another day of his boxing life slipping away, kevin mcbrideasked for a little help from a baker who cooked him oatmealporridge every morning five years ago, before he battered miketyson, the self-styled \"baddest man on the planet,\" intoretirement.across from the window table at greenhills irish bakeryglistened the golden logo atop one of mcbride's dangeroustemptations: dorchester's eire pub.at 36, mcbride was planning a comeback, his last chance to cashin on the fortunes that eluded him after he shocked the boxinguniverse on that june night in 2005 by knocking tyson off hisaxis.\"i'm going to need a lot more porridge,\" he told the baker,dermot quinn, one recent afternoon.quinn glanced across the street and said, \"just don't go over tothe pub for your porridge.\"mcbride, the former heavyweight champion of ireland who settledin dorchester, mass., with an irish-american nurse, is a big man (6feet 6, 280 pounds) with a heart the size of galway bay and anaffliction as powerful as the sour scent of a pub the morningafter.\"i'm an alcoholic,\" he said in an interview at the bakery, ninemonths into a hard-won sobriety. \"i beat the most feared man on theplanet, but the drink? it can knock you out.\"nearly 21/2 years after his last professional bout — a defeatthat left his career in shambles — mcbride has won some earlyrounds in his battle with the bottle and reawakened his innerboxing assassin. he has cleared his head, shed 50 pounds andrejoined a sport that has sustained him since he was a boy inclones, county monaghan, running the village streets to the \"rocky\"theme.\"he knows this is his last chance,\" mcbride's trainer, goodypetronelli, said during a workout at petronelli's boxing club inbrockton, mass. \"he's got the experience, the power and thepotential to be a world champion. now it's up to kevin.\"one for his fatherafter muddling through too many lost nights and missedopportunities, mcbride has returned to the sport he joined at 9 tosilence the schoolyard bullies. as a teenager, he brawled his wayto the 1992 olympics under a trainer who was later convicted ofsexually abusing seven young boxers while he worked with mcbride.later, mcbride seized the irish title and challenged tyson to honorhis father, who had died of cancer at 51. now, as an aging boxer,he is confronting his personal demons.\"i want to fulfill my dream of becoming the first irish-bornheavyweight champion of the world. it was the shock of the lastdecade, me beating tyson, and it will be the shock of this decadewhen i become the new cinderella man,\" said mcbride, referring tojames braddock, an irish-american boxer in the 1930s whose careerappeared dead before he waged a stunning comeback and captured theworld heavyweight title.mcbride's manager, jerry quinn, said he expects to schedule about after mcbride recovers from a minor wrist injury. by quinn'sestimation, a few solid victories would catapult the clonescolossus into contention for a title fight.\"it was disappointing that he never had a chance at a goodpayday after tyson,\" quinn said. \"he definitely has one more shotat it.\"there will be naysayers, as there were before the tyson fight.the critics called him \"a tomato can,\" \"a doormat,\" \"a nobody,\" \"adead man walking.\" he was ranked 154th in the world, and the oddsagainst him reached 20-1. tyson vowed to \"gut him like a fish.\"as mcbride entered the ring at the mci center in washington, anambulance stocked with his blood type was said to be idling at theready. then the bell rang. and the dead man proved himself aboxer.unable to shake mcbride for five rounds, tyson unleashed awithering volley in the sixth. (\"it felt like leprechauns wereplaying drums in my head,\" mcbride recalled.) then the irishmangathered himself and muttered to tyson, \"if that's all you got,you're in trouble,www.swarovskistoreonline.com.\"at that, tyson snapped. already infamous for chewing off a pieceof evander holyfield's ear, tyson launched a dirty, last-ditcheffort to steal the fight. he head-butted mcbride, bit his nipple,and violently wrenched his arm. then the baddest man on the planetsuddenly went powerless. mcbride leaned on him,Christian Louboutin pumps, and tyson droppedto the canvas, lying there splayed against the ropes.punched out, tyson failed to answer the bell for round 7, hiscareer kaput.mcbride had dedicated the fight to his father, kevin sr., abutcher from clones, who was buried with his son's olympicmedallion. years earlier, the son had confided to his father, \"lordhave mercy, i'd love to fight tyson one day.\"\"if you work hard and believe in yourself, you can make ithappen,\" his father had told him.a liquid opponentmcbride had his father's name stitched into his boxing trunksthe night he stood over tyson, triumphant.in the arena afterward, muhammad ali paid mcbride a surprisevisit.\"this is the greatest night of my life in boxing,\" mcbride toldali, hugging and kissing him. \"i beat one legend and now i'mmeeting the greatest of all time.\"ali threw a few playful punches and said, \"i'm the greatest.you're the latest.\"a giddy mcbride, visions of a big payday dancing in his head,said he wanted \"to fly over clones in a helicopter and drop out abag of a million dollars.