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At a press conference there are frequently ugly words and occasionally shoves exchanged, but for the most part, it is staged - rarely then is there an actual brawl.Probably the most famous of real press conference brawls was the pre-fight Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis press conference and real brawl…despite what happened though, and despite the fight having to be moved, it went on.CREDIT PICTURE talkSPORTMike was a sad shadow of his young Rooney-trained self when he fought LewisMike Tyson was Ring fighter of the year twice, in 86 and 88.He is somewhere between the 4th and 14th heavyweight of all time, depending on which expert is evaluating. Mike's career is essentially two phases, with Kevin Rooney, during which he trained fanatically and prepared religiously, and post Rooney, during which he partied like it was 1999.Mike Tyson was in his Rooney days a unique fighter in his style, short for a heavyweight, with a very short reach, (he is 2 inches shorter than Joe Frazier, with a reach 2 inches shorter than Joe's), he is not a swarmer, but a mid-range volume power puncher. Blessed with incredible speed and strength, he used his short stabbing jab to set up his hooks. He had a KO percentage of 76%, with more of his KO's coming later in fights from accumulated beatings.Mike was never really Mike again after he fired Kevin Rooney and his whole staff. Mike went from training all day and watching film all night to partying 24/7 365. Don King and Robin Givens told him he could have it all, do what he wanted, snort what he wanted, and still be a great fighter - and they were wrong.Mike was even less of a shadow of the Rooney-terror when he returned from prison. He was not even in good fighting form of any kind - and certainly absolutely nothing resembling what he had been in his prime. But he had gotten in at least enough shape to fight by 1997 when he faced Holyfield, and promptly lost twice. Mike then took another year and a half off, and that left only 3 years before he faced Lewis.By the time he faced Lewis, Mike was a fat, out of shape, one punch fighter.He might have been too shot to beat Lewis in the ring, but he wasn’t too shot that he couldn’t start a riot.The infamous Lewis-Tyson press conferencesMike decided when he came in the press conference to make everyone aware of his feelings (Mike was angry Lennox was late to the press conference) - and started towards the stage gesturing and shouting.Boxing: Tyson bites Lewis on leg in public fracasHowever, evidently, things were already tense before Mike started to the stage.Courtney Shand, Lewis’ friend explained in an exclusive clip given to talkSPORT from the new documentary, Lennox: The Untold Story:“There was tension when we got to New York, The night before the press conference, he [Lennox] said ‘If Mike makes a move for me, forget all the money – I’m not backing down from him, I’m not backing up from him.'”Lewis recalled of the moment he realized the fight was happening sooner than scheduled:“All of a sudden I saw him take his hat off, throw it on the ground and start marching towards me,”Boom, I was ready', Lewis recalls punches landed on Tyson in manic press conferenceMike did not punch Lennox, he punched his bodyguard, and he BIT Lennox on the leg!This is what made the riot so interesting, because Mike didn't punch out Lennox, he bit him. The guy who got punched was Lennox's bodyguard. The scene at the Hudson Theatre in New York in January 22, 2002 was truly ugly.Anthony Pitts was Lennox Lewis's bodyguard. As Lennox took the stage at the Hudson Theatre at the press conference to speak, former champion Mike Tyson, dressed in menacing all black, strode angrily towards Lewis and Anthony Pitts reached out to stop him.A Tyson left dropped him and the brawl was on.Tyson would later explain to CNN:“My motivation for approaching Lennox was to stage a faceoff, which I was told both camps had agreed to. It was Lennox's bodyguard who panicked and shoved me. Lennox then threw a right."According to The New York Times, the Lewis camp accused Tyson of biting the champion:Adrian Ogun, Lewis's business manager, and Harold Knight, an assistant trainer for Lewis, told Bloomberg News:“Tyson didn't hit Lennox, but Tyson then bit Lewis on the leg,”Another member of the Lewis camp, who declined to be identified, described the bite as:“an open strawberry, not huge, just below his right knee.''He bit right through the fabric, the person from the Lewis camp said, adding that:“Lewis got a tetanus shot from a local doctor.Lewis would later add wittily:“Boom. I was on it – the first three punches were mine and the first bite was his,”Tyson was actually forced to agree to pay Lewis $335,000 for biting his leg, while contracts addressed the real possibility of foul play ending the fight prematurely. The fighter committing any infraction that caused this would forfeit $3 million of his purse to the other man.Shelly Finkel, Tyson's manager, said he knew nothing of the alleged bite:“As far as I know, there's no truth to it.”The fight, somehow, survived this fiasco, despite having to change locations.Nevada, originally scheduled as home to the bout, passed, refusing to license Tyson in a hearing