"When we're dead, we're dust. Absolutely nothing.... You're dead!... I want somebody to think about me when I'm gone? Who the fuck cares about me when I'm gone!"Mike Tyson definitely forgot he was talking to a kid while answering that question 😭pic.twitter.com/WDHvtoVnnj
— Happy Punch (@HappyPunch) November 14, 2024
November 15, 2024
"That is something that I have not heard before — someone say that," said the little girl to Mike Tyson.
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"Cattle die,
kinsmen die,
all men are mortal;
but words of praise will never perish
nor a noble name."
- Hávamál, verse78
With all due respect Mike, I disagree. P.S. Jake Paul is gonna mop the floor with you.
Classy.
"Who the fuck cares about me when I'm gone!" A little harsh when said to a young girl, but keeping it real. Which raises the Tyson Question: what good are fame and glory and success? Anything left in the ashes that we should care about beforehand?
Kid should get out more.
Why delay the inevitable?
Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face will long outlive him...
Spoken like a true Stoic. Mike is the new Marcus Aurelius.
I'm way ahead of you Mike. I don't give a fuck about you now. who are you, again?
I had no idea Mike Tyson was so considerate of others.
Was someone expecting raping, ear-biting Mike Tyson to be genteel, or something?
Mike knows Ecclesiastes.
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
Eccl 2:16
"For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!"
Tyson's head is in killer-space before a fight. The sometimes thoughtful Tyson you see in interviews in peace-time is on vacation. He is an old man about to fight for his reputation and his pride, he is going to suffer a lot, even if he wins. For him the universe reaches a point of no return in the ring. He does not care about what comes afterwards. The universe after the fight is dust and darkness, nothing. There is only the fight, there is only the punch in the mouth.
I was going to type something fine and poetic. Thanks a fucking lot, LG.
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeters, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conqueror rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown, and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.” – General George S. Patton, Jr.
Sic transit gloria mundi
How many little girls are fans of Mike Tyson and also have been able to navigate their lives to be in a position to interview him? She wasn’t expecting that answer, but she certainly wouldn’t have gotten it if he didn’t think she was ready to hear it.
BTW speaking of legacies, I heard Sylvester Stallone introduce president elect Donald Trump as the second George Washington, because of the impact his presidency will have.
Tyson's always been a lowlife scumbag bully and rapist. A real piece of shit that the younger generations of libtards just love because he's sells dope now and they lack any coherent sense of morality.
"she certainly wouldn’t have gotten it if he didn’t think she was ready to hear it."
Here's another Tyson apologist with a mind-reader's hot take. I'll give a different one: He's an immoral dirtbag with a vulgar mind and a convicted rapist's sense of propriety. Talking like that to a child is despicable. He's scum.
My thought exactly Dave. I was surprised to hear him say it. I would have guessed that he still had an overwhelming ego.
If you paint yourself white, you can return to Africa as an albino, and spend eternity as a mound of medicinal powder. You could do the same as an ornament in a Pride Parade, a bumper sticker, flying over a patio in a liberal state. A reproductive rites clinic can help your Planned final solution. A Green deal can be arranged to sequester your carbon pollutants. Just do it!
I wouldn't presume to have an opinion about this, but I really hope you are wrong. Also, I figure it's at least even money that the whole thing is as fake as WWE.
His life has gone through an arc. He was a hodlum as a younster, the greatest fighter ever (IMO), a felon who served jail time, still very wealthy, actor, world famous, married to an actress, divorced. DJT voter.
Good old Iron Mike. Reminds me of this Ditty in Tribute to Iron Mike
Mike Tyson is George Washington.
"Beyond here lies nothin'
Nothin' we can call our own"
Well, that was pre-Internet....
What adult thought it was a good idea to let an impressionable child interview a man with his history of violence? One could argue that it's a form of child abuse.
Perhaps Joyce Carol Oates could listen to this and let go of her futile Ozymandian desires.
Hitler worked hard for his legacy. As did many others.
I wasnt impressed.
Iron Man Mike has no fucks left to give.
Since this is an exhibition fight tonight, I assumed that the fighters were told to not try and hurt the other fighter, just put on a show. But if Mike is in this kind of mood, we might see something interesting. (Especially if Jake Paul isn't expecting to get hit really hard.)
But this might also be a part of the act to gin up the viewership.
Isn’t that the lisping rapist guy who bit somebody’s ear off?
Ah but those footprints that we leave in the sands of time!
Now explain this to Biden, who is still trying to craft his legacy beyond "worst president ever".
"But this might also be a part of the act to gin up the viewership."
