I still cannot find that link but I'll post this one up instead -
Mike Tyson's Playboy Interview
Just before Mike Tyson was allowed back to boxing he was interviewed by the Playboy magazine. Here are some of the things he said during the interview.
What kind of neighborhood did he grow up in?
You go into the heart of Brownsville, looks like World War Two hit it. The buildings aren't stable. Here they'd put up a new one. In Brownsville they leave it, then it falls and kills people --. It's rare in that neighborhood to see a guy who gets straight A's in school, who goes to school every day. Instead, you see a guy like me-in trouble all his life. Everybody says, "He'll be in prison for the rest of his life."
What about his home in Brownsville?
"Apartment. Very small. Four, five people would stay over till they got situated. It was hard paying the bills: water bills, light bills. Light goes off, heat goes off, water goes off. Have to pay somebody to go down there to handle the mechanics."
What did he contribute to boxing?
"I took it back to its raw form. Kill or be killed. The winner gets it all. That is what people want. I gave everybody what they want. And they paid me for it. People are afraid I'm going to unmask them for what they are. Hypocrites."
What about people in boxing business?
"People in Don King posse. He is more visible than anybody else, but he's not the worst. He's not the worst, trust me --. They are scum. They should stand on their mother's shoulders and kiss my ass. They say I have no character. You don't accomplish what I've accomplished without character.
What about conviction for raping Desire Washington?
"She comes to my room, and takes off her panty shield, ready to f-, I f- her s- on her a-, s- all over her. I perform f--- on her. Then you're going to tell me I took some a-? I'm holding you down, s-- your a-? I don't care if you believe it or not. Look at the common sense behind it. A lot of young women don't understand what they're getting into. They don't know what they're into when they lock themselves in a room and engage in sex with a man who knows how to handle a woman."
What did they do to him in prison?
"I did three years in prison, I was denied workout and training and came back and still won a title.-- you can't wait to get home. I was happy to make it through the day without being written up."
Does he worry about his image?
"What image do I need to worry about? I've been in prison. I've been convicted of rape. I've had problems in and out of court. Are you kidding me? I'm not going to dance to nobody's tune."
What about the night he bit Holyfield?
"I was angry. He was butting me with his head. I was hurt in the first and second rounds. No one believed me until they saw the film. I blacked out. Then the second fight. Whoa, I had that feeling again. And then it clicked. I saw him looking at my eyes, and I said, "This M------r." George Foreman said Holyfield is the dirtiest fighter he's ever seen. That first fight I didn't know what happened. I wasn't even feeling the punches. You couldn't see them, you could hear them, but I didn't feel them. I was numb. I was getting hit and didn't feel them and couldn't do anything. He did the head butting intentionally. He knows he did it and the ref knows he did. He did it intentionally."
What about Black Athletes making big money in athletic business?
"We never broke the cycle, because we detest what we are-. Why can't Michael Jordan do something about having some black ownership in the NBA? Because there's not enough protest for it.
What about politics?
All Black people are into politics, whether they like it or not. People in control say, "We're going to give them welfare. Take away welfare. How hard are we going to work there Blacks? How much will they take?" They know how much we'll take, how many people they can kill before we retaliate. Nothing changes. They kill us. Abuse us. And we burn our neighborhoods down? Show our range by taking it out on one another. Why are we killing each other? Because we are mad at what you did to us. -I don't like Newt Gingrich. I think he's racist and an intellectual bigot.
Mike Tyson was recently allowed back into boxing. His license was taken away when he bit Holyfield in a 1997 fight. He was also fined $3 million. He thought he would be allowed back because the boxing industry needs the money he generates. He is the most famous boxer since Mohammed Ali. He is also the most controversial. He has had more fights out of the boxing ring as he has had in the ring. He has spent time in and out of court. The media calls him names and he answers back.
Tyson was born on June 30, 1966 in Brownsville section of Brooklyn. At age 10 he became a street kid and did pick pocketing, snatching purses and general stealing. By age 13 he had been arrested by the police 38 times and eventually he ended up in a reformatory school where he learnt boxing. In 1985, at age 19 he had won 15 victories. In 1986 he won the heavyweight championship, the youngest ever to win that title. Since then most of his fights never went to round 12, only 3 times. 39 times he won by knockout.
In 1988 he generated $20 million when he fought Michael Spinks, $30 million in 1996 when he fought Bruno. The fight with Holyfield generated $90 million and had more than 1.8 million viewers.
A 1990 fight with Alex Stewart was cancelled because Mike was involved in a bar fight with woman who hit him with a champagne bottle. When it was over the woman " was in a bad" shape with Tyson shouting "the bitch deserved it."
He's main hobby is raising pigeons. When he was young almost hanged for stealing pigeons, someone saved his life.
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