Cool Mike Tyson retrospective in pictures

From Sports Illustrated. So long, Mike, you big freak. Doesn't look like much of a dogfighter, does he?

Is he quitting? Whoo! You crazy bastard.

Goodbye you deranged, crazy lug.

Die already, animal.

"I'm gonna gut you like a fish" will rank up as one of his top empty promises, just behind "I'm gonna f*ck you 'til you love me."

SI wrote:

Tyson poses with his surrogate mother, Camille Ewald, in 1985. Ewald, the sister-in-law of Tyson's trainer Cus D'Amato, helped raise him after both his parents died before Tyson turned 21.

I don't know much of Tyson's personal history to verify this, and admittedly he's always been a little, shall we say, off, but how much raising do you really need at 21?

I don't know much of Tyson's personal history to verify this, and admittedly he's always been a little, shall we say, off, but how much raising do you really need at 21?

There was a great piece about Tyson on a Canadian sports channel called "The Score" and it talked about how Tyson was in and out of jeuvinile centres. D'Amato apparently helped raise him. The whole piece was about what would have happened to Tyson if D'Amato didn't die.

Rat Boy wrote:

"I'm gonna gut you like a fish" will rank up as one of his top empty promises, just behind "I'm gonna f*ck you 'til you love me."

I'd take pleasure in guttin' you, bo-ah!

Yeah, uh... This guy's an animal. The only reason he hasn't been locked away for life is he's famous. Every time they let him out or into the ring he does something horrible to someone.

Makes some good chicken, though.