Two billion people in 200 countries, spanning six continents—no, it’s not the number of people who sent Jim Walden hate mail last season. Close.

It’s the hordes of dumb bunnies who paid fifty bucks a pop on pay-per-view to watch the fiasco entitled — The Comeback, leaving many Mike Tyson fans with the question: come again?

I admit it. I was one of those people sitting on the couch saying to myself, well, actually I was yelling at the TV screen, that throwing in the towel was not supposed to happen.

Come on. We all paid good money to see Mike Tyson kick the crap out of some stupid guy who still lives with his parents and writes horrible rhymes.

We all should have seen it coming. It was the perfect recipe for a scam.

Take two Don King boxers, making sure that one is a no name

professional and has a trainer with

a knack for throwing in the towel

in previous bouts, and the other is getting paid, excuse me, $25 million.

Should we say “Golden Mike Tyson”?

But don’t forget the team that made it all possible – “Hurricane” Peter McNeeley and Co.

He sure lived up to his name, didn’t he? McNeeley breezed in and danced around for 89 seconds and got paid roughly 540,000 smackers.

Who wouldn’t do the same for that much money? If you knew your trainer was going to stop it all before a minute and a half was up?

But I think the company part, namely Vince Vecchione and Don King, are to blame for the farse called a fight.

That’s why I’m wondering. Why?

Veccione must have known that McNeeley was heading for his third and final knockdown and that the match was going to be over soon. Cripes! Even I knew that.

Why would Vince throw in the towel, unless old Don told him to? He knew it would be the end of a career for both him and his fighter, or at least that’s what it should be.

Mike, coming off his unbelievable win by disqualification, is moving on to bigger and better things.

Now Iron Mike and Don King want to take on George Foreman

for the fight of the world. Fore-

man won’t step in the ring unless

it’s an arbitrary promotion and site used.

Foreman may be old and may be appearing off of just as questionable of a decision as Tyson’s, when he faught against Axl Schults back in May, but he’s not fooling around this time.

Speaking of fooling around. Where’s Jim Walden when you need him?

So maybe if King isn’t too

busy, he could come to Ames and

set up the biggest fight in ISU history.

Dan “The Mac Daddy” McCarney pitted against Jim “The Owl” Walden. Old school versus new.

We don’t have to worry about the fans. We might need some security to control the angry mob running after Walden. Of course it would be on pay-per-view.

We might need a sponsor, though. Did somebody say Hooters?

April Samp is a sophomore in journalism from Eldora, Iowa.