1999-01-16 - Tyson vs. Botha
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00:00We're set for the return of Mike Tyson
00:02as he faces off with Francois Botha.
00:05Let's get the official introductions
00:07from our ring announcer, the classy Jimmy Lennon Jr.
00:12-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
00:14Here we go.
00:15The time has come for our main event of the evening.
00:20And now, ladies and gentlemen in attendance
00:22and boxing fans joining us around the world,
00:25live from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas,
00:29it's showtime!
00:32-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
00:39Introducing to you at this time, a referee in charge
00:42of this, our main event, Richard Steele.
00:46-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
00:48Introducing to you at this time, ladies and gentlemen
00:51on my right, the principals,
00:54first fighting out of the blue corner,
00:56wearing black trunks,
00:58fighting out of Newport Beach, California
01:01by way of Pretoria, South Africa.
01:05He weighed in at 233 pounds,
01:08with a record of 39 wins, one loss, one no contest.
01:13He has 24 wins coming by way of knockout.
01:17He is currently ranked the number two
01:19heavyweight contender by the IBF.
01:21Here is the former IBF heavyweight champion
01:24of the world, known as the White Buffalo,
01:28introducing Francois Bota.
01:33-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
01:41And presenting his opponent across the ring on my left,
01:44fighting out of the red corner in this 10 round main event,
01:48wearing his traditional black trunks
01:50and hailing from Catskill, New York.
01:54He weighed in at 223 pounds,
01:57with a record of 45 wins and three losses.
02:00He has 39 big wins coming by way of knockout.
02:05Tonight, making his long awaited return to the ring,
02:09here is the youngest man ever to win the heavyweight title,
02:13currently ranked the number 10 contender,
02:15the two time heavyweight champion of the world.
02:19Ladies and gentlemen, introducing Mike Tyson.
02:26-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
02:32Okay, I spoke to both fighters in the dressing room.
02:35You've both been champions before,
02:38so I expect for you to conduct yourself as champions.
02:42Obey my commands at all times, shake hands, and good luck.
02:45Hands up.
02:47-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
02:51Okay, I spoke to both fighters in the dressing room.
02:54You've both been champions before,
02:56so I expect for you to conduct yourself as champions.
02:59Obey my commands at all times, shake hands, and good luck.
03:03Hands up.
03:05-♪ Win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it, win it
03:10Okay, I spoke to both fighters in the dressing room.
03:13Let's see if he does.
03:15Well, Angelo has a pretty darn good opinion.
03:18Let's see what he does.
03:20The bell for round one.
03:23Both is going to try and land that jab,
03:25but let me tell you, gentlemen,
03:26I think as soon as he really gets hit early,
03:28he's going to resort back to some of the old
03:29Franz Bothe tactics, and if this pace is fast,
03:32which Mike knows no other way,
03:34I want to see how he holds up in rounds two, three, and four
03:36if we get that far.
03:38And there is a lot of head movement
03:39on the part of Mike Tyson here at the outset.
03:42He's not as fast as everybody thought he started,
03:45but then again, Mike is fighting,
03:47quietly waiting for his opening.
03:48There's one.
03:50Two big misses by Mike Tyson,
03:52first a right, then a left.
03:54And here's a man with one of the fastest hands in America
03:57and power.
03:58Another miss with a wild swing.
04:01There's more movement by both of them
04:02than I've seen in quite some time.
04:03He's standing outside.
04:05Said he was going to tie Mike up on the inside.
04:06Mike needs to come in behind the jab,
04:08bob and weave, and whack him.
04:10Tyson hasn't been hit in nearly two years.
04:11What will happen if he gets hit hard by both of them?
04:15We'll see who gets this party started.
04:18I just had a little deja vu
04:19called Bone Crusher Smith dancing.
04:23And I'm starting to see that unfold right before my eyes.
04:25Just hold on and survive.
04:27Well, Tyson certainly coming in to do some serious damage.
04:31Does Botha have the ability to combat this?
04:34Botha certainly doesn't look afraid.
04:36He's standing right in there,
04:37and he nails Tyson with a right throw.
