Mike Tyson on why Teddy Atlas really pulled a gun on him

Bullsquirt.

Watch the interviews of Foreman where reporters are bringing back his meltdown vs Ali and his millions of excuses. Georges takes it on the chin and shows he's overcame his demons, while being funny to the reporter and the audience.

Tyson's still the same street thug who never showed any remorse for his deeds and acts like the world owes him something.

This waste of a human being has been refused entry in many countries, because they know deep down he's still the same evil SOB.

Guy's a textbook psychopath, plain and simple.

But the kind of psychopath you wouldn't mind bumping into, apparently...

 

POLISHING A TOO-TARNISHED IMAGE

The campaign to make Mike Tyson likable began in 1985, two years after he was released from an upstate New York reform school. Tyson was a hardened juvenile delinquent, a mugger who had been arrested more than two dozen times. But now, at 19, ready to contend for the heavyweight boxing title, Tyson needed a fresh image.

Something that would sell.

"To overcome the stigma attached to Mike's juvenile delinquent past," Bill Cayton, Tyson's former co-manager, said he arranged for the boxer to appear in public service advertisements for the FBI, New York City Police Department, Internal Revenue Service and United Cerebral Palsy.

The multimedia campaigns were designed to "foster the image of Mike as civic-minded and law-abiding," Cayton said. In one spot Tyson urged taxpayers to get their returns in early. In another he declared: "It takes a tougher guy than me to be a police officer in New York."

The public relations scrubbing continued throughout Tyson's boxing career; his handlers deemed it necessary. For while Tyson was giving away turkeys in inner-city neighborhoods from Washington to Los Angeles, he was drawing charges in and out of court that he had fondled, harassed, molested or threatened to kill more than a dozen women.

Tyson denied the charges -- once, twice, a dozen times. But last Monday night, when a jury in Indianapolis decided not to believe his latest denial, "Iron Mike" Tyson left the courthouse with an image no turkey giveaway could fix: He was a convicted ******.

 

FIRE AND FEAR: The inside story of Mike Tyson, by Jose Torres

pg 107:

''You know something, he said, "I like to hurt women
when I make love to them." He stopped, searching my face
for a reaction. But there was none. "I like to hear them scream
with pain, to see them bleed," he said as he put his right arm
around me. "It gives me pleasure."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

"You mean to tell me that you don't have any idea why
you do that to women?"

Mike shook his head."

 

Judgment Day

"Dr. Thomas Richardson testified that Washington’s vaginal abrasions were consistent with wounds caused during raipe and were unlikely to have been inflicted any other way. Foster, Tyson’s chauffeur, said Washington appeared to be “in a state of shock” when she left the hotel. “She looked dazed, disoriented. She seemed scared.”


"The record of Iron Mike’s relations with women has always been sordid, dismal and violent. As a young tough on the streets of the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, Tyson has told interviewers, he used to mug elderly women, pick pockets and steal from fruit stands. Even after he had been saved from the mean streets by the legendary boxing manager Cus D’Amato, Tyson continued his vulgar ways. At one point, one of D’Amato’s trainers, Teddy Atlas, pulled a gun on Tyson after the teenage fighter allegedly fondled Atlas’s 12-year-old sister-in-law. And nine months before becoming heavyweight champion in 1986, Tyson turned violent in an Albany shopping mall after a sales clerk he propositioned turned him down. That same evening a furious Tyson was tossed out of a local movie theater after another woman rebuffed his advances.

Both his ex-wife, actress Robin Givens, and his onetime steady, model Naomi Campbell, have had their share of troubles with Tyson. During their stormy eight months together, Givens claimed Tyson was at times loving, at other times destructive—like a teddy bear who would suddenly turn into an angry grizzly.

Other women say they too have been victims of Tyson’s penchant for crude sexual overtures. In December 1988 Sandra Miller and Lori Davis both sued Tyson for grabbing their breasts and buttocks in Bentley’s Disco in Manhattan. Miller received only $100 after a jury said Tyson’s behavior was “not outrageous.” Davis’s case was quietly settled out of court. Later that same year, Givens’s former publicist Phyllis Polaner sued Tyson for physically and sexually assaulting her. Polaner’s case is still pending. In his biography of the boxer, former light-heavyweight champion and ex-Tyson buddy José Torres quotes Tyson as saying, “I like to hurt women when I make love to them. I like to hear them scream with pain, to see them bleed.” (Tyson has denied the quote.)"

 

Yeah Teddy pulled a gun on him because he was jealous and wanted him to go train with him.......... alrighty then.

Tyson obviously still gets rattled when put on the spot and questioned about his past.

 

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