Retired boxer mike tyson promises to talk about everything in his oneman show, from biting evander holyfields ear to his prison time for rape charges. A bareknuckled, tellall memoir from mike tyson, the onetime heavyweight champion of the worldand a legend both in and out of the ring. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the first round. The undisputed truth was an american, 1970s motown recording act, assembled by record producer norman whitfield as a means for being able to experiment with his psychedelic soul production techniques. Tyson, unsurprisingly, has a lot of back story behind him, and though hes not getting back in the ring any time soon, hell be returning to the stage pretty soon. Mike tysons undisputed truth the books 10 most astonishing claims in his new autobiography, the former world heavyweight champion makes a series of jawdropping revelations published.
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