04:39Misses with a right hook.
04:41Botha's got guts. Don't mistake that.
04:43He'll be there. He'll be there all night long
04:45if he doesn't get hit, and he'll be punching.
04:48It's up to Mike to figure out how to get past that jab.
04:50Mike's got to come in behind that jab, you're right.
04:52And he hasn't done it. He hasn't done it past the jab.
04:57Botha on the inside now.
05:00Remember, Mike.
05:01Got a couple of pops in with a straight right.
05:06Tyson being very patient.
05:12There's some blood on the head of Mike Tyson,
05:15probably from a clash of heads.
05:22See, with Mike slipping underneath,
05:23he's not firing right away.
05:24Franz Botha is looking to immediately hold
05:26once they get within a foot.
05:28Franz Botha's doing very well this first round.
05:30Very well, indeed.
05:32It's what he's wanted to do, to jab,
05:34punch in bunches, and punch inside,
05:36frustrate Mike, and he's done that.
05:40Come on, punch again out of there.
05:42Great, step back. Step back.
05:44Botha doing what he said he would do,
05:46tying Tyson up, just like Holyfield did.
05:50And Tyson continues to miss with those wild lefts.
05:55I don't think I've seen Botha move this good
05:56in his entire career.
05:58He just seems to be avoiding everything Mike does.
06:02So with 10 seconds left in the opening round,
06:04scheduled for the final round,
06:06So with 10 seconds left in the opening round,
06:08scheduled for 10, Botha off to a tremendous start.
06:12Great. Step back. Step back.
06:14Please step back.
06:15Hey, Mike.
06:18Well, it's tough to unravel those two.
06:21They continue to hit after the bell.
06:23Here we go again.
06:25Here come the corners. Here comes security.
06:30It's Bedlam in the ring.
06:36Well, the two have to be ripped apart
06:38at the end of round one.
06:40What an unbelievable start.
06:42I think that was more Botha's fault.
06:43I don't even know what happened, but Botha...
06:45Botha was doing some ugly things.
06:47Botha did react to something that Tyson did,
06:50but he lost his head. Botha did, not Tyson.
06:53Jam your hand and go to the body.
06:54Water, water. Water, water.
06:56Here he is.
06:59Hey, yo, you got to put your punches together.
07:02He's holding and hitting.
07:03Referee says, break up, punch out.
07:05Now, Botha's claiming he's done something.
07:09Botha's claiming he's done something,
07:10and the referee doesn't know how to break him,
07:12and now comes the action.
07:14You see?
07:15Well, you know what? Mike had a free hand there.
07:16He's allowed to left hook in with it.
07:17He did, honestly.
07:19He did something to him.
07:20Botha didn't like it, though.
07:21I don't know what he did to him.
07:23Well, there was the bell to begin round two,
07:25and both are still on their stools.
07:27People are in the ring.
07:28Richard Steele called timeout.
07:30He has to call timeout. He has to quiet this down.
07:33This cannot go on right now as a fight.
07:35He has to quiet this down.
07:38Look at the outer portion of the ring.
07:40It's all security.
07:42There's Mark Ratner, the head of the Nevada Commission,
07:44with Richard Steele.
07:46Well, this is unfortunate.
07:47Let's be honest.
07:49What's happened?
07:52You can't win with a foul.
07:54Come on, get out.
07:55You can't win with a foul, okay?
07:58You've been here once before, Mike.
07:59Poignant words from Richard Steele.
08:01You can't win with a foul, okay?
08:03You can't win with a foul.
08:05What a controversial start to this return to Mike Tyson.
08:10Chaos after the first round.
08:13Now they pick it up in round two.
08:15Yeah, step back, step back.
08:17Step back, Clint.
08:19Now, this is war.
08:22Tyson's screaming at Richard Steele.
08:25Tyson mad.
08:26Now he's going back to his old style.
08:28He's just coming in, and he's claiming
08:30he's being grabbed and held.
08:32He's claiming that he's twisting his arm
08:35or adding pressure to his arm and screaming about it.
08:38And Tyson wants to end this thing with one punch now.
