Currently, the last opponent to play Mike Tyson in the ring, and the last to beat him so far, is Kevin McBride from Ireland. Recently, in an interview with the Post, McBride recalled in detail some of the details of his defeat of Tyson.
McBride's 2005 confrontation with Tyson, who was already yesterday's yellow flower, was staged at the MCI Center in Washington, D.C., where in 2004, Tyson was brutally knocked down by Briton Danny Williams, so the confrontation with McBride was seen as a battle of redemption and also considered an easy contest, mainly because McBride was generally positioned as a parallel cargo.
However, Tyson's choice of McBride proved to be a mistake, and to be more precise, he really couldn't compete with others, and after six rounds of competition, the breathless Tyson had no choice but to give up the game.
McBride said: "I was dancing in the ring and feeling happy, at the same time, I knew it wasn't really Tyson who had been beaten, and that night I confronted this man and won. ”
McBride confessed that before he competed with Tyson, he simulated how to beat his opponents almost every night. Before the game, McBride was seen as a seriously weak team, and eventually he went all out to surpass Tyson, a heavyweight legend, McBride said that one of his strategies at that time was to smile as soon as he was hit by Tyson, indicating that he was not hurt by Tyson, so that after five rounds of competition, although Tyson was in the lead on the referee's scorecard, McBride was getting braver and braver, and he found that Tyson was very impatient and had lost his mind.
McBride said: "I remember when I hit Tyson in the sixth round, he became powerless and I said to Tyson in secret, is this all you have? You're in trouble! As a result, Tyson grabbed my left arm and tried to break it, but I eventually surrendered to him. ”
In addition, psychological games are also a major strategy when McBride confronts Tyson, who was 39 at the time, not so much in the game, but rather to fight to pay off debts, he is no longer a real boxer. According to McBride coach Parker Collins, McBride had a bad habit of drinking at the time, but in order to prepare for Tyson, they went all out in training for 10 weeks, and on the night of the big fight, Collins supervised Tyson to put on the boxing holster, and found that Tyson's hands were shaking, collins was very happy, telling McBride that he would definitely win, because Tyson was in fear.
Although he defeated Tyson, McBride did not jump on the first-line field for long, after all, he was only a third-rate boxer, and then in 2006, McBride once planned to challenge the new WBO heavyweight boxer Ryakovich, but unfortunately the game did not take shape, and then McBride was beaten back to his original form by many boxers, and finally ended his career.