mike tyson
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It's Official: Mike Tyson Is About to Beat Roy Jones Jr.'s Ass and I Have Questions
My email inbox is the boulevard of broken dreams. Every day, I scour through dozens of emails from publicists and other interested parties eager to schedule a guest for my podcast, get something published in The Root or discuss some other matter of business related to the 50/11 other things I have my hands in.…
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Yes, Mike Tyson Wants Smoke With a Great White Shark
I’ve fought racism, parking tickets and cashiers for extra napkins, but I can’t say that I’ve ever thrown hands with a Great White Shark. Mike Tyson, however, is not me—which apparently means that he’s about to beat some shark’s ass. After teasing his return to boxing in May, the former heavyweight champ will kick off…
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Is Jamie Foxx Bulking Up to Portray Mike Tyson in a Biopic? 'It's a Definitive Yes'
Throughout his comedy career, Jamie Foxx gained a reputation as a master impersonator. However, with his Oscar-winning performance in 2004’s Ray, Foxx proved he had acting chops far beyond bit impersonations. According to CNN, it looks like the 52-year-old actor will be bringing that same energy to another famous figure he once impersonated—Mike Tyson. On…
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Hold Up. Is Mike Tyson Really Staging a Comeback?
Mike Tyson is thriving. His podcast, Hotboxin With Mike Tyson, is killing, he’s a best-selling author with a one-man broadway show to his credit and he’s somehow successfully rehabilitated his public image from a feral animal to an innocuous sage in an era where convicted rapists are supposed to be shunned as pariahs. Yet despite…
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The Last O.G. First Look: Tracy Morgan Knows Finding an NYC Apartment 'Is Harder Than Finding a Puerto Rican in a Woody Allen Movie'
The Last O.G. is back and Season 3 kicks off with its premiere titled, “Lookin’ at the Front Door” where, after a failed food truck business, Tray (Tracy Morgan) is on the hunt for his own place (since he really can’t take living with his mama, portrayed by Anna Marie Horsford, anymore). Remember that in…
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Mike Tyson Dishes on Marriage, His Children’s Dating Preferences on T.I.’s ExpediTIously Podcast: ‘Why My Kids Don’t Like Black Kids?’
During a recent interview on T.I.’s ExpediTIously podcast, boxing legend Mike Tyson expressed his frustration at his children’s dating preferences while also admitting his own shortcomings as a father and husband. In 2009, Tyson married his third wife, Lakiha Spicer, who, according to the retired heavyweight champion, has achieved the impossible by finally making him…
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Mike Tyson Reportedly Put the Paws on The Game's Manager for Insinuating That Tupac Was Bisexual
Although I am an adventurous person who enjoys life, I have compiled a running list of things I have permanently banned myself from doing. Included in the things I have no interest in trying are: Crack cocaine Going to a Taylor Swift concert This disrespectful-to-the-ancestors macaroni and cheese recipe. Altocalciphilia trampling: The sexual fetish where…
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Mike Tyson Wants to Host a Weed-Friendly Music Festival in the California Desert Next Year
Mike Tyson likes the marijuana legalization legislation that has been passed in the state of California, and to show that, he is inviting folks to come thmoke at his muthic fethival in the desert next year. In case that was unclear, Mike Tyson plans to host the Kind Music Festival at his yet to be…
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Deontay Wilder Thinks He Could’ve Beaten Peak Mike Tyson; Lennox Lewis Says, ‘Nah, Bruh’
Boxers talk trash; it’s what they do. But WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder may want to slow down on his claims of multigenerational greatness, especially when he’s talking about a man who once threatened to eat another boxer’s kid. One-belt Wilder had the audacity to claim that he could’ve beaten 1986 Mike Tyson, which, for…