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Tyson: Documentary about Mike Tyson
Posted on 9/10/10 at 10:57 am
Posted on 9/10/10 at 10:57 am
I watched it for the first time the other day. That dude is one of a kind. Has anybody else out there seen it? I kinda liked it and it made me in a way feel bad for Mike how he was used by people all of his life. Also, I found it weird about his love of pigeons.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:06 am to 601dawg
Saw it a while back - thought it was pretty fascinating.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:20 am to BrockLanders
Meh; I love Tyson and had big hopes for this documentary but it could have been much better. It didn't show any of his shite-talking highlights from interviews. Not that it had to, but there wasn't as much archival footage as needed.
7/10
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7/10
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Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:20 am to 601dawg
A lot of people fly pigeons, I hear its a "hood" thing
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:29 am to Blue Velvet
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It didn't show any of his shite-talking highlights from interviews.
Yeah it did, or at least the Tyson documentary I watched on Shotime. It had post Lennix Lewis ear bite Tyson going off at a press conference dropping F-Bombs at some white guy and Tyson told him to suck his D***
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:48 am to 601dawg
I liked when he said he was young and they put him in a house with a bunch of white boys and all he could think was "I am about to rob these white MF's"
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:52 am to 601dawg
especially by Don King, King knew Mike was dumb as a bag of rocks and King and his son took full advantage of it!
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:56 am to Blue Velvet
7/10 is more than "meh"
It was great.
It was great.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 11:59 am to Acreboy
Tyson was very detailed about his sex life I kinda thought it was funny ![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/IconLOL.gif)
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Posted on 9/10/10 at 12:01 pm to zmoney2613
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A lot of people fly pigeons, I hear its a "hood" thing
This.
Mike's no angel, but I feel for the fact that the guy was constantly victimized. One of the stories from years back that helped shape my perception of him:
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But without knowing anything about it, Tyson claims he paid King's family members salaries and large consultancy fees for doing virtually nothing whatsoever. One alleged recipient of such payments was Carl King, a stepson of Don King's and also an exclusive boxing manager to King's fighters, an inherent conflict of interest. Carl King was never allowed to handle any of Tyson's affairs, but records show he received consultancy fees from Tyson in excess of $300,000 over the years, along with King's wife, Henrietta, whom Tyson inadvertently paid more than $1.5 million for allegedly decorating Tyson's homes. King's daughter, Debbie, also earned a dubious salary of $52,000 a year, plus expenses, for running the Mike Tyson Fan Club.
After three years under King, Tyson didn't even know he had a fan club. When the fighter found out, his longtime chauffeur and assistant, Rudy Gonzalez, says he and Tyson went to the Fan Club office within King's training facilities in Orwell, Ohio, to see what Tyson had been paying for. When they entered, they saw crates filled with thousands of unopened envelopes from fans, as well as photographs and underwear from women.
Sitting on the floor, opening some of the yellowed mail, Gonzalez, who will also likely be a key witness for Tyson, remembers the then heavyweight champ reading a letter from a woman in the Midwest. Her child had been dying of cancer. She wondered if Tyson could give the kid a call. Gonzalez remembers getting the number, dialing, and passing the phone off to Tyson who, after only a few minutes, hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 12:04 pm to 601dawg
Saw it not too long after it came out, I made me feel kind of bad for him as well. After D'Amato died he had no chance.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 1:24 pm to WelcomeToDeathValley
I really think Mike could have been the greatest of all time if he would have alligned himself with better people.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:04 pm to 601dawg
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I really think Mike could have been the greatest of all time if he would have alligned himself with better people.
I agree. When mike was in his prime, there wasn't anyone that could handle him in the ring.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:07 pm to Blue Velvet
Hell everyone knows about the shite talking. They showed a side no one else knew about. I thought it was frickin great.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:13 pm to TenaciousTiger
I thought it was great too. Made me understand him a little better.
And I agree with the other posters, I wish he wouldn't have gotten messed up. He was something to watch when he was younger.![](https://images.tigerdroppings.com/Images/Icons/Iconbow.gif)
And I agree with the other posters, I wish he wouldn't have gotten messed up. He was something to watch when he was younger.
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Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:14 pm to Afreaux
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Gonzalez, who will also likely be a key witness for Tyson, remembers the then heavyweight champ reading a letter from a woman in the Midwest. Her child had been dying of cancer. She wondered if Tyson could give the kid a call. Gonzalez remembers getting the number, dialing, and passing the phone off to Tyson who, after only a few minutes, hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.
That's pretty rough
Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:22 pm to zmoney2613
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Gonzalez remembers getting the number, dialing, and passing the phone off to Tyson who, after only a few minutes, hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.
damn
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Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:50 pm to NLabosstiger
I liked this documentary, he put everything on the table and didn't let anyone else speak for him.
Posted on 9/10/10 at 2:54 pm to Tactical1
I thought it was great.
"Fascinating" is the best word to describe Tyson.
"Fascinating" is the best word to describe Tyson.
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