Matt Harvey is Mike Tyson and this season is Buster Douglas.
This is the bully realizing his best punches no longer send an opponent into psychological and physical retreat. That craft and fortitude are going to be needed to compensate and win — or is the baddest-man-in-the-world stuff all artifice covering up doubt, fear and lack of tenacity?
For Harvey looks as lost as Tyson groping for his mouthpiece on the canvas in Tokyo. And while Tyson would regain his title, he would never again be the baddest man on the planet, never find the skill and will to counter opponents such as Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis, who did not wilt at the sight of him.