mike Tyson & CEO of Tyson 2.0 Adam Wilks in the #Hotboxin studio. In this episode, the trio spoke about: growing up in the hood, street fights, Errol Spence Jr. vs. Terence Crawford, Anthony Joshua Vs. Oleksandr Usyk, Canelo Vs. GGG, Canelo's loss to Dmitry Bivol, Mike talks about biting Evander Holyfield's ear, Rosie gets a gun pulled on her and Mike comes to the rescue?! 

https://youtu.be/DWldiD5bq_M








Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Bill Maher, HBO "Real Time with Bill Maher" | Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson





Former host of "Politically Incorrect," comedian, actor, and political commentator Bill Maher sat down in the #Hotboxin studio with Mike Tyson and co-host Sebastian Joseph-Day. In this episode, the trio debated: God/religion, the Black Lives Matter movement, police brutality, gun control, and transgender athletes in sports. Mike also talks about having sex with his GED teacher in prison, and Bill explains why he'll never get married. You do not want to miss this episode. 

https://youtu.be/jZK_O2iec5A




Tuesday, August 2, 2022

As combat sports grow in popularity, ringside physicians grapple with the precarious ethics of their role.



Many physicians, as well as the American Medical Association and the World Medical Association, have called for the elimination of sanctioned combat sports. “We need to spread the word that brain-bashing is not a socially acceptable spectator sport,” Dr. Stephen Hauser, a neurologist at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote in 2012 in the medical journal Annals of Neurology.

For those who opt to be involved, the A.R.P. has created a standardized set of instructions and recommendations to remove some of the ambiguity of ringside medicine. The group has certified more than 100 doctors across 34 states and 11 countries since its founding.

But once the bell sounds, every ringside physician is alone, charting a calculus of risk, harm and entertainment. 

“You cannot become a fan,” Dr. Sethi said. “You stop it too late, and the damage is already done.”



While ringside physicians are required at every sanctioned combat sport event in America, some doctors and medical groups think their presence promotes unsafe behavior.
Credit...Bee Trofort for The New York Times



Source:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/29/health/mma-combat-sports-doctors.html



Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E.




Carmen Basilio 


From a medical standpoint, each time a fighter is hit in the head, he or she risks a brain bleed that can kill within minutes. And repeated trauma can result years later in chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., which can cause aggressive behavior, depression and eventually dementia.