Essay on Satire of Mike Tyson's Biting the Ear of Evander Holyfield

Mike Tyson was on top of the world, winning the WBC boxing title in 1986 at age 20 (“Sports”). Although Tyson is acclaimed to be one of the best boxers to ever live, he had a dark side to his character. Much like Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter, Tyson was, in a way, was publicly shunned.Something they both share in common is what they were punished for. It could be said both were shunned because of committing adultery. Tyson’s hyper aggressiveness led to many runs-in with the law and being suspended from boxing.

The ultimate goal of a boxing match is a knock out. The knockout punch brings satisfaction to the winner of the boxing math and the crowd. This one punch can make a fight exciting. However, if there is not a knockout punch, the fight is often times dull. After a knockout punch, one man loses consciousness while the other man dances around the ring raising his hands in victory and is swarmed by his coaches and the press. Oates continues to argue that boxing is the cruelest sport by comparing a boxing match to a tragedy. If a fight has no knock out by the end, it seems like the fight is missing something. The knockout punch is a cruel but key aspect to boxing which makes people love

Millions of people worldwide take part as spectators to the sport of prize fighting: better known as boxing. In a 1962 essay entitled “Who Killed Benny Paret?” the author, Norman Cousins, writes about the dangers that come with the sport of boxing. He especially talks about a match that resulted in the death of a boxer named Benny Paret. Cousins argues that boxing is just a show of violence and that boxers put themselves in the ring just for the simple purpose of entertaining a crowd. Even though investigations reflect the role of the referee, Paret’s manager, and the doctor’s examinations as the main cause of Paret’s death, Cousins blames Paret’s death on the people that attends boxing matches to see a man get hurt or knockout because he

Boxing, an official sanctioned sport in the early 20th century, is a sport that is known as one of the most violent and physically demanding sports on the earth. Professional boxers that get paid to fight must be in top shape in order to preform at the highest level. Being a professional boxer is a tough life. Boxers train hard for many months leading up to one fight and either win, lose, knock out the opponent or even get knocked out. The sport has been around for centuries, but has most recently taken off over the last 100 years. It is a multibillion dollar industry with fighters taking home hundreds of thousands of dollars if not even millions of dollars for big matches. In his novel Papa Jack, Roberts tells the story of the famous African American boxer Jack Johnson. He details the boxers rise to fame and fortune and his downward spiral that would soon follow. In Papa Jack, Roberts displays life of a professional boxer through firsthand accounts with events that happened during Johnson’s life and shows how boxing not only influenced his life but also how he influenced the African American community.

“You hear certain things, negative things, all the time that aren 't true, but you never hear about the positive,” This quote resembles Floyd Mayweather 's life. His family really loves the sport of boxing, and Mayweather loved being in the gym with the gloves on his hands. The life of crime started to take over for Mayweather 's parents. Mayweather’s talent inside the ring was amazing, and a great is what Mayweather turned into he shined in the ring. Mayweather proves to be one of the greatest with a record of 49-0 which is the second best without a loss to 51-0-1.

Boxing - a violent cage fight, or a crowd pleasing sport? Boxing is a high intensified sport that can be seen as helping the fighter in life or permanently damaging the fighters future. Many say that boxing is one of the safest sports; however, boxing can leave permanent brain damage from constant punches to the skull. The sport boxing is for managers to earn money while their fighter is in the ring fighting against another human until one gives up, or gets knocked out. A fight could be the end of one’s career, or even one’s life. Boxing should be banned because the money earned does not trump the risk of death, the mixed messages from fighters in the ring confuse the laws regarding assault, and the constant punches to and athletes head leaves permanent damage.

Boxing in the 1960’s was one of the biggest sources of entertainment to most American’s. Back in the 60’s one could compare a heavyweight championship fight to our modern day super bowl. If American’s didn’t have a television, they would be standing by their radios listening. Unfortunately during the same time period race relations were at an all-time low. Boxing was integrated, although black boxers were still under pressure to conform to white America’s social limitations. One man stayed true to himself, so that others would find courage to do the same.

