'Their job is to kick my ass. If they don’t kick my ass, they’re fired.' Mike Tyson tells story of how he dealt with one of the toughest sparring partners he encountered
: “When I was training I would do eight rounds [of sparring], but as the fight got closer we would go to 12 rounds.
“The guy that gave me the most problems who I normally go in first with, I’d take him last now so he’d really push me.“That’s just how it goes when you’re preparing for a fight like this.”He continued: “When you’re in training, you’re in the gym, then this guy walks in, ‘This n***a again? F***.’“This guy from Atlantic City, he would beat my ass every day.“One day I hit him and knocked him cold.
“Then everybody’s talking about how I knocked this guy cold, ‘Oh he’s knocking out sparring partners.’Getty - Contributor“That one knockout I got, but he’s kicked my ass for three months.“There’s just some sparring partners that can beat anybody in the world in the gym. “But if he goes into a real fight with the lights, people eating popcorn and drinking beer, he freezes.“He’d have been champion. But it’s just something about it, that’s why he’s not champion.”
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