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Here is “Iron” Mike Tyson at the Cannes Film Festival this weekend. A documentary on his life is featured at the festival:
“I lived a wild and extreme life,” the former heavyweight champion
told reporters Saturday. “I used drugs. I had altercations with dangerous people. I slept with guys’ wives that wanted to kill me. I’m just happy to be here, you know. It’s just a miracle.”
Tyson spares no details in describing his sex life, and covers his career’s low points, like biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997. He admits to many, many bad decisions. But on one issue, he still refuses to take responsibility. He insists he is innocent of the 1991 rape of an 18-year-old beauty queen for which he served three years in prison.
“I’ve been abusive to women before in my life,” he acknowledged. But in this case, “I thought (the conviction) was wrong, I thought it was unfair.”
That should be an interesting tale. We all know Mike got major issues.
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Mike Tyson use to be the man, loved to see him box but you better not blink because it was over that quickly. He was knocking opponents out left and right. Truly one of the greatest fighters of all times.
Mike needs to write a book or do a high paid interview, I’d watch it! He was the man, knocking *****s out in seconds.
OMG! Thank you Bossip for the shout! You’ve made my day!
BTW / On topic:
This sounds like a great do*****entary and I’m looking forward to seeing it. And I always believed Mike Tyson was innocent of rape.
Pear shaped man.
He had to do something to Holyfield because he kept giving Mike Low Blows and no-one said anything to Holyfield. Mike was the man though knocking guys’ out after the first or second around.
i like mike…i wouldnt let him nibble on my ear, but i like mike…on anti-depressants..
His story is just not that intriguing w/o hearing the infamous lisp.
I have always been trying to ask everthing about him as I could.
People say he is a member of a celeb club
*** We al t hy Ming le.c om ***
I once was there and met my rich boyfriend.
It’s a place to meet the rich and celebrities.
I would love to her him in a interview so I can hear his baby voice
and lisps. lol
His kids look very normal, AMEN! AMEN!
Mike is a real thickums now.
Celebrity Fit Club?
j/k
Much respect to Mike! I think his career in not only boxing but in the public eye period, really shows the beast-like nature of the media. I’m glad he’s alrght now, but at one point, I thought he really needed help. You’re still the man to me Mike! Brownsville all day!
As long as Mike continues to take his meds, he’s alright with me.
I Love Mike Tyson..
HE LOOKS OUT OF SHAPE.HIS AGING IS DEFINTELY SHOWING, I HOPE THE PERSON WHO IS PORTRAYING HIM HAS THAT DISTINCTIVE VOICE LIKE HIM!
I’m sure his medication has something to do with his weight gain.
Mike,
When you bit Evander’s Holyfield’s ear, everyone KNEW that you raped that girl!!!
Mike is gonna fight that KIMBO SLICE n**ga on pay per view.
Big Up to Mike!
Mike did’nt have to rape no one, he was a golddiggers dream
Mike is looking very THICK! I am scared of him.
I actually somehwat respect this quote.
Kids are very cute!
mike has had his problems, but I really respect him now. i feel like he has changed for the better. good luck to you mike, God bless
mike needs to lay off them twinkies
dang mike look so old now.
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I think this do*****entary will be one of the best. Mike is telling all, and if I remember correctly, the 18 beauty pagent contestant went to his hotel room at 2 in the morning. What did she think was going to happen? Popcorn and a late movie????
@ here’s mytwocents and mizz pimpin
It is ignorant negros like you that create a culture and sends a signal in the Black community that Black women do not have rights and do not deserve to be respected. It does not matter what time you go to someones room, they need your CONSENT, PERIOD!
As a young Black woman, I feel unsafe in my community and around Black men because of the constant lack of responsibility and accountability in our community for Black mens reckless and violent behavior.
Its a shame.
I never was convinced beyond the shadow of doubt that Mike was guilty of rape. If I had to call it, I would say that the key elements of what really happen where: that they engaged in consensual sex, that the sex probably got rough and sadistic, that the alledged victim probably felt ‘like’ she was raped b/c when a woman doesn’t get anything out of sex; that’s generally how she feels. Slightly raped, raped of satisfaction, raped of tenderness….Mike probably hit that so agressively and quick, by the time she decided to say no, it was over. Maybe he dismissed her in the same easy manner in which shr arrived. People need to be accountable for the situations that they put themselves in….She went looking for an ‘opportunity’ and she should have known that @ 2am, ain’t nothing going on but a jump-off. And Mike, made himself accessible to a groupie, to someone that he didn’t know very well…he took a risk when he bedded that woman. Woman have been crying rape for years, when it’s not so…and men have been notorious for risking all they have, for some pu**y. It’s nothing new. They both need to be accountable for what did or did not happen. Cause’ where there’s smoke, there is fire, and when you lay down with dogs, expect to get up with flies.
