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I'm a street bum, says broke Tyson
By Anne Campbell, Metro
28 June 2004

Boxing legend Mike Tyson has been sleeping in homeless shelters and living like a 'street bum' since declaring himself bankrupt.

The former heavyweight champion of the world, who once had more than £165million in the bank and regularly earned £5million per fight, also said he has been accepting handouts from drug dealers.

He added: 'For two years I have been a bum, truly a bum in the streets.

'I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters. Unsavoury characters are giving me money and I'm taking it. I need it. The drug dealers, they sympathise with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.'

Tyson, who will be 38 on Wednesday, will fight British boxer Danny Williams on July 30 in an attempt to make some money.

But he is so deeply in debt that even the £7.6million to be paid to him by promoter Don King to settle a lawsuit will not lift him out of the red.

He said: 'When I had money I was an animal. I was so belligerent. I lost all across the board. My life has been a total waste.'

Tyson, who served three years in jail for rape in the 1990s and who bit off part of Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight, still thinks he can be heavyweight champion again.

He added: 'I know I was a tough, bad-ass talking fighter, but I ain't no mob figure. I did my time for the rape. I paid my money to Las Vegas. I paid my dues.

'I ain't the same person I was when I bit that guy's ear off.

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'I've got nowhere to live. I've been crashing with friends, literally sleeping in shelters. Unsavoury characters are giving me money and I'm taking it. I need it. The drug dealers, they sympathise with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.' [/QUOTE]

Now do you think Tyson really talks like that? I don't.

Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch.

This quote seems more accurate:
"I'm a nigger. I'm a big strong nigger that knocks out people and rapes people and rips off people and bullies people," Tyson says.
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[QUOTE=Bogatyr]Now do you think Tyson really talks like that?[/QUOTE]I remember a case awhile back where Denver Police (http://www.grouchyoldcripple.com/archives/000559.html) were prevented from transcribing jig-speak in their reports; the 'papers have probably been voluntarily translating jig into English for some time:“So, when the suspect says ‘Fo shizzle my nizzle,’ the cop needs to transcribe ‘I whole-heartedly concur with you my African-American brother.‘”

Oh, I see. They can speak ebonically, and that's culture. But to transcribe it accurately is racist.

[SIZE=3]No amount of money or education or opportunity will change the nature of the nigger. He always was, always is and always will be a violent, obtuse, myopic, irresponsible, lazy, promiscuous, superstitious savage.

[COLOR=Red]You can't polish a turd.[/COLOR][/SIZE]

[QUOTE=Der Henker][SIZE=3]No amount of money or education or opportunity will change the nature of the nigger. He always was, always is and always will be a violent, obtuse, myopic, irresponsible, lazy, promiscuous, superstitious savage.

[COLOR=Red]You can't polish a turd.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/QUOTE]

And the ones we got were slaves in Africa, too.

He said: 'When I had money I was an animal. I was so belligerent. I lost all across the board. My life has been a total waste.'

Well, it's truly delightful to hear you admit it, Kong.

$165 million dollars - and still just another stoopid coon thug. It always amuses me to no end to watch these sports/rap apes go apeshit when the kikes make them rich: It's the typical ecstatic acquisition of McMansions, green-fur-on-da-dashboard Bentleys, Hope diamond-encrusted "bling", the big "posse" of ass-kissers - all followed by the inevitable return to the gutter which is the natural habitat of Burrheadicus Erectus. From $3,000 purple suits with matching shoes 'n' nighats, Cohibas sucked by pillowy lips, Cristal an' lap dances from whyhos in da V.I.P. - to a rock smoked with a makeshift pipe on a spunk-funky crackhouse sofa.

"I love it! God help me, I love it more than my life......" :D