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There was a three-year stint in prison for rape, the infamous ear-biting episode, scrapes in parking lots and clubs and addiction.
Boxing Legend a New Yorker 'Until...I Die' Gordon Marino 2011
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There was a three-year stint in prison for rape, the infamous ear-biting episode, scrapes in parking lots and clubs and addiction.
Boxing Legend a New Yorker 'Until...I Die' Gordon Marino 2011
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After winning the heavyweight crown, Mr. Tyson was up and down off the canvas of life so often that it was dizzying: marriage and divorce, losing the title, prison, the ear-biting episode, embarrassing boxing losses, remarriages, retirement, the death of a child, drug rehab.
Finding Calm in Mike Tyson's Pigeon Coop Gordon Marino 2011
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Charles told CNN recently that boxing was "one of my loves," whether reporting on Muhammad Ali's later years or covering the ear-biting incident involving Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
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Charles told CNN recently that boxing was "one of my loves," whether reporting on Muhammad Ali's later years or covering the ear-biting incident involving Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
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Australian rugby league has been stunned by an ear-biting scandal.
Warrington Wolves' Chris Bridge to make shock return in Carnegie Nines 2010
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Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield together again for the first time since the infamous ear-biting.
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Again seeing a pop icon like Tyson in the powerful, ear-biting flesh was something.
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Of the cultural, philosophical and psychological, what we might call the spiritual advantages, the ear-biting and eye-gouging grit needed to see a fight through to the bitter end, simple manliness, the faith in the superiority of one's own culture and way of life ... well, let us say that this is our weak spot, isn't it?
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If Tyson had won, we would have been stuck with an unstable rapist and ear-biting cannibal as our heavyweight champion and role model for the hip-hop generation.
Gammerstang commented on the word ear-biting
(noun) - This odd mode of expressing pleasure, which seems to be taken from the practice of animals who, in a playful mood, bite each other's ears, is very common in our old dramatists. "I will bite thee by the ear." Romeo and Juliet. --Rev. Alexander Dyce's Glossary to the Works of Shakespeare, 1902
February 5, 2018