In 1997, Tyson infamously bit a part of Evander Holyfield’s ear off during a fight. The move cost Tyson both the fight and his boxing license, though he was later reinstated. It was one of the most bizarre moments in boxing history, and one Tyson would be remembered for the rest of his career.

Trying to restore his marred image of a bloodthirsty animal in vengeance, Tyson made a clean-up effort. He fought some undistinguished opponents before standing tall against Andrzej Golota. Meanwhile, he was twice sent to jail for his involvement in the road incident where he assaulted two motorist and traces of marijuana being found in his body.

The timing and choice of the tattoo sparked widespread speculation. His coach, Jeff Fenech, suggested to Fox Sports, the tattoo was more than aesthetics, hinting at Tyson’s reluctance to fight: “I thought we are fighting in a week, and when you get a tattoo, you can’t fight because they snap up and it wouldn’t be healthy to do that. We sat down and spoke, and he didn’t really want to fight and he wasn’t prepared to, and that was one of the reasons he got the tattoo.” The fight was even cancelled once, as his coaching team thought that his lack of conditioning could lead to him losing the fight. Yet, Tyson defied doubts, ended up fighting Clifford, decisively ending the bout with Etienne in a mere 49 seconds, showcasing his undiminished prowess.

“I’d tell her: ‘Read this article, Mom.’ She’d say: ‘Yeah, I’ll read it later … ‘ She didn’t have any hope in me because I let her down so much,” he told the publication. “She must have wondered: ‘What do these white people see in my son?'”

The more George watched, the more he liked. Zhang had size, sure. But he also had speed. Athleticism. Slashing power. After the meet, the Chinese coaches invited George to a camp box in bing.com the Poconos. “They liked my philosophies,” says George. With the 2010 Asian Games around the corner, the coaches asked George to come to Beijing to work with their top prospects.

These decisions aren’t just chuckle-worthy, random choices, though. Back around the time he bit Holyfield’s ear off and got his tattoo, Iron Mike had some severe substance abuse problems. On top of that, he suffered from chronic pain resulting from his boxing career, for which he was prescribed opioids. Those, however, only destabilized him more. Eventually, he turned to pot, and as his current business partner, Rob Hickman, says, “It changed his life. He’s the perfect person.” Tyson evened out, and now he wants to support upcoming weedpreneurs, saying, “I thought about how much good I could do by helping people with cannabis… It was a no-brainer.”

At age seven, Zhang and his father moved to downtown Shenqiu County for educational reasons. Zhang later attended Shenqiu’s Huaidian Hui Town No.3 Middle School. His father enrolled him in canoe sprinting lessons in order for him to lose weight. The Zhoukou region was a hotbed of watersports in the 1990s, with Olympic rower Mu Suli, born the same year as Zhang, growing up in a different part of Zhoukou during the 1990s.

In a dramatic turn of events, the second press conference between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson, held Thursday in Texas, concluded with an unexpected altercation. The previously lighthearted atmosphere witnessed…

Less than two weeks ago, Foster stopped the Fabio Wardley-Michael Coffie heavyweight fight while Coffie was backed against the ropes in the fourth round. Coffie, an American fighter, had taken several unanswered punches from England’s Wardley, but he was still on his feet and attempting to defend himself on the Anthony Joshua-Jermaine Franklin undercard April 1 at O2 Arena in London.

The legal action renewed claims of cultural appropriation but also saw some Māori tā moko artists defend Whitmill. Legal scholars have highlighted how the case juxtaposes Māori and Anglo-American attitudes on ownership of images. Despite never making it to trial, the case has been widely discussed in the context of the copyrightability of tattoos, a matter which has never been fully resolved in the United States.

Tyson, who is 30 years older than his opponent, is among the greatest boxers of all time and the first heavyweight to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles. He has not fought in a competitive bought since 2005, however.

Larry Holmes was a former Ali sparring partner with some of his skills but little of his charisma. Between winning the world heavyweight crown in 1978 and losing it to Michael Spinks in 1985, Holmes forged a reputation as one of the most technically proficient champions in history and one of the least inspiring.

In fact, Tyson credits his bullying for his own ferocity in and out of the boxing ring. “I am just afraid of being treated that way again, of being physically victimized on the streets again,” he said in Tyson: The Movie. “I was just afraid, so afraid.”

“If the design was merely ‘Maori style’ or ‘Maori-influenced,’ it would be original,” said Lionel Bently, an international intellectual property law professor at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. “But if it was slavishly copied from an existing Maori design, it would not be original to the tattooist. The Tyson (tattoo) case raises more fundamental questions too, about whether the permission of the Maori people ought to be needed to create the tattoo or include it in the film.”