08:42And isn't it unfortunate it has to be Richard Steele?
08:45Of course.
08:47Controversy follows him everywhere.
08:49One punch.
08:51You can't win if you foul.
08:53He's taking a point away from Tyson.
08:57Mike was complaining about the excessive holding.
09:00What an ugly start to this fight.
09:03Well, this one was more bolder than Tyson.
09:07Tyson missing again with that wild left hook.
09:13Unfortunate for Tyson.
09:15He's going to have to come back.
09:17He's going to have to come back.
09:19Unfortunate for Tyson.
09:21He got a guy that has no control over his emotions either.
09:28He hurt both with that right hand.
09:30You know what you got, though?
09:32I'm telling you, you got a big holding match here.
09:34This is going to be a dance.
09:35Bone Crusher Smith did it, survived, didn't get hurt,
09:37got paid.
09:38Both is going to do the same thing.
09:40Both are being warned for the hold.
09:44Right, step back, step back.
09:46You know, technically, that holding,
09:48if you do that too often, you're disqualified.
09:50Read the rule book.
09:51You'll find that holding for no reason is a foul.
09:54Well, let me tell you.
09:55Mike Tyson is having none of that.
09:57He's backing up Botha.
09:58Botha did not back up in the first round.
10:00He won that first round.
10:02But now he has a little bit of timidity
10:05when it comes to coming forth because there's
10:07fire in Mike Tyson's eye.
10:09There's fire.
10:14Botha dancing around.
10:17This, of course, the most movement we've seen from him.
10:19See right there, Mike Tyson should have just
10:21jabbed in and through.
10:24Right hand by Tyson, sent Botha back,
10:27but it was off the shoulder.
10:28Now a left by Mike Tyson.
10:31Step back.
10:32Step back.
10:33Let's go.
10:34But to the upper chest area of Botha,
10:36didn't do much damage.
10:38You hold him.
10:39No.
10:40You hold him.
10:41Right, step back, step back.
10:42But Botha has to love this because Tyson
10:45is being disrupted.
10:47He's losing his cool.
10:48Oh, he stumbled after that wild miss
10:50off the right hook and almost went down.
10:52Well, he got hit in the belly as he went by.
10:55But Richard Steele has warned Botha,
10:57don't hold or you'll lose a point.
10:59Now there's another one coming.
11:01Have you ever seen Tyson this reckless, this careless?
11:04Well, he's discombobulated.
11:05Just what we thought Botha might do to him.
11:07And the layoff has hurt his speed
11:11and it's hurt his, uh, back.
11:14Put your arms back.
11:15You can throw a lot out of the way.
11:16We're in a fight here.
11:17We're not in a boxing match.
11:18This is something different.
11:19You got to put your arms back.
11:20Forget all that.
11:21This is a fight.
11:22This is an alley fight, a street fight.
11:24This is the kind that, uh, he got into
11:26in the streets of Brooklyn.
11:28And again, a left hook to the jaw
11:30by Tyson after the bell.
11:32That was clearly Tyson.
11:34That's all.
11:36Is he going to take another point away?
11:38No, he warned him.
11:39Boy, you got a mouthpiece.
11:40Hey, listen.
11:41Listen up.
11:42Hey, look.
11:43All you got to do is knock this guy out,
11:45then you got to worry about that.
11:46All right, don't worry about that.
11:47You know what I'm saying?
11:48I mean, good shit.
11:49Boy, where's the pocket?
11:50Where's the pocket?
11:51We're going to look and see if we can see
11:54why this got, uh, Tyson a warning.
11:56I didn't see it that open.
11:58See, he's locking his arm under the arm of Botha.
12:02Botha's been screaming.
12:03See how he twist it?
12:04See how he twist it?
12:05See how he twist it?
12:06See how he twist it?
12:07See how he twist it?
12:08See how he twist it?
12:09See how he twist it?
12:10See how he twist it?
12:11See how he twist it?
12:12See how he twist it?
12:13See how he twist it?
12:14See how he twist it?
12:15See how he twist it?
12:16That's the leverage he's applying.
