The Don King & Mike Tyson Story

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Damn i didn't know Don King was so evil until i found this on Reddit:

There's an article that I read long ago that I like to share sometimes. No one denies that Iron Mike has done bad things in his lifetime, but he was also seriously fukked over by people. This story moved me the most:

Carl King (Don King's son) was never allowed to handle any of Tyson's affairs, but records show he received consultancy fees from Tyson in excess of $300,000 over the years, along with King's wife, Henrietta, whom Tyson inadvertently paid more than $1.5 million for allegedly decorating Tyson's homes. King's daughter, Debbie, also earned a dubious salary of $52,000 a year, plus expenses, for running the Mike Tyson Fan Club.

After three years under King, Tyson didn't even know he had a fan club. When the fighter found out, his longtime chauffeur and assistant, Rudy Gonzalez, says he and Tyson went to the Fan Club office within King's training facilities in Orwell, Ohio, to see what Tyson had been paying for. When they entered, they saw crates filled with thousands of unopened envelopes from fans.

Sitting on the floor, opening some of the yellowed mail, Gonzalez, who will also likely be a key witness for Tyson, remembers the then heavyweight champ reading a letter from a woman in the Midwest. Her child had been dying of cancer. She wondered if Tyson could give the kid a call. Gonzalez remembers getting the number, dialing, and passing the phone off to Tyson who, after only a few minutes, hung up, cursed King and started to cry. The call was a year too late.
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King charged Tyson 4 grand a week for bathroom towels in Tyson's home.

4 grand. A week. For bath towels.

I suggest everyone check out the 2009 documentary Tyson and his new book Undisputed Truth. Mike has lived a fascinating life that is worth learning the details about.
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and This funny and compassionate incident:

This is actually one of the few Mike Tyson stories that isn't about him being a crazy macho a$$hole.

I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin. When we got to the gorilla cage there was one big silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

... so not very smart, granted, but not mean
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It really is disgusting how Don King did Mike. Reading that book made me realize that he really just needed someone to help him stay on the right path and Don did the absolute opposite. Mike'a whole life and career was plagued by shytty management and by being around shytty people.

At least it seems he's came to terms with it for the most part since he took to Islam. Hopefully he gets his full payback against King someday.
 
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