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Apr 5, 2016 · Tyson is the best in the business when it comes to playing the character of Mike Tyson. He makes Daniel Day-Lewis look like a real chump when it comes to getting inside this role.
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Tyson jumped out of the marital frying pan, and straight into the fire of being managed and manipulated by ‘this other piece of shit’, the infamous promoter Don King – ‘a wretched, slimy, reptilian motherfucker’. Tell us what you really think, Mike! Then he took a one-two to the chin. First, he lost his title. Then he was convicted and jailed for r...
Tyson emerged from prison and went straight back to chasing boxing titles and women, but this was a fading caricature of Iron Mike. He won two championship belts basically because his opponents – including Frank Bruno – collapsed from fright at the thought of facing him. Then he lost twice to Evander Holyfield, the second time after biting off part...
In one sense Mike Tyson is surely the ultimate argument against trying to turn sportsmen into ‘role models’ teaching young people how to live a good life. He is a sporting hero in the ring, not a lifestyle coach out of it. But like a few other sporting heroes, he also came to represent something more to his fans. He became a kind of ‘role model’ no...
Where does Tyson stand now in the pantheon of champions? It might be easy to say that he was the best of a bad generation of heavyweights, but in truth it was Tyson who made them look like pushovers. Watch the video of him pulverising Michael Spinks in 1988 in barely 90 seconds, or knocking out assorted opponents with his trademark combination of r...
Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "The Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990.
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Jul 27, 2011 · Tyson spent his time in this switch as a male nurse and once again, the man morphs from a feared man to just a man. In an interview with CBS, he quoted Mark Twain by saying that humans have to be...
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Sep 6, 2022 · Tyson tackles this dramatic performance surprisingly well; it helps that he is supported by such strong actors as Hargitay and guest star Andre Braugher as a sympathetic defense attorney.
Nov 27, 2020 · Now 54, Mike Tyson has changed. While he returns to the ring after a 15-year hiatus on Saturday to fight Roy Jones Jr, he is also a solid actor, does one-man shows on stage and has a cartoon bearing his name on TV.
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Tyson had a tremendous chin and a helluva neck for shock absorbers. His neck was close to 20 inches. Anyone who could be knocking out men when he’s 12, 13 years old is a damn good puncher. He learned the technique to make you miss and catch you clean, but power’s power and punchers are born not made.