12:17Like a wrestler, he's twisting him under,
12:19and that's why he hollered.
12:21At the end of the round, Mike Tyson, I think,
12:23just pulls off an extreme close-up here
12:25and pops him not only with a left hook,
12:28but a nice little left elbow to go with it.
12:30This is a fight.
12:31This is a fight.
12:32So, dirty tactics by both.
12:34Tyson on the chase.
12:37Double jab and a left hook landed.
12:39And now both a hold.
12:40A fight like that, two jabs and a combination,
12:42both is just gonna hold.
12:43Both can't win that one.
12:45Round 3.
12:47Nobody has landed solidly as of yet.
12:52Except for perhaps after the round.
12:55Let go.
12:58That's an interesting round, that last one.
13:00Tyson won the round, but they took a point away from him.
13:03And both have won the first round,
13:05so this is interesting.
13:08I gave Mike the second round
13:09because he landed the cleaner shots.
13:10It was more effective overall.
13:12And right now, Mike's been a little more effective here,
13:14but France, both is just not fighting.
13:15But then they took a point away from him
13:16on the second round.
13:17That's right.
13:19So, what we got here is interesting.
13:22Clearly, most people thought that Tyson would come out.
13:24Tyson slips in both his quarter over the logo
13:27and would overwhelm Franz Botha with both of them.
13:30Hold on, Frank.
13:31Right on top of him from the start.
13:34Step back, please.
13:36I'll tell you what.
13:37As a former fighter and knowing the game,
13:39as a referee, I've seen many of them take a point away
13:41for excessive holding.
13:42Then Botha's got to fight.
13:43He didn't come here to fight.
13:44He came here to punch and hold.
13:45And that's something that is not necessarily respectable.
13:48And Botha backing up his words.
13:49Certainly not intimidated by Tyson.
13:52Well, let me tell you.
13:53Botha's doing a pretty good job of fighting.
13:55He's doing a pretty damn good job of fighting
13:57because he's getting off more punches
13:59and he's landing more.
14:01Tyson is being out-jabbed, out-thawed.
14:05He has got to calm down and return to boxing.
14:09Another strange night for Mike Tyson.
14:13Tyson looks fatigued already, exhausted.
14:17Right, step back, step back.
14:20Let him go, Mike.
14:21Let him go.
14:22Under a minute remaining.
14:23Round three.
14:24All this self-defense.
14:27Let him go.
14:28Under a minute remaining.
14:29Round three.
14:31All this slugging and moving around
14:33has to be taking tolls on both fighters.
14:36What takes toll is the emotion of getting into a fight
14:39rather than a boxing match.
14:40You can box all night long.
14:41When you get in a fight,
14:42and your adrenaline starts to pump.
14:43This is clearly not the strategy Botha said.
14:46He talked about punching, stepping off the side
14:48and punching again instead of punching and holding.
14:50Look at this.
14:51How about that move by Botha?
14:53Hit him two hands in each ear.
14:54The vice.
14:55That should pop your eardrums for you.
14:59So Botha resorting to any and all tactics here.
15:02Well, Botha's charging and smothering the punches,
15:04but he's throwing a few on the way
15:07and grabbing Mike using his weight to bowl him.
15:09Remember, we've seen Botha go past 5
15:12and struggling and struggling.
15:13But Tyson, when he goes past 5,
15:15gets tired, frustrated, and knocked out.
15:17And he usually resorts to clenching.
15:21And that's exactly what Botha said.
15:23Just get Tyson into the deeper rounds,
15:25and then he'll feel my power.
15:27We'll see.
15:28Yeah!
15:30That's what I'm talking about.
15:32That's what I'm talking about.
15:34Look, come on. Come on.
15:35Much better. Hey, listen.
15:37You're not putting your punches together, baby.
15:38You're loading up with one shot.
15:41What did we work on in the gym?
15:42Put them together.
15:43Put them together, right?
15:44Yes, sir.
15:45Okay, listen.
15:46Hey, listen.
15:47I need you to throw the jab,
15:48get him to look at the jab.
15:49He tried it right here and down here,
15:51just like we worked on.
15:52Okay?
