From The Archive: Riddick Bowe and Ray Mercer take aim at Mike Tyson

Editor’s Note: This feature originally appeared in the February 1990 issue of The Ring Magazine.

By Steve Farhood

THE PUNCHER: “I can brawl; that’s what it’s gonna take. It’s gonna be a knockdown, drag-out war.”

I lay in bed, I think about it all the time. Every night. Five times a night I think about Mike Tyson.

It’s gonna be like the last day of my life, and I gotta fight to get out. It’s gonna be a war. People are gonna be saying, ‘Ray Mercer comes to fight.’ People are gonna be into it.