European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. March 18, 1987 the stars and strikes Page 23 commentary starts to Rusf Well Joe Louis he Ain t. Dumps by Firpo in was t. What it Wai to jell you the i Ruth was an agony fight. This is Whai the fight mob Calls it when two Guys Maul around the. Ring All night Long like a couple of stuffed toys. I now know where Bon Crusher got his name. He iries 10 hug you to death. It looked More like the Harvest Moon Ball than a fistfight. Two Interior decorators could have done each other More damage. It was a Gavotte. The last Lime you saw anything this stately one of the parties was carrying n Tan and the other had a powdered wig you can Tell Jack Dempsey an Tunney and Ati they Don t have to move Over just yet. Jack John son Marciano and John l. Sullivan your reputations Are still Safe from Mike Tyson. He threw a shutout at James Odell Smith for Merly known As Boner usher a week ago sat urday night but that was t hard to do. Old Bone never had the Bat off his shoulder. He just stood there taking pitches. He should have bought a ticket. One Guy would t fight and the other Guy could t. Mike Tyson acted As if he d been asked to climb the Mauc Horn he did t need gloves he needed a rope or a ladder. The fight was supposed to give us a real heavy weight Champion for a change. After All these Guys named Buster and Pink Lon and Wilch spoon. Five or six Guys named Tony and a Bunch of fal old parties who looked like chocolate eclairs in shorts we were supposed to have a pug for the Ages again. A make Way far the Champ Guy. We were going to get a Guy you could Call a Manas a mauler or Brown bomber without Blush ing. Or trying not Lolau a. The kind or Guy you could write about. The kind of Guy who could go into a bar and announce i can lick any Man in the  the kind of Guy who would make you say things Tike. Shake the hand that Shook the hand of Mike  a Guy who would go into the language. The kind where when you did get into a barroom fight somebody would demand who do you think you Are Mike Tyson this is the kind of fighter we were led 10 believe Mike Tyson was. Echoes of Louis Rocky the mauler. Echoes of Jack Sharkey maybe. Johnny Risko. Louis could have fought him in a Tuxedo. A would t have known he d shown up. Even the ads before the Light warned you that you should go Sec him the Way your Grandfather wished he had seen Dempsey or your father Rocky Marciano. Relics from the Days when the heavy weight Champion was deemed to be a Force of a lure like a Hurricane an earthquake or a dam burst. When a heavyweight title fight was an Amer ican historical institution like a Bunker Hill or a Gettysburg address or a presidential inaugural. You told Lime by it. Mike Tyson was supposed to be a throwback to that time and place. They said thai he fought the Way the old timers did that watching him make Mike Tyson right comes up Short trying la hit Banc Crusher Mif h i know Iii ret it from the  his fight was like watching a Tiger stalk or a Rhino charge. A Leopard in a tree. He was supposed to fight out of a Crouch like Dempsey and to make his tight like inc German army. All firepower. Coming at you from ail directions. You half expected Bon Crusher to ask after the evening was Over How Many Guys did i fight in there tonight Well of course Bon Crusher did t tight any body. His gun never left he Holster till there were about nine seconds left in the final round. In was like a Guy making faces at you from a car window. Well Mike Tyson was a Long Way from thai buildup. Boner usher Smith is an imposing physical spec Imen to be sure. He looks Tike a russian statue. Unfortunately he tights like one too. Thy last time anything this slow came into View the titanic hit  this was t supposed to be Bort Crusher s night. He was just the instrument. Iron Mike Tyson was the soloist Iron Mike knew it. After the fight he confessed ruefully "1 know i la get it from the critics no just because this Guy would t fight  but All the great ones realty require of an oppo nent is that he shows up. In does t always Lake two to tangle in the fight business. After All in was Louis who said of an opponent he can run. Hut he can t  with Tyson they can. It would t be fair to say that Iron Mike is really the tin Man. But he might be Lucky that Bone Crusher did t fight. There s an old axiom in the fight game i hat a Good big Man will always beat a Good Little Man. This was no lest. Bon Crusher made his fight like a Guy waiting fora trolley. Next to a Beehive but inc fact remains thai Mike Tyson gave Boner usher 5 inches in height 11 inches in reach and n pounds in weigh. He looked most of the night More As if he was trying to jump into Bonc Crusher s arms than to fight him. The fight seemed just out of his reach. Maybe immortality is too because Rocky mar clone s reach was not Long enough that he could scratch his cars. But he found a Way to bust up Guys with it. And he was never As tall As the Guys he fought. When inc fight started that is. Tyson was Stillo Olding up to Bon Crusher when the night was Over. The legend of Iron Mike Tyson is on hold ii May stay that Way owing to circumstances beyond his control Talent. The lid angst to Tawf no in uries in one car mishap Michael Spinks charged in Accident former Champion Michael Spinks Wilmington Del. A former heavyweight boxing Champion Michael Spinks was charged with driving while under the influence of Ako Hul monday morning after his car crashed into a Rotl. And a tree about two Miles from hit Wil minion Home according to police. The 30-year-old fighter was t Hurt in the one car Accident on Alapocas drive Ai 5 30 . In Alapocas Woods and he was released pending a March 26 hearing in j Uslice of the peace court new Castle county police said. Spinks told police another vehicle forced him of Fth Road and caused the Accident. Spinks was a Farmer undisputed Light heavyweight Champion who became the first Light heat Wright Champion of win the heavyweight Lille when he pulp firm a Larry Holmes on sept. 21, 1985. He de fended his Lille once with a fourth round knockout of Stefan Tan Siad. The Inu rnai ional Boving federation recently with Are the championship rec i ignition from him fur his Ritsul 10 sign for a  title detenu.1 against Tony Tucker. Spinks wus the 165-Pound Tim non in the 176 olympics and is the brother of Leon Spinks who won the impound title in the 1976 olympics and who in 1978 upset Muhammad All fur inc undisputed heavyweight title