“He failed all 5 times,” Mike Tyson’s first boxing trainer brutally trashes glorious career
When coach Teddy Atlas who shot at Mike Tyson alleges Tyson's inability to win real fights.
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Teddy Atlas is credited for helping Mike Tyson develop into an amateur boxer before the legendary Cus D’amato took over Tyson’s training. When Tyson was only 12 years old, he first met Atlas and eventually became his first trainer. When the future ‘Baddest Man On The Planet’ was only 15 years old, their relationship ended in an exceptionally painful event.
Since then Atlas and Tyson have never tried to mend their relationship. Atlas doesn’t like Tyson and has gone to the limits of discrediting the fighter from all his achievements. In an interview, Atlas mentioned that Tyson never had real tough fights in his career.
He said: “Tyson’s talent was so great, his physical ability was so overwhelming, his talent was so superior that the other stuff never got tested, he was blowing guys out, it never got tested if there was anything in the warehouse. To me, a fight is not a fight until there is any resistance, something to overcome, otherwise, it’s just an athletic venture, just an exhibition.”
“Five times, whatever the real record is, five times there was resistance, five times it became a real fight, five times there was something to overcome, and he failed all five times. He was only in five fights in his life, and he’s 0 in 5.” Tyson added.
According to Atlas, Tyson only had five chances where he had to prove his status and he lost all of them. Maybe Atlas is talking about Tyson’s fights with Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, etc where ‘Iron Mike’ failed miserably to win which shocked the fans back in the day.
The time when Teddy Atlas pulled a gun at a 15-year-old Mike Tyson
The rift between Teddy Atlas and Mike Tyson took place abruptly when Atlas confronted Tyson with a revolver and shot it close to his ear as a warning to never do it again after learning that Tyson had reportedly been sexually assaulting a family member. Atlas was once in an interview with ESPN and talked in detail about his encounter with Tyson after knowing the truth.
He said: “Tyson had gone after a family member who was 11 years old, a girl, and he had been pushing the boundaries more and more and more. It pushed it into one day, I come home, and I find out that my wife and sisters-in-law are crying because what he did to an 11-year-old girl in my family. Took him on his word for the things he wanted to do to the 11-year-old girl, in a sexual way…So I got a gun and went and confronted him.”
Tyson himself confirmed that story and mentioned Teddy was around 27 at that time when he pulled the gun at Tyson. The retired boxer also revealed that even when he was 13 he would have knocked out Atlas if he wanted to.
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