Tyson’s chilling message
Subject
Sports; Boxing
Description
Mike Tyson sent a chilling message to Lennox Lewis from his training camp in Hawaii yesterday as he prepares for their world heavyweight title fight on June 8th. “My main objective in the fight is to be a professional but to kill him.” The aim of the promoters, in all but name the American television companies HBO and Showtime, was to sell the fight and Tyson was only too happy to oblige in a way that left Britain’s leading promoter Frank Warren denouncing Tyson as “a total lunatic”.
Creator
John Rawling
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