Without a doubt, Mike Tyson is a person with a certain (and large) dose of violencehis story precedes him, hence his threat to the Hulu platform that “heads will roll” did not go unnoticed in front of the series premiere on the Hulu platform Mikebased on his life and which will premiere on Star Plus on August 25th.

In the United States there is a fairly permissive legislation on the possibility of taking someone’s life and bringing it to the screen with adaptations that, generally, for work reasons, alter or manipulate situations that leave sequels in the characters treated. Pam and Tommy o The Lakers dynastyare two examples of this type of biographies told without the permission of the interested parties.

The Hulu platform developed the miniseries based on the life of this legendary and controversial heavyweight and about which Mike Tyson expressed his discomfort as early as February 2021 when he considered it. “A clear cultural appropriation”despite the series, directed by Craig Gillespie (director of I Tanya Y cruel) went on, with Trevinte Rhodes as a leading actor.

He resisted the input

From that point on, Tyson began a systematic smear campaign on Hulu and the miniseries. “Hulu is the streaming version of the slave trade”Was the title of one of the last posts that the boxer uploaded to Instagram.

It’s driven by an image that states, “Don’t be fooled by Hulu. I don’t support your story on my life. We are not in 1822, we are in 2022. They stole my life story and didn’t pay me. For the executives at Hulu, I’m just a black guy who can sell at auction. “

Tyson doesn’t just stay on Instagram, he also spreads his fury on Twitter, where he insists that “Hulu stole my story. They are Goliath and I am David. heads will roll for it“and assured that Hulu’s model of stealing celebrity life rights” is outrageously greedy. “

someone was on your side

Tyson was grateful for the attitude of Dana Bianca, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) who flatly refused to promote the Mike miniseries, despite Hulu offering him “millions of dollars”. “He turned it down because it honors friendship and the dignified treatment of people,” said the former world champion of all weights.

For its part, the showrunner from MikeKarin Gist has not yet addressed this controversy directly. “We wanted to tell an unbiased story and that the audience decide what to think or what to feel. The miniseries is a challenge on what people think they know about Mike and the idea is to end the series with something to think about, ”Gist said.

Mike Tyson, born in New York, is 56 years old, baptized in Islam as Malik Abdul Azis, he was twice world champion and the youngest to reach that crown of history, since he was 20 when he beat Trevor Berbick. His reign lasted until 1990 when he was defeated by James Douglas.

In 1992 fHe was arrested for the rape of Desiree Washington.an 18-year-old model, and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

He was paroled for good behavior in March 1995 and regained the world title in 1996to lose it months later with Evandro Holyfield, who, in the rematch, bit his ear and was disqualified. He continued to fight with different luck, but without that ferocity with which he knew how to assert himself.

He retired in June 2005 after losing to Irishman Kevin McBride. He fought in poor condition and weighed 105 kilograms. This was his third consecutive defeat which led the boxer to announce his retirement: “I can’t go on with this, I can’t keep lying to myself. I will not continue to spoil this sport. It is simply my end; it was over”.

He is considered one of the greatest boxers of all time and was inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame in 2010.

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