Jim Lampley
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And it was also, there was the flow where you guys had worked together so often.
It's just so hard to believe that you could achieve the highest level of combat sports, the heavyweight champion of the world, and yet have this really rank amateur corner.
And it comes with success, all the trappings.
I mean, he was just constantly, you know.
The first time I met him, it's hard to believe he's really in the room.
You're like, I can't believe he's real.
Me as a child, I remember when I was a kid, I guess I wasn't a child, I'm only a year younger than him, but when he lost to Buster Douglas, I didn't watch it until after the fight.
I watched a replay of it, and I still expected him to win.
You know how crazy that is?
That's the kind of aura that Mike Tyson had.
I remember I heard about it in a gas station.
Someone told me in a gas station.