In an interview with OLBG.com<\/a>, Tyson\u2019s former trainer Teddy Atlas shared his verdict on the controversial match-up between \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 and Mayweather, suggesting that his mentor Cus D\u2019Amato would not be happy if it was to indeed go ahead.<\/p>\n\u201cI think Cus would have said, \u2018You better not be doing it because you figure you don\u2019t have enough money.\u2019 I think that\u2019s the first thing he would have said, because I think that\u2019s probably what I would say.<\/p>\n
\u201cCus might have reminded Tyson that he used to look up to the old fighters and he read about them and watched their films. Tyson always admired the old fighters, it was a big part of his education in boxing, and his thirst for boxing, his love for it, his passion for it. Looking up to these guys, Jack Dempsey Henry Armstrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cCus would say, probably, \u2018This would not be part of what they represent it? Why would you want it to be what you represent?\u2019 There\u2019s nothing wrong with what Tyson and Floyd are doing, it\u2019s making money, it\u2019s entertainment, but it\u2019s not the entertainment Cus would have understood.<\/p>\n
Although Cus always had an eye for innovation, he did. But this one, he might say, \u2018Are you sure that you want some kids that have never seen you fight, to remember you for this, rather than going to film and remembering you for what you are?’\u201d<\/p>\n
Tyson looked a shadow of his once formidable self when he faced Paul last year, just under 20 years on from the shock defeat that he suffered to tough Irishman Kevin McBride in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legendary American duo Mike Tyson and Floyd Mayweather were reported to share the ring with each other in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-230818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}