the week after the brawl. Tennessee licensed Tyson, and Memphis was there to pick up the pieces and the fight was eventually held at The Pyramid, where Lewis knocked Tyson out in eight rounds.The fiasco at the press conference had not just irritated Lennox, it had outraged Manny Steward, who told Lewis as he prepared to go to the ring the night of the fight:“you got to win this one. If you never win another one, you got to get this one!"Lewis, looking back at the brawl at the press conference, made clear the riot was not staged:“When you understand our era of boxing, then you understand the gangsta side, we don’t stage press conference fights. Our era was not for the feint of heart.”'Boom, I was ready', Lewis recalls punches landed on Tyson in manic press conferenceWhile the fight was a one sided beating that was no contender for "Fight of the Year," the press conference riot, meanwhile, won Ring Magazine "Event of the Year" award.CREDIT TO:Boxing: Tyson bites Lewis on leg in public fracas'Boom, I was ready', Lewis recalls punches landed on Tyson in manic press conferenceLennox Lewis confirms Mike Tyson did bite him during infamous brawlLewis says 'first three punches were mine and first bite was his' in Tyson brawl

Do parents stop being parents on social media? Do they take on other agendas? Do they step onto slippery slope?Questions like these often lie at heart of the debate regarding parents on social media[1][1][1][1] [2][2][2][2], because of the fact that parents today lie on cross-roads of boundary lines of pre-social media, and post-social media days; how they engage in parenting is evaluated not only on the benchmark of traditionalist perspectives on parenting, but also on more moral and ethical compasses on whether they are doing it “right”. Amidst the whirlwind of debates in which parents assertively hold their ground, and people from the other camp (non-parents and parents with contrasting worldview) wonder what is “going wrong”, reality remains that children are getting raised not far from this debate, where something as private as relationships are brought forth in the public forefront.It was only last night that I saw a female friend of mine on Facebook, ranting about other people ranting about race problems and posting kid pictures, based on which, she wondered aloud: “What are they looking for? Praise?”I thought that wouldn’t end well, but well, it didn’t go to an extreme—the fire was doused well.Whenever we hear “social media and parents”, the instant pop-up in our minds are pictures of children, information about what they drew last weekend, re-shared memories of how they have grown up from last christmas, funny things they said, how they wash the car with you on Sunday (and did you see that picture, and why didn’t you “like” it?)—in a nutshell, social media brings parenthood centre-stage, and puts the spotlight on children giggling on our carbon footprints.But there are more to it than the giggly. There’s good and there’s grey.The GOODA Digital Village to Raise a Child:This starts from the moment anybody is carrying a child, and chooses to share this news over social media. From sharing USG pictures, to participation in online mothering forums (like babycentre, natural-mothering, etc), people have a greater access to information, sharing and having a sense of belonging to a community through social media than used to be the case before. Moreover, this community is not dependent on the social compulsion of physical proximity, but is more organic in aligning with people you actually like, match with, and get inspired from.Yes, our parents (of pre-social media days) had a community, but it used to be a small community based on who were available in a physical space and time. Right now, the world is the oyster. Further, by tapping onto the pools of these virtual communities, parents also get in touch with “real”-life communities by accessing information of similar people online. That is active networking and a win-win situation for parents.Unity in Diversity:In my doctoral research, which actually focussed on social participation and development of social networks, I came across women, from different ethnic backgrounds and ages, being members of certain groups only because they are “mothers”.And these mothers from different cultures and background, not only talk about how their babies smiled or the funny things their child said. They talked about different parenting styles from their own cultures—and sometimes those were new information for parents getting anxious on relentless thumb-sucking behaviour, for parents looking for new ideas on potty-training, for studying habits—all from other cultures. Mothers talked about the kind of food that could be given to their child when they are sick; what to do do when their child is not listening to them and why a “time out” is not really working. Mothers talked about what it entailed to be a “mother” in another culture. This reality was brought about by social media.It’s no longer “That’s how it has always been done”. It is “that’s how they do it, and maybe we could try it”.You Just Need to Look in the Right Place:Whether it is teething trouble or teeanger problems, parenting these days often include encompassing child psychology. Parents