Mike Tyson Versus Trevor Berbick

I've spent years ringside and in the tape rooms, watching fighters walk into traps they built for themselves. You see it most often when a veteran champion thinks their "toughness" is a strategy. In the lead-up to Mike Tyson Versus Trevor Berbick, I watched a seasoned champion convince himself that because he'd survived 15 rounds with Larry Holmes and outpointed Pinklon Thomas, he could simply out-muscle a 20-year-old whirlwind. He was wrong. It cost him his WBC belt, his dignity on a global broadcast, and effectively ended his time as a top-tier earner. If you're going into a high-stakes situation thinking you can just "take the hit" to prove a point, you've already lost.