15:53Yes, sir.
15:54Hey, yo, right here, dog.
15:55Right here, okay?
15:57More than one shot, okay?
15:59Uh-huh.
16:00Uh-huh.
16:01Come on, you can take some.
16:03Hey, don't fall into the trap, baby.
16:05All right, let's pick right hand by Botha.
16:07Botha's throwing, and then watch both hands
16:10when he gets in close and holds him.
16:12Now, watch what he does with both hands at one time.
16:14Boom. No, this is not...
16:16Watch it with both hands at the same time.
16:18There you go.
16:19That should pop your eardrums for you.
16:21You can punch your eardrums doing that, by the way.
16:24Well, we came in wondering if Tyson
16:26could execute a game plan.
16:27Now, not being able to blow Botha away,
16:31will he be patient
16:33and stick to some kind of a plan,
16:35as Tommy Brooks wants?
16:38Well, Botha's certainly not showing any intimidation.
16:40He's not scared of him.
16:42He thinks he can take him,
16:43and there's a lot of confidence in his corner.
16:45A lot of confidence.
16:46Well, many feel Tyson's become nothing more than a puncher,
16:50so why can't a puncher beat him?
16:55That was a nice movement by Mike,
16:57but he's not firing. He has to fire.
16:59Brooks is doing what he has to to just hold on
17:01and stay out of harm's way, but Mike's got to fire.
17:03Oh, good right hand by Francois Botha.
17:05That was a solid shot on the face of Tyson.
17:09Brooks has told him,
17:11show him you're jabbing and come under
17:12with the right hand real hard,
17:13but he hadn't done that at all.
17:15He hadn't shown him a jab.
17:16He's not following Brooks' instructions.
17:18Mike is not jabbing Ferdie. That's the key to this fight.
17:21The key to the fight is he better listen to Brooks.
17:24Brooks is giving him the right advice.
17:25He's not taking it.
17:27If he doesn't listen to his corner,
17:28what does he need him for?
17:30He's got to do what Brooks wants.
17:33Botha looking extremely confident.
17:40He's got his hands way down.
17:42See, here's where you stop the jab.
17:43Step to him and stop it.
17:45He's toying with Tyson.
17:47Whoever thought we'd see this?
17:50And the crowd reacts and loves it.
17:53Right, step back, step back, Tyson.
17:54Well, it better not work adversely on Tyson,
17:57where he thinks he's being ridiculed
17:59and he thinks he's being made fun of,
18:01and then you got quit on your hands.
18:04I'll tell you what, I don't like fighters
18:05that just hold, punch and hold.
18:07Technically, it's illegal.
18:09In the rule book, if you research it,
18:11it's points deducted.
18:13It's a noncombative posture,
18:15and in this case, it's the only way to survive
18:17for both, I think.
18:19He cannot punch with Mike Tyson straight away.
18:21A slight cut on the bridge of both his nose.
18:24Very slight, almost nothing.
18:28But, Bobby, this is not a holding round.
18:31This guy is just walking around,
18:33kind of looking at him, making fun,
18:34and outbeating him to the first punch.
18:36He's winning the round by outbeating Tyson
18:39to that right hand, and Tyson's not punching back.
18:42Botha getting off first,
18:43and Tyson not countering, not taking advantage.
18:46Oh!
18:48Whoa, break!
18:50You haven't told me that again.
18:53Title 30 seconds in the fourth round.
18:58Come on, punch it in there!
19:00Tyson very frustrated.
19:03Just looks over to Richard Steele.
19:04He won't get help from him.
19:06Pull your arms back, Mike. Pull them back.
19:08Again, he looks over to Steele.
19:10Takes his eyes off his opponent.
19:11I don't know what kind of advice that is.
19:13I wouldn't pull my arms back
19:14if somebody was right on me.
19:15They've been punching me, so I wouldn't do that.
19:17Well, this one's gonna be ugly and long.
19:20If it's long, it will be ugly.
19:23Break!
19:24Step back.
19:26Come on, baby, come on.
19:29How you like that?
19:31How you like that?
19:33All right, Jimmy, let's go to work.
