Mike Tyson’s career is colorful and tumultuous and several significant chapters are frequently revisited by the former boxer himself, his fans and also his detractors.
The time he bit Evander Holyfield’s ear is, at the same time, the worst moment of his career in the ring and also the most famous. There are also his escapades outside the ring, his run-ins with the law, appearances in the cinema, on TV, in wrestling rings and, basically, everywhere.
Mike Tyson became a larger than life character, like his strike force at the time.
That’s why, presumably, he doesn’t go with the back of the spoon when he promotes his cannabis-derived products.
Tyson eats ears
For the past few years, talk has alternated between Tyson’s in-ring returns and his businesses surrounding cannabis. It’s not confusing, it’s the essence of the life of the former world champion in his fifties. He trains to fight, smokes weed, grows it, and he does podcasts to talk about it all.
Still not so bad for a lifestyle in our opinion.
Except that for a few months, his company Tyson 2.0 has been unveiling its products and services in California and let’s say that the marketing team does not wade into subtlety, far from it.
For example, “ediblesin the shape of ears called Mike Bites (Mike bites). It’s in bad taste, and it’s not the first time Tyson has taken a laugh at the fact that he ripped off a piece of another human’s ear.
This is where we dare to ask: WHY?
Selling cannabis, ok, it’s a company like any other. Doing comedy, performing, podcasting, wrestling, boxing, it’s okay, Tyson can do whatever he wants. But laughing at a crime we’ve committed?
Seems that’s where the line should be drawn.
That’s probably why Evander Holyfield, twenty years later, still wants to jump in the ring with him.
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