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The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

Like that Stallone Cobra thing behind Van's shoulder there. And it was like totally normal. That's how desperate we were for basketball. Let's take a break. We got to talk to Mike Tyson. All right. Mike Tyson against one of the Paul brothers. Which Paul brother is it? Jake. Jake Paul.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

Wes, are you old enough to remember early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

Wes, are you old enough to remember early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

Wes, are you old enough to remember early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

What do you remember of early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

What do you remember of early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

What do you remember of early Tyson?

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

That's my memory as well. Although I was older, but it was Sports Illustrated cover, HBO fights, This Is Must Watch. Saw literally every Tyson fight. Everyone cared the most about his fights versus really anything else in sports except maybe like the Super Bowl. That's crazy. And I don't know, the audience doesn't match up with that, but just...

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

That's my memory as well. Although I was older, but it was Sports Illustrated cover, HBO fights, This Is Must Watch. Saw literally every Tyson fight. Everyone cared the most about his fights versus really anything else in sports except maybe like the Super Bowl. That's crazy. And I don't know, the audience doesn't match up with that, but just...

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

That's my memory as well. Although I was older, but it was Sports Illustrated cover, HBO fights, This Is Must Watch. Saw literally every Tyson fight. Everyone cared the most about his fights versus really anything else in sports except maybe like the Super Bowl. That's crazy. And I don't know, the audience doesn't match up with that, but just...

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

And nobody liked Larry Holmes.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

And nobody liked Larry Holmes.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

And nobody liked Larry Holmes.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

The middleweights and the welterweights took over for half the decade.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

The middleweights and the welterweights took over for half the decade.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

The middleweights and the welterweights took over for half the decade.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

But it wasn't just the buzzsaw. It was the way he talked. It was how weird he was. He was just the most compelling person. His interviews after the fight, he would just use crazy words and had this weird empathy for somebody who he just sent their nose through their forehead.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

But it wasn't just the buzzsaw. It was the way he talked. It was how weird he was. He was just the most compelling person. His interviews after the fight, he would just use crazy words and had this weird empathy for somebody who he just sent their nose through their forehead.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

But it wasn't just the buzzsaw. It was the way he talked. It was how weird he was. He was just the most compelling person. His interviews after the fight, he would just use crazy words and had this weird empathy for somebody who he just sent their nose through their forehead.

The Bill Simmons Podcast
Part 1: An NBA Popularity Check and Tyson’s Big Comeback With Wosny Lambre and Van Lathan

I remember that. Well, the girl pay-per-view is what pushed her over the top. He knocked him out in 91 seconds. And everybody was like, that was one of the early, Hey, whose house are we going to? Which is now a staple of how we watch sports back then. It was like, who's getting the fight. Are we all chipping in? What are we doing for food?