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Der Gefängnisaufenthalt hatte bei Tyson sichtbare Spuren hinterlassen. Er hatte zwanzig Kilo abgenommen, darüber hinaus war er zum Islam konvertiert und hatte sich den Namen „Abdul Aziz” gegeben. Auch wenn dieser Name schon bald wieder aus dem öffentlichen Bewusstsein verschwand, war Tysons Umfeld bestrebt, einen grundlegenden Imagewandel des Boxers zu vollziehen, da sich so ungeahnte Möglichkeiten der Vermarktung ergaben. Viele Boxmanager, die seit seiner Haftentlassung um die Gunst Tysons buhlten, beteuerten wiederholt seinen Wandel zum „besseren Menschen”. Tyson selbst begab sich noch vor seiner ersten Pressekonferenz in Anwesenheit seiner vielen Unterstützer – unter denen auch Muhammad Ali war – in die Moschee in der Nähe des Indiana Youth Centers in Indianapolis, um dort zu beten. Auch Teile der Medien waren bemüht, den Ruf Tysons als verurteilten Vergewaltiger vergessen zu machen. So veröffentlichte die Tageszeitung Dayton Daily News einen Artikel, in welchem fünf Geschworene des damaligen Vergewaltigungsprozesses ihre mittlerweile aufgekommenen Zweifel an Tysons Schuld äußerten.

This marked Rose’s second defeat in a bet against her dad, as she had previously lost to him. On this particular occasion, the stakes were even higher, as the consequence of her loss required her to sport a Mike Tyson-inspired face tattoo.

In July 2020, Mike Tyson announced the creation of Mike Tyson’s Legends Only League. Tyson formed the league in partnership with Sophie Watts and her company, Eros Innovations. The league provides retired professional athletes the opportunity to compete in their respective sport. On November 28, 2020, Mike Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. at the Staples Center in the first event produced under Legends Only League. The event received largely positive reviews and was the highest selling PPV event of 2020, which ranks in the Top-10 for PPV purchased events all-time.

His kayaking coach suggested boxing. Zhang didn’t know a little about boxing. He knew nothing. China Central Television only showed fights on Sunday mornings, and Zhang wasn’t watching. But there was something about the feeling of the gloves. The thwack of the heavy bag. “It just got me excited,” says Zhang. After two weeks of training, he sparred with a provincial champion. “I beat the crap out of him,” says Zhang. “He was bleeding all over his face. That was when I realized I was actually pretty good.”

Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, New York City, on June 30, 1966. He has an older brother named Rodney (born c. 1961) and had an older sister named Denise, box who died of a heart attack at age 24 in February 1990. Tyson’s mother, born in Charlottesville, Virginia, was described as a promiscuous woman who might have been a prostitute. Tyson’s biological father is listed as “Purcell Tyson”, a “humble cab driver” (who was from Jamaica) on his birth certificate, but the man Tyson had known as his father was a pimp named Jimmy Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick was from Grier Town, North Carolina (a predominantly black neighborhood that was annexed by the city of Charlotte), where he was one of the neighborhood’s top baseball players. Kirkpatrick married and had a son, Tyson’s half-brother Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick, who would help to integrate Charlotte high school football in 1965. In 1959, Jimmy Kirkpatrick left his family and moved to Brooklyn, where he met Tyson’s mother, Lorna Mae (Smith) Tyson. Kirkpatrick frequented pool halls, gambled and hung out on the streets. “My father was just a regular street guy caught up in the street world,” Tyson said. Kirkpatrick abandoned the Tyson family around the time Mike was born, leaving Tyson’s mother to care for the children on her own. Kirkpatrick died in 1992.

In 1989, Tyson had only two fights amid personal turmoil. He faced the British boxer Frank Bruno in February. Bruno managed to stun Tyson at the end of the first round, although Tyson went on to knock Bruno out in the fifth round. Tyson then knocked out Carl “The Truth” Williams in the first round in July.

Paul posted a video on his Instagram detailing his new face tattoo—the same one Tyson has (though it’s unclear if Paul’s tattoo is real)—before showing a man with a bite taken out of his ear. Paul then showed himself with a fake ear in his mouth.

Following his undisputed championship win, Tyson’s troubles grew. He left his manager Bill Cayton and fired longtime trainer Kevin Rooney, who helped build his career following D’amato’s death. The issues he faced in his personal Life affected him in reality as he couldn’t train well.

Mike Tyson, who was in Las Vegas at the time of the accident, rushed back to Phoenix upon hearing the news. Both parents, Mike Tyson and his then girlfriend Sol Xochitl, were reported to be in a state of shock and extreme grief. The family asked for privacy as they dealt with this profound loss.

But the controversy from the original tattoo wasn’t the last of it. In THE HANGOVER PART II an exact copy of Tyson’s tattoo was featured on the face of actor Ed Helms as part of a humorous plot device. Whitmill was outraged, and claimed copyright over his tattoo. In 2011 he sued Warner, arguing that they had violated his exclusive right to authorize derivative works. Whitmill’s decision to sue stirred lingering resentments in Aotearoa/New Zealand around the tattoo’s cultural content: in response to the litigation, Maori politician Tau Henare tweeted that it was a “a bit rich” that Tyson’s tattooist was claiming someone had stolen the design, given that he had copied it from Maori without permission.