It's for those children (and his admitted tax problems) that Tyson continues to tour the country doing the live show, even though anyone interested in his story could read his New York Times bestselling book, or watch the Cannes Film Festival favorite documentary, Tyson, or catch the 90-minute HBO special he recorded for Lee.If nothing else, an entrepreneur needs to be a fighter.
He said it made him rededicate himself to his three other children and being a present father for them – even if he spells their names wrong in text messages. When Tyson's daughter Exodus Sierra Tyson was declared brain dead, Tyson rushed from Las Vegas to Los Angeles to be with his family to grieve. When Tyson's sister died at 25, he gave her funeral fit for a statesman with celebrities and fanfare that he never gave her in her life. When his mother died, even though he knew very little about her, he used his boxing earnings to buy her a huge gravestone. And it's his reactions to those deaths that show you what he's made of now. You know what I'm talking about when you buy gifts that are equivalent to a house and you think the house is still your house but it's not your house when the lawyers come," he explained.Įvery so often, though, in Tyson's story, someone died.
The detours were funny and included Tyson's observations of the audience: "You sir, you're not that attractive and you're sitting next to beautiful woman. The show didn't deviate much from the HBO special of the same name directed by Spike Lee. "I did not rape Desiree Washington," he declared before moving on to the next event in his life. "He sued me for $50 million," Tyson laughed.įor Desiree Washington, the woman Tyson was convicted of raping, there was only one minute. During one of the more comic bits in his show, he spent nearly eight minutes imitating and poking fun at Mitch Green, a boxer he defeated in the ring and then mauled in a street fight some time later. Pretty much every topic was on the table, but only for a second if it was something that didn't jibe with Tyson's worldview. He even poked fun at his ex-wife, Robin Givens, and her alleged relationship with Brad Pitt during her divorce. He waxed philosophical about his days as a young punk robbing people in Brownsville, his neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. He talked about how he knew one man as his father but another's name was on his birth certificate.
"I'm wondering the same thing… Man, this is some real weird s-." "I know ya'll are wondering, 'What's Mike Tyson going to do out here on stage?'" he said. Speakers blasted Jay Z's verse from N-s in Paris, chopped down to repeat Tyson's name like a riled-up crowd before a match. The former champ slid onto stage 25 minutes after showtime in high Miami style, white pants and silk patterned shirt in the '90s Versace wheelhouse.
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