I agree with you Chileboo. I never believed he raped that girl…this is exactly women and men need to make wise decsions and be careful who they lay down with…ecspecially when we all have something to lose…like our lives and freedom.
I love you Mike
@ Chileboo
Co-sign 100%. I never believed he raped the woman and I always felt that things went down just as you described but didn’t know how to say it. Thank you for articulating it because it really angered me that he was wrongly convicted. The woman then went on to be a feminist posterchild like she’s a great example to women by going to a celebrities hotel room at 2am and then lying about being raped. SMH. I’m gald Mike is alive and well and had a chance to tell his story. And look at those pictures, I’m impressed and proud of the lovely children he created and raised. You don’t see his teen daughter acting a fool for the tabloids. You did good Mike! God bless you and keep keeping on!
I guarantee Mike didn’t rape that girl
flabby mike tyson has awaken love him and embrace the youngest heavyweight champ.
I was staying in Indianapolis when the rape case went down, and point blank they where out to hang Mike. What went down is that old white female judge didn’t allow a lot of evidence and witnesses to be permitted in court I believe the story went as said by Mike Tyson. He said she came up to the room they did have consentual sex but after words she told him how she wanted a relationship with him and he said no after that words were said and she stormed out the room angry. Also she claimed she was a virgin prior to Mike hitten it but a white boyfriend from her past wanted to testify, saying that she was not a virgin because he been hittin that but that racist ***** judge didn’t allow him to testify.
Mike Tyson – The Best There Is, The Best There Was and The Best There Ever Will Be!
Not saying he did or didn’t *****ault that woman…but a major point is that NONE OF US was in that room so WE don’t know- PERIIOD! And this nonsense about a woman feeling “raped” if the sex wasn’t good to her is pure ignorance! This is why almost 80% of rapes go unreported because of foolishness like this. And while some people are pulling the “blame the victim” routine because she went to his room at 2am in the morning, which was NOT wise but definitely not a justification for being raped, Big Mike had a WELL-KNOWN history of being violent and abusive towards women so I’m really trying to figure out how it’s so very impossible that he just may have committed the crime? And for folks who aren’t to educated about sexual *****ault, rape is a crime of POWER NOT SEX! I’m not saying he did or didn’t do it, all I’m syaing is that 1) it isn’t a far stretch of the mind to think he could and 2) y’all don’t know and neither do I because we weren’t there! Did you know that most women who are victims of sexual *****ault are *****ualted by a someone they know and trust? 1 out of 4 women will be sexually *****aulted in a lifetime and I truly pray that WHEN not IF it’s someone close to you that you have sense enough not to say the kind of nonsense I’m reading here. Please educate yourselves!
Sorry for typos but some of these ignorant comments irked the hell out of me. And if you’re curious, I was a volunteer at a sexual *****ault/abuse center for women but you can go to the DOJ website to check statistics if you’re interested.
I’ll stop after this but for real (and I’m a Tyson fan by the way) we’re talking about a man who has been BEST known for being violent, abusive, and crazy as ALL hell- he bit a man’s ear of for goodness sake! And some of y’all acting like you can’t even comprehend that he could’ve *****aulted a woman! That’s what I’m trippin’ off of! For real, folk?
Glad to see the champ back on the scene. Guess he is off that crack.
Poor thang !!! so so sad..
Did Mike say he slept with guys? Is he suspect? That prison time might have taken him to a dark place. DL Suspect!!
Mike Tyhson looks like he ate the whole Taco Bell restuarant
in the clearing stands a boxer and a fighter by his trade, and he carries the reminder of every blow that laid him down and cut him till he cried out . . .
@Lemur
Big Mike had a WELL-KNOWN history of being violent and abusive towards women so I’m really trying to figure out how it’s so very impossible that he just may have committed the crime?
If Mike was ‘known’ to have violent and abusive behavior towards women, then I think that fact alone justify’s many of the points people are trying to make…why did this woman go to the hotel room at 2am in the morning of a man that is ‘known’ to be violent and abusive? Why? To play checker’s? To have tea? To talk about her dreams and ambitions? Let’s be logical here, she went to have some sex, and the scenario got out of hand or wasn’t what she thought it was gon’ be. What could have you possibly expected with a man like Mike Tyson?? He was a mentally disturbed man with alot of personal demons and alot of money, and everyone knew that. She should have known what she was getting herself into. A man is man, and he’s not too far from an animal once you get that d**k hard, that’s why you elder’s use to say, don’t play with fire or you might get burned. Some need to chill with all that rhetoric about “no means no”…if you walk into a lion’s den and the lion is hungry, what you think is gonna happen? I prefer old wisdom to new and improved foolishness that makes it easy for people to continue doing stupid things, and not having any accountability.
I am going to say it again he did not have to rape no one, I know people who have been raped, this is my opinion this is a blog, if you think other wise thats your business, that name calling is not called for you dont know me are what I am about so miss me with that *****