MIKE, although an unauthorized biopic, is told mostly through playful, tongue-in-cheek narration from Tyson’s 2017 one-man show at the Majestic Theatre, an in-person adaptation of his memoir. MIKE is a story of one of the most gifted boxers of our time it is also the story of the Black women who endured his rage. (He was convicted of rape and sentenced to six years in prison the following year). MIKE tours that antagonistic disposition through Tyson’s relationships with Robin Givens, the Head of the Class actress to whom he was married for eight months, and Desiree Washington, the former Miss Black America contestant who accused him of raping her in 1991. The series depicts Tyson as a man who was taught to fight-and more frighteningly-taught to win those fights, no matter the opponent. “I don’t know how to fight to lose,” says Trevante Rhodes, playing Mike Tyson, in Hulu’s MIKE, a biographical eight-part mini series. For a boxer who has only lost six of 58 fights, the altercations Tyson experienced in his personal life are losses that tarnished his legacy. But his reputation, however credible, is not impenetrable. Few will deny that Mike Tyson is one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.
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