“People see him on the pads, a little minute clip, and say, ‘Oh, he could come back and beat everybody’.”
Allen feels the romantic notion of Tyson giving Father Time the slip in his sixth decade obscures the reality of a painful career denouement at the start of the century, when a one-sided hammering against Lennox Lewis preceded defeats to Danny Williams and Kevin McBride – two fighters a prime ‘Iron Mike’ would have dealt with handily, in all probability.
“I remember 18 years ago him losing to Lennox Lewis after seven one-sided rounds,” he added.
“A year later he lost to Danny Williams, then again he lost to Kevin McBride. This is 16 years ago.
“Mike Tyson’s one of the greatest fighters of all time, but you can’t turn back the clock and he’ll never be what he was. So I don’t really want to see it.”