Mike Tyson

“The network canceled the interview after the late great Roone Arledge, ABC News president and Barbara Walters’s boss, called to say that any interview with Mike Tyson on ABC was “news,” not “entertainment,” and all news interviews were to be conducted by Ms. Barbara Walters, who had successfully interviewed Mike before and had a relationship with him.”

Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

“Skidding on his backside, the image of Mike Tyson struggling on his knees, searching, then finding his mouthpiece and placing it crookedly into his lips while falling into the arms of Octavio Meyran, is enduring.”

Simon & Schuster: One Season

“When the British heavyweight boxer Julius Francis was beaten decisively by Mike Tyson in January 2000, the human punching bag told an interviewer: I tried in there, you know what I’m sayin’?”

Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time

“When Mike Tyson caught wind of ABC’s decision to give the interview to Barbara, he stuck with me instead, and Jeff Wald got King World to underwrite our interview and commit to airing it on one of King World’s syndicated news programs.”

Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

“Describing tilapia as robust is as inadequate an observation as calling Mike Tyson tough.”

Simon & Schuster: MY EMPIRE OF DIRT