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Snoop Dogg steps into the ring with EA SPORTS “Fight Night Round 4” on Xbox 360 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles Monday night. The event benefitted Snoop Dogg’s Youth Football League.
Snoop Dogg and Mike Tyson battled it out on EA SPORTS “Fight Night Round 4” on Xbox 360 last night in Hollywood. After Tyson lost the game to Snoop Dogg in a four-round head-to-head match, he presented Snoop Dogg’s Youth Football League with a $5,000 check.
Tyson attended the event with his youngest daughter and new wife, and Snoop’s son was also in attendance. Onlookers for the virtual match-up also included Jerry Ferrara from “Entourage” Larenz Tate from “Rescue Me” and Wood Harris from “The Wire.” Attendees also had a chance to experience “Fight Night Round 4,” which players can enjoy at home or with friends on Xbox LIVE. The game launches June 25.
Iron Mike Tyson takes a virtual punch on EA SPORTS “Fight Night Round 4” on Xbox 360 at the House of Blues in Los Angeles Monday night. The game launches June 25.
Like Iron Mike, Lakiha Spicer is an ex- con. As Philly gossip Dan Gross re ports, Spicer, 32, did six months in a federal pen last year for fraud and conspiracy. Prose cutors say she raked in $71,000 for a no- show teaching job from Philadelphia’s Sister Clara Muhammad School. Tyson did three years for rape in the early ’90s. The former- jail birds- turned- lovebirds tied the knot Saturday in a private ceremony at the Las Vegas Hilton.
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Two weeks after his 4-year-old daughter died after accidentally choking herself, Mike Tyson got married for the third time.
The owner of the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino has confirmed to the Associated Press that the former heavyweight champion, 42, and Lakiha Spicer, 32, exchanged vows this past Saturday at 10 p.m. in a short, private ceremony.
Chapel spokesman Shawn Absher tells E! News the two were “very happy and very sincere” before tying the knot.
According to county marriage records, the two got a marriage license about 30 minutes before tying the knot.
Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter Exodus (whom he has with Sol Xochitl) died May 26 after she accidentally got her neck wrapped in a cord from an exercise machine at home.
“We are grateful for the tremendous outpouring of love and prayers from all over the world,” Tyson said in a statement. “There are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus. We ask you now to please respect our need at this very difficult time for privacy to grieve and try to help each other heal.”
Tyson was previously wed to medical school resident Monica Tyson (she filed for divorce on grounds of adultery in 2002). They have two children together.
He was also wed for one year to actress Robin Givens in 1989.
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At 11:45 a.m. Tuesday, 4-year-old Exodus Tyson was taken off life support and pronounced dead after a tragic hanging accident Monday morning.
Phoenix Police say, “Our sympathies go out to the family.” They notified media outlets just after 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Monday around 10:30 a.m., Phoenix Police and paramedics were called out to Tyson’s home in the 6100 block of 10th Ave in Phoenix on reports of an unresponsive child.
CPR was administered and 4-year-old Exodus Tyson was taken to St. Joe’s Hospital. She was on life support for just over a day.
“Tragic accident”
According to police, the victim’s 7-year-old brother discovered the child in distress, and alerted their mother. She found the girl with a cable around her neck, hanging from the treadmill, and immediately called 911.
“Somehow the little girl got something caught across her throat, she became unresponsive, the boy went and got the mother, and the mother came out and found the child,” says Phoenix Police Sgt. Andy Hill.
Phoenix Police are investigating. So far, they believe the incident was accidental.
“Lovely” little girl
Neighbors were stunned and saddened to hear of the accident. “It’s just very sad. The mom is very sweet, very doting… they’re just lovely, they ride their little bikes down the street,” says neighbor Heather Brodhurst.
The 4-year-old victim is the daughter of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, who was out of town at the time of the accident but arrived at the hospital Monday afternoon.
Tyson has been living in central Phoenix for about 5 years with his girlfriend and their two children.
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Phoenix police say boxer Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck on a treadmill cable.
Police Sgt. Andy Hill says the “tragic accident” happened Monday morning at Tyson’s Phoenix home.
Hill says the girl’s mother was cleaning when she sent her 7-year-old son to find her. The boy found his sister in distress and got his mother, who found the girl on a treadmill with her neck on a cable attached to the exercise machine.
The girl’s mother called 911 and began trying to revive her. Officers and fire officials performed CPR on the girl while taking her to the hospital.
She is in what Hill says is “extremely critical condition” and on life support.
Hill says Tyson was out of town but returned to Phoenix immediately after learning of the accident.