Bingo. It made Althouse.
Pearls of wisdom, for those with ears to hear. Or those with those with ears left after fighting Mike Tyson.
"Well, that was pre-Internet...."
I used to believe that. There are sites that used to exist that no longer exist. I used to visit a site commemorating the 6985th Electronic Security Squadron of the 1970s and 80s. All the pictures, stories people shared, and evidence of what we did are gone. A few pictures show up on related sites but most are simply gone. Maybe they're archived in some government data base but I can't find them.
I like Mike.
Well said. Would have been better without the fucks - but they’re mandatory for fighters. In the contract.
The young loudmouth will obtain his comeuppance. Take it to teh bank!
^^What he said.^^
That wath ludicrouth !
Frank Zappa: On his legacy—from an interview recorded when he was ill, shortly before his death:
“It’s not important to be remembered.
The people who are worried about being remembered are guys like Reagan, Bush. These people want to be remembered. And they’ll spend a lot of money, and do a lot of work, to make sure that remembrance is just terrific!”
Interviewer: “And for Frank Zappa?”
''I don't care''
I don't take issue with those who characterize Tyson as a low class thug and rapist. That's what sometimes gives his words their impact. You don't look to Tyson as a source of wisdom, but there it is.......He's right about that legacy shit: You're rarely remembered for more than a few years after your death, and, of course, you yourself don't get to observe your legacy........The best way to have a lasting legacy is to kill a lot of people during your life. Genghis Khan, Alexander, Julius Caesar have inspired lots of movies and bios. I wonder who will be the preeminent mass murderer of the 20th Century. It looks like Hitler will get the nod over Stalin and Mao. That's kind of unfair to Stalin and Mao who killed far more people, but like everything else legacies are unfair.....Tyson might achieve lasting fame among his weight class. Who remembers the Brown Bomber? Ali is still celebrated, but soon the boomers will all have shuffled off this moral coil, and he'll pass into obscurity. Tyson, what with his rapes and ear biting, might be the heavyweight that posterity enshrines.
What humans are widely known today who lived more than 200 years ago? Not many at all. And lived 2000 years ago? Fewer still.
If you want a legacy that survives your death, better to produce a ton of children who also have a ton of children.
The girl handled it great. She has a better demeanor than the tv sports reporters who listen to the athlete’s with the Thank the Lord, If it Weren’t for Jesus Answers . . .
Existential Mike Tyson. The Salty Sartre
The girl handled it great. She has a better demeanor than the tv sports reporters who listen to the athlete’s with the Thank the Lord, If it Weren’t for Jesus Answers . . .
Existential Mike Tyson. The Salty Sartre
Were some weird funhouse lenses or angles used?
She looks like a little adult, and he looks pretty small himself, not like a heavyweight world champion.
Legacy is something that motivates people to act for others in place of a belief in an afterlife. Or at least it's supposed to be. Looking at people who actually do care about their legacy maybe it is all about ego.
…always accommodating
Thought he was about to riff into Ozymandias
I didn’t know Gloria was sick.
Tyson is stupid, you do know that.
More like Beavis.
Sporks.
Obviously the reason Tyson is shitting on his legacy is that he took a big payout to fight with a much younger man, Jake Paul, and he had a sinking feeling that he wasn't up to the fight.
See also Willie Mays.
Superstar athletes whose careers ended with a whimper.
Tyson didn't whimper but Jake Paul gets mad props for using Tyson's name and legacy and cashing in on it.
Tyson's legacy is why there was such a nice payday. People thought Tyson had a chance!
If he keeps going down this road, it's going to be really embarrassing. Like a Bruce Willis movie on a micro budget.
Or Joe Biden thinking he's got four more years.
Tyson got $20 million, so he's laughing at all the boo-birds.
Tyson may be uneducated, uncredentialed, without societal certification of intellect. But he knows enough to have gotten where he is, and is smart enough to have overcome his past well enough, to have what he has. Never confuse "rough" with "stupid." It will leave you looking, well, stupid.
Maybe this version of Washington: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA
Tonight's fight is fully sanctioned, not an exhibition. What that means to the participants' plans for the outcome is not clear, and won't be until Tyson punches Paul in the face.
He also starred in a cartoon sort of like Scooby Doo, Mike Yson Mysteries. Life is strange, and getting stranger all the time.
That was the best thing I've seen on the Internet in a while! I don't fully agree with what he said, but I love how he didn't try to BS the kid with bromides and banalities.
He's the guy who once said that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. The girl just experienced the rhetorical equivalent of that.
Welcome to the world of grown ups, kid!
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