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Tyson's loss leaves us without a villain

By Ray Ratto
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, June 10, 2002

The conventional wisdom is that, in crushing defeat, Mike Tyson might have found his inner humanity. Which is fine, as far as it goes -- redemption being its own reward and all that. His apparent conversion in the face of Lennox Lewis' persistent right hand, however, causes those folks who like their sports to adhere more closely to the hero-vs.-villain story line to seize up in fright. Tyson had gone to such lengths, after all, to make himself a cartoon character, Dr. Evil With Marti ...

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