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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: mrtonguetwista on June 21, 2003, 11:38:57 AM
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Mike,Mike,Mike...
NEW YORK - Mike Tyson was arrested early Saturday after a brawl with two men outside a Brooklyn hotel and was charged with assault and disorderly conduct.
The former heavyweight champion was treated for minor cuts to his hands after the two men apparently retrieved some type of pole from the hotel lobby and used it against him, police said. They had no further information on the pole.
The brawl broke out about 5:30 a.m. outside the hotel where Tyson was staying, police said. They did not immediately have information on what started the fight.
The Brooklyn district attorney's office said Tyson was expected to be arraigned late Saturday or early Sunday.
Shelly Finkel, adviser to the 36-year-old Brooklyn-born boxer, did not know any of the details of the confrontation.
"I don't know anything except what I heard this morning," Finkel said. "I'm in the process of trying to find out."
Finkel said he spoke to Tyson on Tuesday, and the boxer said he planned to travel to Phoenix.
The two other men in the brawl also were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Police identified one as Nestor Alvarez, 24, but they did not identify the other.
One of the two men and a woman who was with them were taken to Bellevue Hospital and treated for minor injuries, police said. Tyson was not taken to the hospital.
Tyson, with a long history of legal trouble, was convicted of rape in 1992 and was sentenced to six years in prison. He served three years before being released on parole.
In a Fox television interview last month, Tyson said he was so angry about the conviction he wanted to rape his accuser, former beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington, and her mother.
In 1997, he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear during a bout. Tyson's Nevada boxing license was suspended for a year, and he was fined $3 million. In 1999, he was released from a Maryland jail after serving 3 1/2 months for assaulting the two motorists.
Last year, he threw a punch at Lennox Lewis' bodyguard at a news conference announcing a fight between the two, setting off a brawl between Tyson and Lewis.
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This guy has no self-control...
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he might have been sparring with them and he went out of control
nah lets not hate yet cos we dont know he could have been provoked
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shit, cant keep himself outta trouble.
hes like shane warn in australia, always got something wrong.
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Jesus Christ, this dude is just a walking incident.
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I dunno guys. I think it'd be hard being Mike Tyson. I heard an interview with Hulk Hogan one time, and he said he had it hard, because everytime he went in a bar, somebody in there wanted to be the guy that whipped Hulk Hogan's ass.
Mike probably gets people coming up to him all the time "Oh, you're Iron Mike? I'll whip your ass, you bitch" stuff like that, I'd almost bet money this thing was provoked. People do stuff like this all the time to people that fight for a living.
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hes always in trouble damn he should retire and stay home lol ;D
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i'd say he was provoked
people need to give this dude a break, on the bright side of things, they attacked his ass with a pole and they end up in hospital, haha
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well i heard he knocked 1 guy out with 1 punch then fuked up the other guy who had the pole :o
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Stop bad mouthing Tyson in regards to this.
Tyson thought one of the guys was going to pull out a gun so Tyson defended himself and the other tried to hit Tyson with a metal pole and Tyson defended himself.
So it Was Self Defence.