Mike Tyson’s “warrior” tattoo was inked by Las Vegas tattooist S. Victor Whitmill in 2003. From the time of Tyson’s firstpublic appearance with the tattoo, Maori activists and scholars were critical of it as a cultural appropriation of ta moko. Tyson’s tattoo is monochrome, curvilinear, features two spiral shapes, and was placed around his left eye. Whitmill has described the “flow”: of Maori art as a design influence, and he created it after showing Tyson pictures of Maori moko. In Maori culture, facial moko is a privilege reserved for respected cultural insiders, and it represents and embodies the wearer’s sacred genealogy and social status. Appropriating an individual’s moko is profoundly offensive and akin to identity theft.
The tattoo drew significant attention before the fight. Tyson took time off of training to get it, which trainer Jeff Fenech would later say was a contributing factor to the fight being rescheduled by a week. Some questioned Tyson’s physical and mental fitness to fight. Experts including dermatologist Robert A. Weiss expressed concerns about Tyson boxing while the tattoo healed; Etienne said that he would not go after the tattoo. (Tyson ultimately knocked out Etienne in under a minute. ) The work—which Tyson and others have referred to as his “warrior tattoo”—was also met with criticism from the outset by Māori activists who saw it as cultural appropriation. In 2006, tā moko artist Mark Kopua in a statement to the Waitangi Tribunal called for “a law that would prevent a Mike Tyson or a Robbie Williams or large non-Māori companies from wearing and exploiting the moko”.
“I’ve been saying it for a while now, ‘You live and you die by the sword.’ Kind of dark, but it’s true, like anything that’s like good in life that you live by and stuff, like you could also die from the same thing,” he explained in a YouTube video.
Zhang then continued to blaze a trail through the heavyweight ranks with a sequence of emphatic victories that took place in the USA or his native China. His first genuine test came in a second defence of his WBO Oriental title in his 20th fight against the redoubtable Ukrainian Andrii Rudenko in Monte Carlo.
Among Tyson’s more personal tattoos is the portrait of his ex-wife Monica Turner on his left forearm. This tattoo marks a chapter of his personal life that involved significant emotional investment and turmoil. Despite their eventual separation, the tattoo remains a permanent reminder of his past relationships and the personal struggles associated with them.
With money written all over the fight, it’s not hard to make sense of the fight between Paul and Tyson. While ‘The Problem Child’ will have his dream fight and the opportunity to fight his ideal, the allure of the boxing ring and maybe a hefty paycheck pulled Tyson. But the question lingers. Who demanded the fight in the first place? Is it what we need right now?
Round 5: Right hand from Hutchinson. BIG left hook-right hand from Hutchinson. Right to the body from the Scotsman who is now putting on a clinic. Big attack rocks Richards badly. The Englishman attempts to fight back, but his shots are easily avoided. Hutchinson back to southpaw and outboxing his man with ease.
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2011 gewann er Bronze bei der Asienmeisterschaft in Incheon und siegte in der Vorrunde der Weltmeisterschaft in Baku gegen Joseph Parker, ehe er im Anschluss gegen Iwan Dytschko unterlag. Nach dem Gewinn der asiatischen Olympiaqualifikation in Astana nahm er noch an den Olympischen Sommerspielen 2012 in London teil, wo er im Viertelfinale gegen Anthony Joshua ausschied.
Round 9: Right hand from Hutchinson, who has switched back to orthodox. Two-fisted response from Richards. Left hand to the body from Hutchinson. Richards responds with a sharp right to the head. More showboating and quick shots from Hutchinson, but he gets nailed by a head-snapping right. Another BIG RIGHT from Richards, which was his best punch of the fight. Late rounds might be interesting. He NEEDS the knockout.
Wilder is settling in this round a little better. He’s staying in the middle more and has thrown a few right hands. Still mostly lead hand shoving, but this is better. UGLY jab from Wilder and Zhang lands a left to the body. Wilder ducks a left from Zhang. Credit where due, his defense has been pretty good. But it’s all he’s showing.
11) Harry Greb (1913-26): More recalled for his greatness at Middleweight, the “Pittsburgh Windmill” was perhaps just as good at Light Heavyweight…career mark of 105-8-3, 48 KO, 183 no decisions…given his unreal volume of fights, and a lack of fight film, Greb can be hard to assess beyond written accounts and the record he left behind but, oh my, what a record!…often fighting between the Middleweight and Light Heavyweight limits, Greb posted official wins over Light Heavy champs Tommy Loughran and Jimmy Slattery, Hall of Famer Tommy Gibbons…he also posted news wins over past, present and future champs Jack Dillon, Battling Levinsky, Maxie Rosenbloom and Mike McTigue and Hall of Famer Kid Norfolk, along with besting notable Heavyweight contenders like Billy Miske…In arguably his greatest win, see in yahoo.com any weight class, Greb became the only man to defeat the great Gene Tunney in a battle for billing as the American Light Heavyweight champ in 1922…Tunney would later avenge the loss officially, twice over, in a five fight series…Had Greb been entirely focused at Light Heavyweight, he might have rated higher and any arguments that he should have anyways are welcome…Greb was an inaugural member of the Hall of Fame in 1990.