Mike Tyson decided that he’d had enough and threw in the towel during his boxing match with Irishman Kevin McBride.
The momentum had turned against Tyson as McBride was beginning to give back what Tyson had been giving him in the first three rounds of the boxing match. During the fifth round, Tyson seemed to forget about boxing and focused on breaking McBride’s arm, below-the-belt shots, and a head-butt to McBride, opening up a cut near McBride’s left eye.
After the fifth round ended, Tyson (barely) returned to his corner and stayed there, telling the referee that he’d had enough. Afterwards, Tyson said that he “didn’t have the stomach for it anymore.”
Tyson had become more of a circus actor in recent years instead of a boxer. His antics in the ring, outside of the ring, and his press conferences were signs that the once-dominant boxer was gone for good. The fire had gone out of him some time ago; it was painful to watch Tyson’s transformation from the world’s most dominant boxer to his current status. He's a convicted felon and boxing was his one hope to recover from fiscal ruin and recover lost glory.
If Tyson is done with boxing for good, there’s always a possibility that he’ll return to the WWE and take up professional wrestling. But given his inability to stay out of trouble, Tyson might have a hard time convincing Vince McMahon that he’ll toe the line and do what Vince tells him to do. McMahon also won't want to pay as much as Tyson would probably want.
Tyson’s huge debts (nearly $40 million) will influence how much he would want if he tried a WWE run. The questions being asked in the sports world are: what will Mike Tyson do now? And is he really done with boxing?
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