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The streaming planet continues to produce fiction about world sports figures. Now it’s the turn of Mike Tysonthe boxing star whose series will debut August 25 through Star +.
More than a month and a half after its premiere, Disney’s adult platform released the first preview of this bioseries, the full title of which is Mike: Beyond Tyson.
Trevante Rhodes and BJ Miron play the oldest and youngest Tyson respectively in the eight-episode miniseries that chronicles the tumultuous and controversial life of the multiple world heavyweight champion.
The role of Mike Tyson is played by actor Trevante Rhodes.
Created by Steven Rogers, writer of the acclaimed film Me, Tonia (2017) and with Karin Gist (Grey’s Anatomy) as showrunner, 20th Television’s original production sets out to explore the ups and downs of the life and professional career of the most spectacular knockout boxer in boxing history.
From his rise to the top of the sport in the 1980s, his controversial behavior and conviction for rape that led to him in prison in 1992, to his early release for good behavior, his glorious return to the rings and his recent fights, including that rematch with Evander Holyfield where he was disqualified for biting his rival’s ears.
Tyson’s background and his relationship with Don King
Mike, the series about the life of Mike Tyson, will debut August 25 on Star +.
the plot of Mike It also seeks to investigate the social context that has surrounded its history, crossed by themes such as racism, classism, fame, the power of the media, misogyny and the questionable promise of the “American dream” in the United States.
Rhodes, known for his role in in the moonlight (2016) -Oscar-winning film-, plays the more contemporary “Iron Mike”, the youngest boxer in history to win a world heavyweight title.
Russel Hornsby (fences) embodies the remembered and controversial Don King, the boxing promoter and representative of other names in the industry such as Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman and Julio César Chávez, who, like Tyson, have sued him for embezzlement of money , among other crimes.
Mike traces the life and career of the boxer.
King was also famous for creating atmospheres of all sorts of excesses around his athletes, from money and sex to alcohol and gambling. This, added to his financial mismanagement, once led Tyson to consider him a “ruthless, deplorable and greedy” person.
The famous Harvey Keitel also participates in the production as manager and boxing coach Cus D’Amato, and is part of the cast together with Li Eubanks (my name is dolomite) like model Desiree Washington, who sued him for rape.
They are joined by Scott MacDonald (real sugar) in the role of another Tyson trainer; Laura Harris (The KKKlan infiltrator) as his ex-wife Robin Givens and Grace Zabriskie (Twin peaks) as Camile D’Amato, wife of Cus, among others.
The official “Mike: Beyond Tyson” poster.
The latest controversy: a plane crash
A few weeks ago, Tyson was interviewed on the deep night by Jimmy Kimmel after punching a harassing passenger on a flight in mid-April. The driver wanted to review that scene, but Tyson tried to dodge the question.
“Which plane? What flight?” He joked for the first time. But then he referred to the incident: “I was wrong, it should never have happened. It’s me in my early stages as a boy,” he confessed. “I was irritated, tired, drugged and angry,” he added, but quickly made it clear: “It’s not me, I’m usually good.”
Tyson comes from the protagonist of a scandal aboard a plane. Photo Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sport
In the past, the former athlete and current cannabis trader has acknowledged that his wife, Lakiha Spencer, had asked him to stop boarding public planes to avoid such situations.
“He gets mad, but what am I doing on a fucking plane with my friends and a bodyguard who’s supposed to be watching me?” And you said that there are those who try to “provoke” him.
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Source: Clarin
