Did Tyson ever have much heart?

MIKE TYSON did not lose his fighting heart some time after the sixth round in Washington on Saturday night when the former world heavyweight champion conceded defeat against a club fighter called Kevin McBride.

The last vestiges of his once-ferocious armoury were not stripped from him by Danny Williams, Lennox Lewis or Evander Holyfield.

That accolade would go to James Buster Douglas, who might have shattered the myth back in 1990, that Tyson was one of the most irresistible forces in world heavyweight history.

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