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I must admit that there is something perversely fascinating about watching a boxing match. What other sport has as one of its underlying objectives to induce unconsciousness in the opponent through brain damage?

In my man-clicking TV surfing last night, I stumbled upon a rerun of the 1986 heavyweight fight between the then 20-year old Mike Tyson and Trevor Berbick. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket! Tyson was a machine, a one-man wrecking crew. In the second round Berbick was utterly destroyed by the fastest and most powerful uppercut I've ever seen. And then there was Mills Lane, the ref who would later become a claymation star of Celebrity Deathmatch. And Tyson, with not a single Tattoo, rape conviction, or ear cartilage between his teeth. What the commentator said regarding this youngest heavyweight champion as they closed the broadcast was prescient: "The only person that's gonna beat Mike Tyson is Mike Tyson."

That was 20 years ago.