‘He’s got that beast in him’: the difficult legacy of Mike Tyson

The boxer has disowned a new scripted series about his life, as those who have known him continue to have complicated thoughts on who he is and was

Mike Tyson remembers throwing his first punch at a bully. The guy ripped the head off my pigeon," the retired boxer once recalled in a radio interview. This was the first thing I ever loved in my life, the pigeon. That was the first time I threw a punch."

Half a century later, the last great undisputed world heavyweight champ is angry again. This time the perceived bully is the Disney-owned streaming service Hulu. Last week it launched Mike, a scripted series about Tyson's life starring Moonlight's Trevante Rhodes as the self-declared baddest man on the planet.