19:36All right, take a deep breath.
19:37Let him take a deep breath first, Nance.
19:39Right here, right here.
19:42Now, listen to me.
19:43You're walking away like I told you.
19:45I didn't want you to walk away from me.
19:46I want you going side to side and jabbing him, okay?
19:50You can land a right hand if you step to your right.
19:53Jab him and step to your right.
19:54You're hitting him with it, you can land it, okay?
19:58Let's watch Tyson now.
20:00Watch Tyson now.
20:01He's got a lot of power in his right hand.
20:03He's got a lot of power in his left hand.
20:05Watch Tyson now.
20:06Watch his eyes.
20:07He keeps looking over at Steele,
20:08like to petition him, and he gets hit two shots.
20:12I mean, see, he's looking at Steele,
20:13because Steele has said,
20:14I'm going to take a point away from you if you're holding.
20:17And then Tyson's looking over and said,
20:20well, he's holding me, and he gets hit twice.
20:23Both of those dudes are smart, though.
20:24When Mike's hands go in,
20:25he's grabbing Mike's hands from the side.
20:27Makes it look like Mike's holding both of them.
20:29He better settle down and start fighting.
20:30Mike Tyson better go back to fighting and forget brawling.
20:34And now, round five,
20:35Francois Botha stymieing Mike Tyson,
20:38keeping him at bay.
20:39Step back. Step back.
20:40Great.
20:41Mike Tyson has not hit him one of the power Tyson shots
20:45that we've hit, seen him hit people.
20:46Not once. Now he will.
20:48Tries to open it up, does Tyson,
20:50but Botha comes in and holds him.
20:53Botha's got a good chin.
20:54He just charges and smothers and holds
20:56until he recovers.
21:00Boy, that one blocked Botha,
21:02but he's able to come back,
21:04and he's talking to Tyson.
21:05He said he would do that.
21:07He is trying to say something to Tyson.
21:11As Botha tries to get this into the later rounds,
21:13it's round five.
21:14Listen, Botha's ahead right now.
21:16It's Tyson he's got to worry, not Botha.
21:19Botha's ahead right now. He's not winning the round,
21:21but he's got a three-round-to-one lead
21:23in the one-round Mike won.
21:24He lost a point.
21:26And the crowd rallying behind Botha.
21:29You think the crowd was just rallying behind action.
21:32Yeah.
21:33Go hard. Go hard.
21:35The thing is, Mike is punching one at a time,
21:38one at a time, and then being suffocated
21:40by this mountain of white flesh here.
21:42I mean, as soon as he punches, this guy just smothers him.
21:45That's the way to beat Tyson. He's doing it.
21:48Double jabbing, Mike's not doing it.
21:50He's just not listening.
21:51He's abandoning. He's getting frustrated.
21:53And Botha's doing it without being too dirty.
21:59Now, right there, Mike should have came right up.
22:00He threw the right to the body.
22:02He should have came right up with the hooks.
22:04All right, break clean, break clean.
22:05I'll take a point away.
22:06Awful lot of ring rust showing here.
22:08Awful lot.
22:10This is not even half of Tyson.
22:13Tyson ate two right hands there.
22:14Not too good for Mike Tyson.
22:16Again, Botha with his hands way down by his side,
22:19and he got nailed with a straight left to the nose,
22:22and Botha smiling back at Tyson.
22:25Mike Tyson's got a lot of work to do here.
22:28Like I said, that's the first good shot
22:29you've landed in four rounds.
22:33He's not throwing two punches.
22:35He's sucked into that morass of flesh that is Botha.
22:39I mean, he's not going in with two and three shots.
22:42He must let his hands go.
22:43Botha has a terrific chin.
22:45We've seen that.
22:46He's been down two times in his career,
22:48both versus Michael Moore in the 11th round.
22:54First time Bobby let two punches go at the same time.
22:58Left and a right, and then he got caught.
23:00But he's got to punch with both.
23:02Now again.
23:05But Tyson's just showing no speed whatsoever.
23:09Looks like he's in slow motion.
23:11He just can't get off two punches.
