Mike Tyson’s Son Mocks Boxing Journalist’s Betting Advice After Joseph Parker Loss
Before the Joseph Parker vs. Fabio Wardley fight, the latter remembered watching the Kiwi face Anthony Joshua. The two were in different positions in their career back then. Who would have thought fate would bring them together like this? But when fate did, Parker, WBO interim heavyweight champion at the time, came into the Saturday night fight as a heavy favorite to win. That’s what gave boxing journalist Chris Mannix the confidence to say what he said.
“This is the safest bet you can make in recent heavyweight championship fight history,” Mannix told Sergio Mora a day before the fight on DAZN’s The Fighter vs. Writer podcast episode 29.
A petty shot from the son of Mike Tyson
When the night finally came in England’s O2 Arena, the British heavyweight pulled off the biggest win of his career, causing an upset for
Amir J. Tyson was amused by hearing Mannix’s confident rant about betting against Wardley to make a bank, just for the journalist to be proven wrong. Earlier today, Amir took to Instagram, sharing Mannix’s clip on his story, alongside a stinging jab at the seasoned journalist.
Mike Tyson, Amir’s legendary father, of course, fought in the heavyweight division as well. And he, too, wasn’t safe from upset losses. Tyson fought James ‘Buster’ Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan. The fight, one of the biggest upsets in boxing history, saw Douglas knock out Tyson in the 10th round to claim the undisputed heavyweight title. Douglas was a 42-1 underdog, and Tyson’s record at the time was 37-0.
Joseph Parker wants to take it on the chin and move on
Parker has taken his upset stoppage loss to Wardley with remarkable grace. After the referee waved off their fight in the 11th round, many felt the decision was premature, but Parker refuses to dwell on it.
“When the ref jumped in, I was like, ‘Hey, I’m fine.’ But I guess it’s not my job to decide whether or not the fight can continue.”
“Boxing is very unpredictable. What’s the best way to overcome it? You just have to accept it and move on, because if you keep thinking about it, it’s just going to eat away at you.”
It appears Joseph Parker has started to recover from his loss to Wardley, but did Chris Mannix recover from his wildly inaccurate prediction? What did you think of Amir’s comment?
Flyers beat Penguins in a shootout after two goals get overturned in a wild overtime
The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Penguins, 3-2, in a shootout at Xfinity Mobile Arena. But the story Tuesday night was what happened in overtime.
Both teams appeared to score walk-off winners in a wild 3-on-3 session. The Flyers actually started heading to their dressing room before they were summoned back.
Then, as they are wont to do, a few players from the Penguins and Flyers wrestled on the ice, giving rookie Penguins coach Dan Muse his first taste of the bitter rivalry.
Throw in a power play for each side and, well, Erik Karlsson can take it from here...
“Yeah, it was crazy,” the defenseman said of the heart-pumping overtime period.
The Penguins on Tuesday were trying to do something they have never done in this longstanding rivalry, winning here in Philadelphia when trailing after two periods. Sidney Crosby scored midway through the third to extend the game into overtime.
Evgeni Malkin beat Flyers goalie Samuel Ersson early in overtime, but that goal was quickly waved off because Malkin left the bench too soon as the Penguins tried to pull their goalie on a delayed penalty. Muse said officials made the right call there.
The Flyers thought they had won in overtime when Tyson Foerster scored with 24.4 seconds left, but an official video review showed the Flyers clearly skated in offside.
The game somehow got even more chaotic as the buzzer sounded at the end of OT.
Parker Wotherspoon, Ryan Shea and Noel Acciari threw down with Trevor Zegras and a couple other Flyers as overtime concluded. The shootout was delayed so the officials could pry them apart and sort out the penalties. For some reason, Crosby was assessed a game misconduct, which made Crosby ineligible for the shootout.
ESPN’s cameras appeared to show Muse telling the officials, “You’re wrong. You’re wrong.” He was mum after the game when asked what explanation he was given.
“I’ll just leave that between me and the refs. I’ll keep quiet on that one,” he replied.
The game went to a shootout, where Bobby Brink scored the winner for the Flyers.
Despite that result, Pittsburgh earned three of four points in its first back-to-back.
For the fourth straight game, the Penguins got the first goal. Justin Brazeau scored off the rush. The Flyers tied it later in the first period with a Brink power-play tally.
The home team took the lead 2:46 into the second on a goal from Travis Konecny.
The Flyers had the Penguins on their heels for a while after that, but despite them peppering Arturs Silovs, they could not pad their lead. The Penguins started to push back in the third period and tied the score, 2-2, with Crosby’s latest goal in Philly.
It was over when...
Ersson stopped Ville Koivunen on the Penguins’ final shootout attempt. The Flyers won the shootout, 2-1. It was the second straight one Silovs and the Penguins lost.
Stat of the game
3 — straight losses for the Penguins here in Philly with four losses in their last five.
Around the boards
• The Penguins recalled Owen Pickering before the game and had the 21-year-old defenseman in their lineup against the Flyers. He skated on the third pair alongside Matt Dumba. That duo spent much of the game spinning around in their own zone. Pickering had a 38.7 expected goals percentage at 5-on-5, per Natural Stat Trick.
• Pittsburgh scratched young defenseman Harrison Brunicke for the third time in the last four games. The other scratches were Philip Tomasino and Connor Clifton.
• Silovs got the start as the Penguins continue to alternate their two goalies in the season’s first month. He likely laments that Konecny goal, but he made a few tough saves the rest of the way to keep the visitors in it. He stopped 34 shots in the loss.
• Crosby has now scored 57 goals against the Flyers, his most against any one team.
• Prior to his goal, it was a rough night for Crosby and the top line in Philadelphia. Per usual, Crosby was booed nearly every time he touched the puck. And the trio of Crosby, Bryan Rust and Filip Hallander fired only one shot through two periods.
• The Penguins entered the night with one of the NHL’s top power plays, but they struggled in Philadelphia. Not only did they generate next to no good looks on their four power plays, they gave up a few shorthanded chances to the Flyers. More than once, the Penguins’ failures woke up the fans and flipped momentum to the Flyers.
• Dumba got his first Penguins point with a secondary assist on Brazeau’s goal. He also took two bad penalties, one of which led to Brink’s power-play tally in the first.