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The documentary “Tyson” may make you as woozy as if you’d taken a punch from Iron Mike himself. Listening to the street fighter recite the words of a 19th-century Oxford fop (Oscar Wilde’s “Ballad of Reading Gaol”), I think some of my neurons exploded.
With its overlapping soundtracks and images, this film by indie auteur James Toback (“Two Girls and a Guy,” “Black and White”) gives a taste of what it might be like to live inside Mike Tyson’s mind.
Fast-talking and insistent, aggrieved yet remorseful, Tyson tells his life story, sometimes in two or three recordings at once, as pictures of him multiply and slide across the screen in little boxes. Content crashes into form like “Raging Bull” meets “The Brady Bunch.”
Tyson reviews his Brooklyn beginnings, his first fight (neighborhood bully crushes the head of one of Mike’s beloved pigeons, soon regrets it), his stint as a mugger and a prisoner (juvie was so full of friends “it was like a class reunion”), and his tutelage by his trainer and father figure Cus D’Amato. “If he told me to bite, I’d bite,” says Tyson, although D’Amato was long gone by the time Tyson chomped on both of Evander Holyfield’s ears in 1997. (Holyfield, who had head-butted Tyson, was far from innocent.)
There’s a fierce, ragged poetry to Tyson’s words (“Using the most skullduggery of tricks, I guess I got caught most of the time”) as he casts his gaze over events, both those beyond his control (“I don’t have my friend no more,” he says of D’Amato’s 1985 death. “I just feel naked to the world.”) and those within it. “I never knew that conquering women takes so much from you,” he says.
He continues to maintain his innocence in the 1991 encounter with Desiree Washington that led to three years in prison for a rape conviction, although by then he was already captive to his own demons.
Before his 1990 knockout at the hands of Buster Douglas, one of sport’s greatest upsets, Tyson admits he trained so lazily that he was dropped by a sparring partner.
Having spent his life in the management of chaos, Mike Tyson is a damaged man but a man nonetheless. Dismissing him as an animal, a habit he sometimes falls into himself (“And of course I was being, um, a pig”), is an error. His mind is far from empty, although it’s a lonely, haunted place, and “Tyson” is a howl of humanity. “I never had no idea I would live to be 40 years old,” he reflects, and unlike a rocker or an artist, he means it.
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Mike Tyson – who was accused of beating Robin Givens and was convicted of raping Desiree Washington – says he can relate to Chris Brown, the 19-year-old singer who allegedly beat Rihanna.
“It’s none of my business, but you know what I say about that? I understand the situation. I understand passion with young kids,” Tyson, 42, tells MTV News.
“My personal opinion about that is, he’s just a baby,” adds the former heavyweight champ, who is the subject of a new documentary, Tyson, out Friday. “He’s just a little baby that don’t know how to handle his emotions when it comes to a woman. And he probably hears this and thinks, ‘I know how to handle my emotions’; we all think we do.
“But the fact [is],” Tyson continues, “you look at this person and you might be crazy in love, but we don’t know how to handle those feelings.”
What could have led Brown to beat Rihanna, 21? Tyson blames a “pimp mentality” that is prevalent among young people. “Now you’re a fly guy and a cool guy [you think] … you have to be hard like that,” he says.
In the MTV interview, Tyson appears contrite about his history of violence towards women.
“You can’t abuse them,” he tells MTV. “It’s really sick what you [can] do. She has a space in your heart and you believe you care about her more than anybody in the world.
“Do I think it’s right to beat up a woman? No — hell no,” he adds. “Have I hit a woman before? Hell yeah. Was I wrong? Hell yeah. I’m a product of that environment. Do I regret ever doing that? Hell yeah. Would I do it again? Never.”
Brown — who has pleaded not guilty to two felonies, assault and making criminal threats — is due back in court April 29.
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“That guy scares me,” Iron Mike said at the premiere of James Toback’s docu mentary, “Tyson,” at Loews near Union Square. “I wouldn’t want to be in a room with that guy.” Instead, Tyson’s more of a family man these days. Asked by an audience member if he’d let his kids see the movie, which contains some disturbing scenes, he said, “Of course I would. They’re here right now. I love them.” Also there were Christopher Walken, Nas, Ice-T and RNC Chairman Michael Steele, whose younger sister, Monica, was Tyson’s second wife. The Post’s Jennifer Gould Keil reports that when Tyson was 18, he met Jack Nicholson through photographer Brian Hamill, who said Tyson was destined to be a world champ. Nicholson disagreed: “He’s a little short for that, don’t you think?” Good thing Jack still has his ears.
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