23:13I mean, that is a mark of a shot fighter
23:15when you can't get off punches.
23:16Oh, a straight right hand down goes Botha.
23:21That's all it took, one shot.
23:22He may not get up.
23:24Botha stumbling around.
23:278, 9, can he make it?
23:29It's over. It's over.
23:31Mike Tyson has returned.
23:33One right hand.
23:35One right hand equals
23:37and neutralizes everything that was happening to him.
23:39That's what happens when you got a great puncher.
23:42That's all it takes.
23:43Was he lucky?
23:45Well, I picked him in five, and in five he went out.
23:48But he was, Mike was in deep trouble
23:50because he did not know how to shake the ring, Russ.
23:53He did not know how to use his hands,
23:54and he's at half speed.
23:55He's got to do some training, Bobby.
23:57Well, I really believe he's got to get back to the basics.
23:59That jab was big key for him when he was young,
24:01short, working his way in.
24:02He got people's attention, made them put their hands up,
24:05made them worry about the jab,
24:06then fired the right to no offense.
24:07And that's what Brooks was telling him.
24:08That's what he was telling him.
24:09He just did not readjust well.
24:12Well, it took him too many rounds to make the adjustment,
24:15but, boy, he made it very resoundingly, didn't he?
24:17And let me tell you something.
24:19Give credit to Botha.
24:20Botha came in, did exactly what he wanted to do,
24:22and he's winning the fight.
24:23Well, let's just hope he's all right now
24:25after that resounding shot by Mike Tyson.
24:28Usually one shot doesn't hurt you.
24:30Botha's not the type of guy you can take out with one punch.
24:33I never saw him get hurt with one punch.
24:35Not ever, did I say?
24:36With more, he got knocked out more from exhaustion
24:38than just the punches.
24:39And it was an accumulation factor.
24:43There's Tyson.
24:46A kiss on the head from Mike Tyson.
24:49Now Sterling McPherson, the manager trainer of Botha,
24:51they hug.
24:53Boy, this got off to an ugly start.
24:56Well, the powers that rule boxing can breathe one deep breath.
25:01Let's take a look at this knockdown.
25:03I can't wait to see it myself.
25:04It happened so fast.
25:05Never thought I'd see these two guys hugging.
25:06Let's take, yeah, well, let's take a look.
25:08It's a short, chomping right hand.
25:11There it is, right on him.
25:12You look at the body.
25:13He turns his body into this punch.
25:16His hips, his shoulders, from the floor up,
25:19he drives this right hand in.
25:21Here's a different angle,
25:22and you can watch Botha coming and what he sees.
25:25Mike steps into him, bang.
25:27He turned his whole body, his hip, his legs.
25:29That man got hit with 230 pounds,
25:32223 pounds of Mike Tyson.
25:35All right, from overhead, which is not gonna look
25:37much more different because this is so typical of Tyson
25:41when he punches well.
25:42It's just that's the first opportunity
25:44that he had to land a power shot.
25:46And when it landed, it was lights out
25:48for Franz Botha, who had been doing very well,
25:52very well indeed.
25:53And so, once again, a puncher saves himself
25:57by what got him here, punching power.
25:59So Mike Tyson exhibiting the ring rust
26:03that comes with nearly two years of inactivity
26:06as Botha just staggers back to the ropes.
26:09The ropes saved him from hitting the canvas.
26:11Eventually, he did, and how do you like that?
26:13It was Mike Tyson who went over there
26:16to save him from falling.
26:19And was very gentlemanly and cavalier
26:22all through the whole thing.
26:23Thanked him and kissed him and hugged him
26:25and hoped he was well.
26:26So something that started as ugly
26:28and as sensational as it did,
26:30ended up, thankfully, peacefully in the knockout.
26:35All right, let's get the official time
26:37from ring announcer Jimmy Lennon Jr.
26:41Ladies and gentlemen, we have the time
26:44of 2 minutes, 59 seconds at round number 5.
26:48Our referee in charge, Richard Steele,
26:50reaches the count of 10.
26:52He's the winner by way of knockout,
26:56Mike Tyson!
26:59-♪