It's lately become a mainstream point of view that an ethical society should not allow its members to do business—or art, or sports, or to some extent politics—with people discovered to have committed crimes less heinous than the one Mike Tyson went to jail for. We are now a culture ...
Right?!? I feared I was going to be the only one commenting on this. Tyson is coming to a convention this summer I always go to, and I’m disgusted with it. Why has society given him a pass?! We continually do this for men who rape and abuse women. Reply Tori Coop July 12, ...
Whatever goes on behind the scenes for the rapist, rape is rape. Getty Images And Tyson's career hasn't been cancelled in the wake of his jail time, as both this biopic and the coverage around it shows. It wouldn't be the first time an abuser in film, whether based on a real ...
Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe Tyson eventually was relicensed, and he returned to the ring on January 16, 1999, when he knocked out Franz Botha in the fifth round. On February 6, however, Tyson was sentenced to one year in jail, two years of probation, and...