Mike Tyson has a unique and extremely complicated place in modern history as one of the most ferocious and feared and accomplished heavyweight boxers in the history of the sport—and a polarizing figure who is a convicted rapist and has a long history of violence. Yet he also is something a beloved pop culture figure whose persona has been exploited (or maybe it’s the other way around) in films such as 1999’s “Black & White” (in which he played himself and choked out Robert Downey Jr.’s character) and “The Hangover,” and the animated TV series “Mike Tyson Mysteries,” in which a cartoon Tyson and his team solved mysteries á la the gang from “Scooby-Doo.”
And we haven’t even talked about the tumultuous marriage to TV actress Robin Givens, the wild swings in financial fortune, the white Bengal tigers he kept as pets, the face tattoo …
