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This June 28, 1997, file photo shows Mike Tyson biting into the ear of Evander Holyfield in the third round of their WBA heavyweight match in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)

Holy Ears! Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield launch cannabis gummy to play off boxing bite

FILE - Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif., Aug. 2, 2019. Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday, May 10, 2022. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

No charges for Mike Tyson for punching airplane passenger

In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Mr. Tyson is marketing a brand of ear-shaped cannabis edible gummies called "Mike Bites." (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File) **FILE**

Mike Tyson beats fellow passenger bloody on JetBlue flight

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, seen here in the 1997 match when Mr. Tyson bit off part of Mr. Holyfield's ear, will meet Friday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." **FILE**

Boxer does his best Tyson impression by chomping down on opponent

Former heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield, right, shields himself from punches by former MMA star Vitor Belfort, before the boxing bout was stopped in the first round Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021, in Hollywood, Fla. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) **FILE**

Making money in boxing means not saying you’re sorry

Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield, seen here in the 1997 match when Mr. Tyson bit off part of Mr. Holyfield's ear, will meet Friday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show." **FILE**

Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield and a walk down memory lane

In this combination photo, Mike Tyson, left, attends a celebrity golf tournament on Aug. 2, 2019, in Dana Point, Calif. and Jamie Foxx arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Feb. 24, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Tyson says he's producing a limited series about his life and career. Foxx will play the boxing great in the project that also counts Foxx and filmmaker Martin Scorsese as producers. (Photos by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, left, and Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jamie Foxx to play Mike Tyson in boxer’s take on his life

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Hulu on Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, announced it has ordered “Iron Mike,” a limited series about the life of boxing great Mike Tyson. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Hulu sets Mike Tyson miniseries, but the boxer punches back

In a photo provided by Triller, Mike Tyson throws a punch during the third round against Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition boxing bout Saturday, Nov. 28, 2020, in Los Angeles. The bout was unofficially ruled a draw by the WBC judges at ringside. Tyson and Jones fought eight two-minute rounds, and both emerged smiling and apparently healthy from a highly unusual event. (Joe Scarnici/Triller via AP)

Mike Tyson returns to ring, draws in exhibition with Jones

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. are older, wiser, calmer men than the superstars who dominated their sport. Their fight at Staples Center on Saturday night, Nov. 28, is an eight-round exhibition bout with no official judging and limited violence, although the limit depends on whether you're asking the fighters or the California State Athletic Commission. For Tyson and Jones, this unique pay-per-view boxing match is less of a sporting event and more of a chance for two transcendent athletes to prove age is a number and aging is a choice. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

50-something Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr. hungry to fight again

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. got permission from California's athletic commission to return to the boxing ring next month because their fight would be strictly an exhibition of their once-unparalleled skills. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Mike Tyson, Roy Jones promise a fight in “exhibition” return

In this Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 photo, James "Buster" Douglas, the former world heavyweight champion, works with a student at the Thompson Community Center in Columbus, Ohio, where he teaches youth boxing. In one of the more spectacular upsets in sports history, Douglas defeated Mike Tyson, the reigning world heavyweight champion on Feb. 11, 1990, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

30 years after Tyson fight, Buster Douglas is ‘feeling good’

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2019, file photo, Mike Tyson attends a celebrity golf tournament in Dana Point, Calif. Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is set to join the Professional Fighters League and host the new series “Mike Tyson’s New Fight Game: The PFL." Tyson will conduct interviews with fighters, and musicians, entertainers and other famous fans of mixed martial arts. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Former champ Mike Tyson takes a swing at MMA coverage

FILE - In a Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006 file photo, former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pumps his fist in the air during his weigh-in at the Chevrolet Centre in Youngstown, Ohio. Living Word Sanctuary Church is converting a Southington Township, Ohio mansion once owned by Tyson into a house of worship. (AP Photo/Mark A. Stahl, File)

Mike Tyson’s former Ohio home becoming a house of worship

FILE- In this Dec. 2, 2017, file photo, Francis Ngannou, left, hits Alistair Overeem in the first round during a UFC 218 heavyweight mixed martial arts bout, in Detroit. Ngannou defeated Overeem by first-round knockout. Ngannou has knockout power that snaps heads back like Pez dispensers and earned him comparisons to Mike Tyson in his ferocious heyday. Ngannou will compete in the heavyweight champion bout against Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 220. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez, File)

Ngannou could go from homeless to UFC heavyweight champ

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Mike Tyson reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title at 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson was arrested in July 1991 for the rape of 18-year-old Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island, in an Indianapolis hotel room. On March 26, 1992, Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison along with four years of probation. Despite being 25 years old at the time of the crime, he was assigned to the Indiana Youth Center in April 1992, and he was released in March 1995 after serving less than three years of his six-year sentence. During his incarceration, Mike Tyson converted to Islam. He took the Muslim name Malik Abdul Aziz. Due to his conviction, Tyson was required to register as a tier II sex offender under federal law

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“If I was on cannabis, I wouldn’t have bit [Holyfield’s] ear,” Tyson said during a Monday interview with HuffPost. 

Holy Ears! Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield launch cannabis gummy to play off boxing bite →

As boxing legend Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”



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