{"id":132582,"date":"2015-03-11T12:20:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=132582"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:44:51","slug":"mike-tyson-got-old-soon-smart-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/mike-tyson-got-old-soon-smart-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson: &#8216;I got old too soon and smart too late&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tvd8nGcZAfA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>With a new film coming out (see above), former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson is opening up and talking about his career.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/film\/mike-tyson-mark-twain-quoting-history-buff-i-got-old-too-soon-and-smart-too-late-5426557\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LAWeekly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Mark Twain said boxing is the only sport where a slave, if he&#8217;s successful, can rub shoulders with royalty,&#8221; says former heavyweight Mike Tyson, who once knocked out 19 opponents in a row. &#8220;Can you imagine that? Just by fighting another human being, he can meet a king, a prince, a queen, eat at the same table with them, be invited to the castle.&#8221; Or in modern times, make $30 million in one fight, build your own castle, stock it with tigers and still wake up every morning the pawn of powerful men who make money off your sweat.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Since the beginning of time, it was the lowest sport in the history of entertainment, and it always made the most money,&#8221; Tyson tells the L.A. Weekly. &#8220;But the participants were worse when they finished than when they started. Only difference is now people know their names.&#8221; And these fighters were men like him: people with few options and little education, be they war captives in 65 B.C., African slaves in 1795, Irish immigrants in 1893 or a battered 9-year-old boy in &#8217;70s Brooklyn, forced to rob houses to buy clothes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Extraordinary fighters come from the financial quagmire of poverty,&#8221; Tyson explains. &#8220;We&#8217;re the bottom of the barrel in society.&#8221; No wonder that when they do earn cash, they have no idea what to do with it except prove, sports car by sports car, how far they&#8217;ve come.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Meanwhile, boxers often trust the wrong advisers and ask the wrong financial questions, not even knowing what the right questions are. &#8220;A lot of skulduggery is happening on the part of the managers, the promoters \u2014 these people are taking advantage of fighters with impunity,&#8221; says Tyson, who himself sued Don King for $100 million. (The case was settled out of court for $14 million.) When a boxer&#8217;s body weakens, he fights cheaper and more humiliating fights until he&#8217;s forced to retire, often alone and broke. &#8220;It&#8217;s almost like selling flesh, real flesh,&#8221; Tyson says. &#8220;If he dies, they get another one.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He sighs. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t understand me 15 years ago. I got old too soon and smart too late.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new film coming out (see above), former heavyweight boxing champion of the world Mike Tyson is opening up and talking about his career. 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