Greatest Fights - Tyson v Spinks with David Haye
5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce
BBC
4.7 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Former heavyweight world champion David Haye joins Mike Costello and Steve Bunce to rewatch the night in 1988 when a 21-year-old Mike Tyson was at his most fearsome in the ring, destroying Michael Spinks in 91 seconds.
They delve into the circumstances surrounding the fight including Donald Trump's involvement in putting it on, and debate Tyson's legacy among the greatest of all time.
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| 0:00.0 | It's 2003 in Birmingham. |
| 0:04.4 | Doors have been slammed in your face, you're not welcome here. |
| 0:07.1 | They were capable of murder. |
| 0:08.4 | Drive-by killings, gang wars, a vigilante group that fought against Jamaica's notorious yardies. |
| 0:15.6 | The home boy thought we're not going to take this anymore. |
| 0:17.8 | We're going to be even more violent than you. |
| 0:19.6 | Before turning on each other. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Livy Haydock and this is gangster, the story of the Burger Bar boys. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:30.1 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:38.7 | Kostello and Bunce's greatest fights. |
| 0:50.0 | Thank you for joining us once again on Five Live Boxing with Costello on Bunce and the latest in our series of great fight nights. And today we're going back to June 1988 and a time when Mike Tyson Steve was at his |
| 0:56.8 | absolute fiercest. He was at his fiercest in the ring and he was that arguably |
| 1:02.0 | his most dangerous outside the ring most volatile I'm |
| 1:06.8 | choosing my words carefully because I don't want to label him like he was being |
| 1:10.1 | labeled at that time in the press. In fact, reading fresh about this fight, going |
| 1:16.1 | into detail, getting contemporary newspaper reports up. That's the only way to look at this fight |
| 1:21.9 | again, Mike, isn't to look at something that appeared last year somewhere. |
| 1:25.6 | No, it's to look at what the big boss writers, the boss scribes, as Don King called them, |
| 1:31.3 | we're writing at the time. rewriting at the time. |
| 1:33.6 | And the picture that's painted is of a man, |
| 1:37.9 | Mike Tyson, in severe meltdown. |
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