these days want to know why their children did something, by (a) asking them, as well as (b) by making sense of their actions through other kind of information retrieved online. The most my mother would try to retrieve information to understand me, was probably look for my Math exercise book and do a mental calculation on where I am positioned in the class percentile.In the same culture, today, my neighbour in my hometown looks up various forums, psychology magazine articles and news articles on parenting. Social media has taken on the role of being an over-archical grandparent (of yesteryears), making advice available, but not contingent on whether you ask for it.The GREYThe Vulnerabilities:Parenting is a challenging task, especially in the western world where support for it is minimal and exists only in paid forms; probably that is also the reason why parents tend to overshare or engage in narcissistic, exhbitionist behaviour, like “Facebook Motherhood Challenge”[3][3][3][3] where the fact of getting nominated or not, could affect one’s self-esteem and consequent wondering on “did I do that right?”Self-doubts are part of walking along any challenging, unknown territory, but in the continuous over-sharing, and relentless comparisons in social media, where parents post grade report cards when their child scores high, when parents post the hand-painted greetings card received on Father’s Day, the picture their 7 year old took of them on their wedding anniversary—people are just wiggling open their soft spots and self-doubting capacities of whether they are doing it “perfect” and/or “better”.Parents post more things on Facebook, than non-parents; Picture Source: The Mobile State of ParenthoodThese days, children also get to know that their hand-made things are going to be products on social media; they remain eager to hear the verdict on “likes” as well. Parenting becomes a competition and children try to keep up with their parents’ ambitions, a lot of which could become particularly important to adults, who in lieu of a workplace, or networks which could appreciate or celebrate their individual persona, rely just on social media to receive some praise for round-the-clock work they do as parents.Receiving affirmations works great when going through rough times. However, sometimes the boundaries are grey—are they affirmations or are they validations? Why do we need to depend on them as we raise children?All through these, things percolate to children, who also feel they are invested in this performative capacities of being the perfect kids. Exhibitionism brings forth appearances that must be put up, edited and dusted well, as a means of getting some validation.Parental SupervisionParental Supervision over kids can close in, more than it could have been possible in the pre-Internet days. Even with overprotective parents before, it was easy in pre-Internet and pre-cellphone days to have some space rather than have them hovering over their kids activities.Now, all parents need to stalk their children is just a phone, some apps, and a mug of coffee.That’s not necessarily a bad thing in “dangerous-than-before” times in which we live today, but this definitely has an impact on how children are being raised, on development of trust with children and development of self-reliance and individuality in them.The constant ability to be in touch, also puts a traction in face-to-face communication, because unlike in pre-Internet days, where children had curfew times to re-enter homes and had to align their schedule with meeting parents over meals, today—being in touch through ether, often spills over into negotiation done over those boundaries. Parents have got more lenient in having the kid enjoy themselves and have some space of their own as long as they are traceable and are safe. On the other hand, this also means face-to-face communication gets axed down, where parents and kids could not only not see each other, but could also not read body language, that is translated in communication through emojis.There’s no “right” answer to whether social media is a good thing or a bad thing. Social media and us have this love-hate, symbiotic relationship that we love to condemn when it makes us unhappy, and love to eulogize in converse situations. The reality remains so that social media is here to stay and it is on us to see how we could use it to our advantage and keep the tannin out of consumption.Footnotes[1] Facebook’s motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen | Flic Everett[1] Facebook’s motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen | Flic Everett[1] Facebook’s motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen | Flic Everett[1] Facebook’s motherhood challenge makes me want to punch my computer screen | Flic Everett[2] How technology has changed our parenting lives[2] How technology has changed our parenting lives[2] How technology has changed our parenting lives[2] How technology has changed our parenting lives[3] To think not another bloody Facebook challenge![3] To think not another bloody Facebook challenge![3] To think not another bloody Facebook challenge![3] To think not another bloody Facebook challenge!

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