A fight with Mike Tyson, battles with drugs and alcohol and the Irish-American who lived to tell the tale
Twenty-five years ago, Peter McNeeley was the 'human sacrifice' about to fight Mike Tyson, with Vincent Hogan an interested witness to his build-up. Life went downhill for McNeely after that bout but he's bouncing back as he's been telling the Rocky Road Rewind podcast
Vincent Hogan and Peter McNeeley in Las Vegas in 1995 - the Irish American was Mike Tyson’s first opponent after the controversial heavyweight was released from jail
Peter McNeeley doesn't sound like the man I remember. What I hear instead is the voice of a ghost, the gearing of his speech grasping and heavily slurred. His memories are dug up from behind the thick curtain of damage left by drug and alcohol abuse.
Memories that, to be fair, are plentiful. The challenge is to structure them.
