Viewers unhappy with fight

      These are the voices of the disaffected.
      Becky Garza ordered the Evander Holyfield-Mike Tyson heavyweight championship bout and had a small fight party at her home.
      "My husband is a big fight fan and we had another couple over for the fight," Garza said Sunday, a day after Tyson was disqualified in the third round for using Holyfield's head as a chew toy. "We sat down to watch the fight and couldn't believe what we saw. One of our friends had never seen a fight on pay-per-view before and she was saying, `Does this always happen?'"
      Harvey Myron is an avid boxing fan who hosted a party for a dozen friends.
      "With all the hype and stuff, I gave in and ordered it," Myron said. "Everyone who came over pitched in $5. After it was over, everyone was all riled up and I felt bad so I gave everyone their money back."
      But fans who purchased the fight for $59.95 through Prime Cable won't be as fortunate as the guests at Myron's home.
      There will be no refunds or rebates for the bizarre, abbreviated boxing showcase, said Prime Cable director Steve Schorr.
      "It's just like buying a ticket to the event," Schorr said. "We have no control over the event, whether it runs two seconds or 12 rounds, our rate doesn't change."
      Schorr said Prime Cable received a high volume of complaints following Holyfield's three-round victory, but it wasn't as unpopular as Tyson's first-round disqualification triumph over Peter McNeeley in August 1995.
      "The complaints weren't as bad as in the past," Schorr said. "We had a lot more people calling us after Tyson-McNeeley, saying they were cheated."
      Despite its universally derided conclusion, the fight is likely to be the highest rated pay-per-view event in history.
      Pre-fight estimates from Showtime Entertainment Television indicated that between 1.8 and 2 million homes would purchase the fight.
      The first Tyson-Holyfield fight reached 1.6 million sales and currently is the No. 1 pay-per-view fight.
      Schorr said Holyfield-Tyson II could also be the biggest pay-per-view bout in Las Vegas history.
      "We really won't know until (Monday), but I know the pre-fight sales, the people who bought the fight before the day of the broadcast, were the highest we've ever seen," Schorr said. "It was an event, whether you liked it or hated it, that people will be talking about forever."
      But not in kind terms. Myron said he called Prime Cable to ask about a refund shortly after the fight.
      "I called up and the woman I was talking to said they made it clear it's a non-refundable fight," Myron said. "But it never said that anywhere. It wasn't on the recording when I ordered the fight and it wasn't on the screen at all when the fight came on."
      Myron said he called a second time to complain and got nowhere. He attempted to call a third time and couldn't get through.
      "The second time I called they said they had numerous complaints," Myron said. "I tried until after midnight and the lines were busy."
      Myron said he blames Tyson and Don King Productions for the fight's disappointing conclusion.
      "When you called to get the fight, the number was 1-800-885-Tyson. I wasn't calling Holyfield's people," he said. "It's Tyson and Don King. It cracked me up earlier this week when Tyson said he got ripped off by that mosque. That's how I feel. I've got a family, too, and I don't like getting ripped off."
      "This was just a farce," Garza said. "It's the little people who always get hurt in these things. The big people will be OK."