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Diego Maradona: The Enchantment of Sport
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It is one of the strange coincidences that sometimes exist that two reports from the sports world cross these days: the death of Diego Maradona at the age of 60 on Wednesday and the so-called comeback fight of Mike Tyson in Las Vegas on Saturday.
Two of the greatest in their respective fields, two who achieved fame, two who took the extremes of life with them like few others.
Both became world champions in 1986, Maradona in his prime at the World Cup in Mexico, Tyson a few months later in the title fight against Trevor Berbick.
Maradona, the dancer, the solo artist on the ball, Tyson, a barely 20-year-old muscle man who sent everything to the ground that made the mistake of getting too close.
The youngest heavyweight champion in history.
At some point both got off track, so much that they basically couldn't find their way back, although they tried again and again.
The comeback attempts became more and more bizarre over time, the effort to come back, more and more desperate, even more grumpy, on the edge of the caricature.
Maradona as a trainer for a Mexican second division team, Tyson, who dragged himself pitifully from fight minute to fight minute during his last fight so far in 2005 and almost begged the referee to stop.
That was on par with Boris Becker with the fly swatter hat.
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