The Corrupt In Mike Tyson's Madness

Whose truth is it anyway?
Would be accurate to say a child is just an innuendo for a mere hand puppet? Certainly its manipulation is absolute since it is useless by itself. It requires a puppeteer. Perplexed by his troubled childhood environment and later his immense talent is infamous boxer Mike Tyson’s justification for his being a puppet – or a child easily manipulated by the corrupt society of businessmen, the media, and his so called “family”. His prospects as an undefeated champion boxer and finding a new light to an unperturbed lifestyle, free of crime and society’s figures taking advantage of his flaws are distant from Tyson’s grasp is precisely what Toback wants the audience to see. The image of cynical tyrants that consume his blooming
We often see the heavyweight describe his aggressive and wild nature, and an ever-passionate lust for women throughout the doco; almost as if a beastly aura surrounded him. However, we do receive a glimpse into the soft and “emotional” articulate side of him, such as the pigeons that he nurtured, and the fear of not being loved if he could not perform (boxing) well and wimpy shit like that. Mike Tyson absolutely is a ferocious beast and a force to be feared, but this oblivious side of him is completely ridiculous in how much it contradicts his mindset that he openly states at the beginning of the film. It certainly is far from the truth; and if anything he was emotionally
It seems all too ridiculous, that the man, who raised selfdoubtedness in most ferocious and intimidating of fighters, was just a superficial attitude; an act even to the intellectuals. As one such event occurred when A.J. Ayer a professor of logic (77 years of age) was visiting another professor at Bard College in 1987, he went to a fashion party hosted by fashion designer Fernando Sanchez. Ayer noticed that the professional heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson was annoying a model Naomi Campbell. Ayer told Tyson to back off, and Tyson responded, “Do you know who the fuck I am? I’m the heavyweight champion of the world!” Ayer shot back, “And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic. We are both pre-eminent in our field. I suggest that we talk about this like rational men.” Ayer and Tyson did have a conversation, and Naomi Campbell, who was not yet famous, took advantage of this diversion to elude them both.