The shocking and sad end to Mike Tyson's memorable career

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Once a true terror to every boxer on the planet, Mike Tyson, also called "the baddest man on the planet" was the biggest spectacle in the boxing ring at the end of the 20th century. With tiger-like speed and god-like power, Iron Mike would beat down his opponents with ease, inflicting heavy (and sometimes long-lasting) damage on them in the very first rounds of matches. Fame, money, women, drugs - Tyson was on the crest of the wave for years, but as fast as his rise to the top was, so was Mike's fall, as a result of the easy life to which he subjected his existence.

Few want to remember the downfall of the once-scary career, but at his peak, Tyson was a pale shadow of his former self, and his final professional fight is a disgrace not only to him, but to heavyweight boxing.

Kevin McBride is the last opponent in the career of Zeleniya - a boxer with a not very serious career and an athlete that no one would remember if he had not shocked Tyson in what turned out to be the last fight in the arena for Mike. Described as a "pathetic and aging fighter" by the LA Times, it was against McBride that Tyson brought his career to a sad end.

After a terrible performance at the end of the 6th round, the "baddest man on earth" simply sat in his corner and never appeared in the professional ring again, and McBride became the athlete who refused the Iron Man from boxing.

“I just don't have the stomach for it anymore. Maybe you won't see me fight again. I will not show disrespect to the sport by falling to such opponents" - these are Mike's words after the end of the match, and his confessions are even sadder than the reality that the millions of spectators in the ring saw.

"I was desperate - I wanted to beat him but I felt like I was 120 years old. I could have gone on, but I knew I would be defeated. I couldn't take it anymore." These are Tyson's last words as a professional boxer before he drowned in a sea of alcohol, drugs, light women and mindless parties.

Fortunately, today he is in good mental health and even does demonstration boxing matches. He obviously learned from the blows that fate dealt him, but that doesn't change the fact that the most dominant force in boxing came to a very sad end to his career.

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