\"trouble was, he earned only $150,000 before expenses for thetyson fight. then his management (pre-quinn) did him no favors.unlike little-known british heavyweight danny williams, who wentfrom knocking out tyson a year earlier to striking it big with apay-per-view fight against world boxing council champion vitaliklitschko, mcbride went nowhere.he said he was promised a world title fight, first against johnruiz, then champion of the world boxing association, and lateragainst lamon brewster, champion of the world boxingorganization.instead, mcbride languished for 10 months, larding on 15 pounds,before he fought again and stopped palooka byron polley for a smallpaycheck. even then, mcbride said, he was told he would get a shotat 7-footer nikolai valuev, then the wba champion.yet again, he went nowhere.\"after that, i couldn't get myself up for the fights,\" mcbridesaid. \"i didn't have the same hunger because they weren't for aworld title.\"there was another problem. he had joked before the tyson fightabout celebrating a victory by drinking ireland dry,Ray Bans online. afterward, itseemed as if he also wanted to drain dorchester.drinking more and caring less, mcbride fought twice more afterhis mediocre outing against polley, enduring an embarrassingtechnical knockout in the second round against the relativelyunknown mike mollo in 2006 and getting stopped in the sixth roundby a former contender, andrew golota, in '07.\"i lost the fights because i wasn't in top condition, especiallywith my drinking,\" mcbride said.his focus was blurred, his ambition blunted.\"he was drinking until two or three days before the mollofight,\" said tommy white, a south boston concessionaire who ishelping mcbride maintain his sobriety. \"he's fighting theundisputed champion of the world, bar none: alcohol.\"injuries aggravated matters, but mcbride ultimately decided toface the truth. with white's help, he made a mission of forsakingthe bottle. as part of the commitment, he temporarily joined apaving crew,Bootcut Jeans, pushing a wheelbarrow, to build self-discipline.\"the drink, you have to keep fighting it every day,\" mcbridesaid. \"it's one of the great struggles of life.\"on a missiontroubling, too, were questions he fielded about his formertrainer, frank mulligan, 64, who is serving a 61/2-year prisonsentence in ireland for sexually abusing youths he coached while hetutored mcbride as a teenager. mcbride repeatedly was asked byirish reporters about his personal experience with mulligan, and hegave them the same answer he gave the globe: \"no comment.\"one of mulligan's victims, a former acquaintance of mcbride,testified that mulligan preyed on him by assuring him the sexualabuse was god's will.mcbride, while protecting his privacy, made no secret of hisdisdain for the convicted pedophile. with mulligan training him,mcbride, at 18, became the youngest super heavyweight to reach theolympics (he lost his only bout in the 1992 barcelona games).\"a man like that, a very sick man who hurt people the way hedid, he should be put away for life,\" mcbride said.white said mcbride's commitment to sobriety is inspired in partby mulligan's crimes. mcbride and his wife, danielle, have a5-year-old daughter, grainne, and 2-year-old son, caoimhin, twogreat joys of his life.\"now that i have my own kids, i watch out for people like that,\"mcbride said.absorbing a punch from mcbride is \"like catching a freighttrain,\" petronelli's assistant, skip jones, said as mcbride workedon his timing in the brockton gym.petronelli, remarkably spry at 87, held aloft a pair of baggloves as mcbride pounded away. the gym walls were plastered withvintage posters, most honoring marvelous marvin hagler, the formerundisputed middleweight world champion who trained there underpetronelli. the most prominent image of mcbride depicts himstanding over the defeated tyson. the caption reads, \"the picturepaints a thousand words.\"mcbride, hoping to inspire thousands of more words, hasintensified his training. some nights he steps into his size-19sneakers, descends from his apartment in a dorchester three-decker,and runs five miles through the city. he participates in spinningsessions and regularly visits a strength coach in brookline, wherehe lifts weights and kettle balls, his heart set on redeeminghimself in the ring.once again, mcbride could be the pride of ireland and its newengland diaspora, entering an arena, as he did for tyson,Yves Saint Laurent, with abagpiper playing \"the fields of athenry\" and supporters waving thetricolors. he has boxed around the world, from belfast and berlinto new york and vegas, winning 34 bouts (29 by knockout) and losingonly six but never striking it rich.now, his time is short, and his will is strong.\"i believe if i stay sober and focused, i have the punchingpower to change a chapter in boxing history,\" mcbride said. \"i canfulfill my dream. then i can move on and be there for my wife andkids.\" kevin mcbride, mike tyson,Yves saint Laurent sale, bob hohler Related articles:

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