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Saturday, March 14, 2009 at 8:23PM Terrific New Trailer for the Documentary 'Tyson'
When Mike Tyson showed he wasn't invincible - the night Buster Douglas knocked him out in Japan - the odds were so miniscule that Iron Mike would lose, Vegas took it off the board. You couldn't bet on Buster Douglas to win.

Since that night in 1990, it has been downhill for a man quickly becoming the greatest heavyweight of his generation, and certainly the most feared. But the downhill slide hasn't just been in the ring, of course. A new documentary directed by James Toback gets up close and personal with Tyson to find out where it went so incredibly and irretrievably wrong.
Tyson did well at Sundance and will start its theatrical run in the U.S. next month, although it premieres in the U.K. on March 27th. Here's a fantastic new trailer for the film, courtesy of Trailer Addict.



Reader Comments (15)
I was a little surprised to see this, I had no idea anyone outside of authorities were keeping notice of Mike Tyson. Of all the people a film could be made about... why Tyson? I wondered. Then I watched the trailer and rather than the abrasive loudmouth style that I'd grown tired of seeing in recent years, I saw what looked like shades of the man he used to be. A man once humbled by his own meteoric success now seems humbled by the meteoric fall he took back to Earth. There was actually a sincerity, a certain bittersweet sadness about him as he talked in just those brief moments recounting his life.
This might actually be a film worth seeing for those fight fans who followed him for a time before he faltered. To me things went immediately downhill the moment Cus D'amato passed away. I still wonder what might have become of Tyson had D'amato lived long enough to school the boy into being a responsible man with a keen eye for how the boxing game works. That much we'll never know and I've seen enough news reports to piece together the unraveling. What makes this so potentially interesting is seeing Tyson himself realizing it and coming to terms with what he could've had and how much he's lost.
The film ranges from Tyson’s earliest memories of growing up on the mean streets of Brooklyn through his entry into the world of boxing, to his rollercoaster ride in the funhouse of worldwide fame and fortunes won and lost. It is the story of a legendary and uniquely controversial international athletic icon, a figure conjuring radical questions of race and class.
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