After Muhammad Ali, there is no boxer who has made a greater mark on popular culture, for better or worse, than Mike Tyson.
There were cameras trained on him when he was still a teenager, living at manager/trainer/legal guardian Cus D'Amato's house, and over the years he's been the subject of many documentaries, made with or without his cooperation. He's appeared as a cameo and occasionally a straight performer on television, in the movies and in music videos, most famously as the subject of DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's "I Think I Can Beat Mike Tyson." He's been a reliably entertaining guest on myriad late- and late-late-night talk shows. He's also mounted a one-man stage show, "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," directed by Spike Lee and filmed as an HBO special; raced pigeons in Animal Planet's "Taking on Tyson"; starred in the Adult Swim cartoon series "The Mike Tyson Mysteries"; hosted the podcast "Hotboxin' With Mike Tyson" and been a guest on many others. (Not to mention a recent viral video in which he punches a fellow passenger who was annoying him on a plane.)
For all the ups and downs in his career and his life, since sports journalists first took notice of him he has never been long out of public view, and he has never lacked for fans, even after the 1992 rape conviction that sent him to jail for three years.
