It didn't help. "I told his family, every time before any time I was involved, 'Mike won't get hurt, I'll be looking after him'," Fenech said. "He will do it, probably for charity, it will happen. “My main reason that I enjoyed it was because I knew he was nowhere near his prime, and nowhere near his best, and my job was to be his friend and just look after him.”. John Ibrahim and Jeff Fenech. This is also known as Online Behavioural Advertising. The ferocious spark that made him the youngest heavyweight champion in history was a distant memory. Mike Tyson's old trainer said the former heavyweight champion could knockout Deontay Wilder really easily if he returned to boxing today, aged 53. It put the Australian triple world champion, Tyson's trainer ahead of the Etienne fight, on an early flight home from Las Vegas. Fenech trained Tyson for the 2005 bout against Kevin McBride, a decent heavyweight who wouldn't have had a prayer against a prime 'Iron Mike'.
Fenech, who was taken off the streets and saved from a different life in his youth, took a number of young guys with him on trips in an attempt to keep them out of trouble. More than a decade later, that man seems long gone.
In the mid 2000s, he conclusively lost to lower tier opponents Danny Williams and Kevin McBride, athletes he wouldn't have needed to leave first gear to finish earlier in his career.
"I don't even know if I want to fight no more," Tyson said. Etienne whispered some advice in Tyson's ear after that fight in Memphis: to "stop bulls---ing".
He also runs a cannabis empire that brings in a million dollars a month. “ … All of a sudden my wife Suzee gets a phone call, and the school says, ‘Mrs.
Sonny Bill won't even fight Paul Gallen because I don't believe he can beat him.".
“[He] would help anybody.
Adrian Proszenko is the Chief Rugby League Reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald. If he hits Sonny Bill Williams or Paul Gallen, he will be up for manslaughter. He didn't want to fight.". My back is broken. I watched it at home.". Tyson also addressed the tattoo, with a disturbing conclusion. It put the Australian triple world champion, Tyson's trainer ahead of the Etienne fight, on an early flight home from Las Vegas. I would have congratulated him - I would have put it on my face myself! I'd been there six or seven weeks, training him, doing everything with him.
So, Ibrahim simply couldn’t turn Fenech down when the former world champion asked him to appear on his new Standing Eight podcast. So is ‘three-division world champion’.. Jeff Fenech has a claim to both, among a host of other things. "But our friendship was very, very strong after it. "I'd guarantee that if Mike Tyson trained for six weeks, he'd knock Wilder out in a minute," Fenech said. Williams was a decent heavyweight and nearly a decade younger than Tyson; yet even to the big Briton, it felt wrong. Despite not being paid for his work up until the tattoo, he returned for the heavyweight's final act.
My daughter then went to school [in Australia] – and she was young, like six or seven-years-old – and did a show and tell … and my daughter got up and said to the class that she went to Mike Tyson’s house and she was playing with a baby cougar. “I can never say a bad thing about Mike Tyson.”. If these guys are getting knocked out by Tyson Fury — who's a great fighter, but not a huge puncher — Tyson would kill these guys. That's according to one of Tyson's former trainers, Jeff Fenech, who said if the 53-year-old returned to the sport today, he'd knock out Wilder in a single round. If you punch him, it's over. Boxing Ex-NRL star Paul Gallen would be ‘signing his own death warrant’ if he agreed to step into the ring against iconic former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
He is still hugely popular.
Who has Sonny Bill fought? … "I was upset because I felt for Mike," Fenech told Wide World of Sports. Jeff Fenech, who coached Tyson from early 2005, appeared to ridicule Wilder's skill-set and said if Tyson Fury could finish the American, then Mike Tyson could, too. "I thought that if weren't going to stop this guy early, we were going to have problems ... and there were maybe two pigeons flying around in his head at the time.
Jeff Fenech, who coached Tyson from early 2005, appeared to ridicule Wilder's skill-set and said if Tyson Fury could finish the American, then Mike Tyson …
"He's got this encyclopedia that's embedded in his head. The post-fight scene was hectic. I love Mike Tyson," Fenech said. "I rang my wife, jumped on a plane and by the time I got home, I read in the media that Showtime told him he had to fight irrespective, or they were going to sue him. I thought maybe he's not going to turn up, so we went home, back to Mike's house in Vegas.
That was all that really mattered.". Fenech is one of Tyson's closest friends and will probably play a role in any comeback. It didn’t matter that Tyson was past his prime.
It just didn't work out. If he gets in the ring with someone, we've all seen what he's done to people in the past and that mentality is not going to change.
'Mike, where have you been?
It will be starkly different from his last turn as an exhibition fighter. We didn't have much to celebrate, but we celebrated that Mike didn't get hurt that night and he was with his family. The Australian was robbed of a world title in a fourth weight division. Mike doesn't want to hurt anybody and nobody wants to hurt Mike. Fenech had been a friend for over a decade, but also did a lot of extra work with Tyson, despite never holding the title of ‘trainer’.
But whatever Fury can do, Mike Tyson can do better, Fenech told Sporting News. However, Markson - who helped bring Tyson to Australia in 2012 for a speaking tour - said the COVID-19 outbreak and visa issues presented obstacles in making any fight a reality in the short term. John Ibrahim on episode three of ‘Standing Eight’. He remained an all-time great of the sport and a pop culture colossus, but also a dark figure who could have been much more. The rematch with Lewis was gone. Tyson, who got the tattoo in February 2003, never explained himself to Fenech. "I've seen so many great qualities in Mike Tyson, that's why I'm such a Mike Tyson fan. Footage of him hitting the pads last week went viral, with the man dubbed "the baddest man on the planet" displaying his trademark power.
Tyson admitted that he was not ready for a rematch with Lennox Lewis, who had beaten him in a world title fight the previous year. Not many people know Mike Tyson better than Jeff Fenech.
Fenech reckons that if things went his way, Tyson (50-6, 44 KO, 2 NC) could still knock out recent world champion Deontay Wilder inside one minute. "When he's not around all the publicity, he's most probably one of the most generous people in the world.".
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Boxing promoter Brian Amatruda has tabled $1 million in a bid to get Tyson to Australia to fight either Williams, Paul Gallen or Barry Hall. Ibrahim was one of them, and Fenech’s generosity allowed him to train with Mike Tyson, meet Muhammad Ali, as well as get up to some fun. And yeah, I loved it.”. I stopped the fight when a lot of people didn't want me to; a lot of people in the corner didn't want me to, a lot of people in the crowd were going crazy, but I did what I thought was best for my friend. "I just want to get my s--t together.
"If he's able to get fit, and at age 50 it would be hard, but with his natural ability and power he'd probably compete with a lot of world-ranked heavyweights these days I think.
We weren't going to train Sunday, but he wanted to go Friday and have Saturday off then come back to training.
“And at the after-party, there were no cameras allowed. He quickly faded and was unable to beat the count when knocked down at the end of the fourth round. "So that night, instead of staying in the house, I went and stayed in one of the casinos in Vegas, down near Mike's house away from the strip. Renowned for his extraordinary punching power, Wilder lost his unbeaten record in February when Fury shook-up the boxing world by abandoning an awkward box-and-move strategy he had seemingly perfected through his career, to instead close the distance on Wilder and out-bang the banger.
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