Sixty years ago in a small town in rural Minnesota, there lived a rowdy young man by the name of Jack Smith. He had a very obsolete personality and could easily instigate a fight with anyone he met. By the age of seventeen, Jack had already been expelled from high school due to a myriad of reasons that included numerous fights. However, the final straw was when he hit a teacher in a fit of rage after Mr. Robencraw insulted his intelligence for failing yet another quiz due to his extreme procrastination. For years he wandered around Minnesota, a vagabond with no purpose in life. But that was until he met the legendary boxing trainer Rob Rammers , whose famous saying was scurry like a spider, sting like a scorpion. Meeting Mr. Rammers changed Jack's life completely. Under Mr. Rammers training Jack became a truly great boxer and soon, Rammers decided that it was time to take the world by storm. During his first fight, Jack was up against another powerful newcomer that was well documented and was the favorite for the fight. Jack was booed when e went into the ring, but he quickly quelled the crowd by delivering an instant knockout with his devastating right, and because of that right fist, he was thenceforth known as Bazooka Jack. His success did not

Cousins provides that the nature of prize boxing itself is the main factor. He first bring up the style of the fighting that prizefighting consist of. Cousin makes the point that the proponents of the boxing “searched for killers and sluggers and maulers” as opposed to boxers skilled with the technical aspects of pugilism. He links this with fatalities by stating that although a man can take a punch repeated impacts will cause damage and has a risk of killing the man being stuck. Next he also loops the fans into the nature of boxing.

(Calder-Smith, 2004) During the next decade, Tyson was sentenced to six years for the rape of a model. His wife divorced him for alleged domestic violence, and he lost his boxing licence for biting his opponent’s ear during a boxing match. (Gutteridge & Giller, 1996)

Evander Holyfield was a professional boxer who was nearly unbeatable. After getting disqualified in the Olympics, for knocking out his opponent after the referee said stop, Holyfield beat Buster Douglas in 1984. In 1888 he won in the Cruiserweight championship. Two years later in 1990 he beat Buster Douglas in the heavyweight title. He took a five year break after that fight. In 1995 Mike Tyson challenged him and he accepted. Evander Holyfield won in a judge's decision to regain the title. Once again in 1997 Mike called for a rematch. This time was a lot more interesting because Holyfield was winning and Tyson got frustrated and bit off Holyfield's ear. Of course Evander won

“[...]the fight went to a split decision. Predictably, the winner was Cassius Clay(Lipsyte pg 15).” After that the crude bad crowd-pleasing slugger, Cassius soon became a regular on Tomorrow's Champions, and a neighborhood celebrity. With his neighborhood and fans, he went out to get the heavyweight crown. “And so the callout for the handsome young fighter to rescue the heavyweight crown, to snatch it away from the monster and bring it back to the light(Lipsyte pg 36).” Clay now set his course for a championship with the new heavyweight king, Sonny Liston. Ali, wit over confidents, said,”If listen beats me, the next day I'll be on the sidewalk hollering”No man beats me twice,” I’ll be screaming for a rematch.” Listen was convinced clay wa crazy, and a local boxing commission doctor reported that his pulse was an abnormally high, 120 because clay was “scared to death.” clays never quit attitude brought him the victory.” [...] as the referee raised Clay’s hand in triumph.”(Lipsyte pg 46) Ali’s rude and over confident attitude made him a mean and undefeatable champion. On a bouth he said,”I’m through talking,” said the new heavyweight champion of the world,” all I have to do is be a nice, clean,

Cassius clay, one of the world’s most distinguished boxers, was born in Louisville, Kentucky on January 7, 1942. Clays work ethic was apparent even in the early years of his life. As a child, he raced the school bus to school each morning. His friends would wave to him as the lead fluctuated based on the school bus’ stops. This work ethic extended to the classroom. Because of a learning disability, Clay had to work extra hard in school to not fall behind. Clay grew up with racial segregation all around him. These injustices sparked a passion in him to change the way people viewed African Americans: “I wanted to show that color didn’t matter”(Muhammad Ali: An American Legend). Clay’s boxing career began because of an incident when he was 12 years old. He and a friend rode their bikes to the Columbia Auditorium for The Louisville Home Show. When they were ready to go home, Clay discovered that his bike was stolen. Filled with rage, Clay wanted to retaliate. He found police officer, Joe Martin, who told him, “You better learn how to fight before you start challenging people that you’re gonna whoop” (Hauser 18). Martin became his coach, and although Clay never found the thief, he found a love of boxing that would continue throughout his life. Between the ages of 12 and 18, Clay

Boxing, also known as pugilism, is a very old and famous type of combat sport which was invented few centuries BC. It is an ever-changing sport which develops into different styles through time and it is regarded as one of the most popular and exciting types of sports nowadays. Some people make it their profession and fight for prizes, and money while some enjoy it as a hobby and a way to be physically active and have a healthy lifestyle. As it is a very entertaining kind of sport and it is part of the Olympic Games, the sport has garnered many fans worldwide. A lot of people prefer watching it and following championships and different athletes.

boxing. Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker thinks so. Walkers stated in an interview, “People shy