Report: "TEAM TYSON" vs "THE MEDIA

The Guru's BOXING ARCHIVE

Report clip on Mike Tyson's team and their relationship with the media.

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00:00Mike Tyson and Don King have been making headlines.

00:02Most of the press has been negative.

00:04Rumors continue about Tyson's training habits and his relationship with King.

00:08Team Tyson denies the accusations by the media.

00:11They believe they are being persecuted by the press and they want it to stop.

00:24They claim Mike Tyson has lost his fury.

00:30That he is a ticking bomb.

00:35And he has lost his fire.

00:41Oh, the right hand.

00:43I don't know if he'll be able to get up from this.

00:48It's just a matter of time.

00:49He's got it with a big tool hand right.

00:54Why do they say that Tyson, former street kid turned heavyweight champion,

00:58has turned back into a street kid, or maybe something worse?

01:14Believe it or not, Mike is human.

01:16He's going to basically be able to do what he wants to do, you know what I mean, be independent.

01:25I mean, also, you know what I mean, be financially independent where he doesn't have to, you know what I mean,

01:30go through the hardship that I did.

01:32That's why I take the punches and train for either and after.

01:34Criticism continues to mount against the former champion.

01:43Dean Tyson believes the media refuses to report the real story.

01:48Those people who write most of those articles that the public see does an injustice to those people.

01:57Because their real agenda of the major sports writers, boxing writers in this country,

02:03have their own agenda about what kind of message they want to get across.

02:07It's not the truth.

02:08And it's an injustice to the fans, to the American people who don't know no better,

02:13only know what they read.

02:15They claim Tyson is shielded by his tiny band of mercenaries

02:20and question the loyalty of his management team.

02:26We're pretty focused.

02:27You know, we keep everything in the proper perspective.

02:29You know, we do what we have to do,

02:31everything we have to do leading up into the fight.

02:34We carry ourselves in a professional manner.

02:36And we take it serious.

02:38It's our life.

02:39It's our job.

02:39It's our livelihood.

02:40So, you know, everything is riding on Mike.

02:43So we have to do everything we can to prepare him to go in the ring.

02:46Once he gets in the ring, he's on his own and he can handle it from there.

02:49The most damaging accusations center on Tyson's friendship with Don King.

02:57Charging the fighter hurled a toaster at King and later slapped him.

03:02Tyson and King is fighting.

03:04Tyson throwed a toaster at King.

03:06Tyson did this.

03:07Tyson did that.

03:08I'll be in New York, don't even be here,

03:09and I'm going through all these fracases because that's thickness of the imagination.

03:13They will print without recourse or without asking us what our side is,

03:18anything that would be detrimental to us.

03:21But they will not even print what is right when we tell it to them.

03:26And they know it's right, they'll let it go.

03:28But as you can see, one picture beats a thousand words.

03:31We love each other.

03:32It's unfortunate that y'all don't seem to believe what I say when I say it.

03:37You know what I mean?

03:37I love you, Mike.

03:39You love me, Mike?

03:40I love you.

03:41All right.

03:42Did you see that?

03:43You understand that?

03:45Can you believe your little eyes?

03:47If you're not involved with the media like yourself

03:50and don't understand it like the both of us do,

03:52the people, not being objective, they're able to buy anything

03:56because most of the people, I would say 90% of the people,

04:00believe actually what they see on the television

04:02and what they read in the paper.

04:04So they have no virtue of detecting what's true or not

04:08or what's hype or not.

04:09Whatever they say about him,

04:11whatever they criticize him to be,

04:13he is an urchin from the ghetto,

04:15a guy who came out with nothing.

04:17And now he's become a wealthy, rich man,

04:19but he's a loved man and a respected man

04:22because he did it the way you're supposed to do it,

04:25in the center of the ring.

04:26No pretense, no false affair, no kind of facade

04:31is what you see is what you get.

04:33And in the sport of boxing, that's his field,

04:35he's been superb.

04:36He's second to none.

04:38I want to thank generous of telling you the damn sport.

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