Though he is known for his boxing talents, the icon’s face has also become a permanent fixture in sports history after he got a tribal tattoo inked on the left..
Though he is known for his boxing talents, the icon’s face has also become a permanent fixture in sports history after he got a tribal tattoo inked on the left side of his temple in 2003. Seriously, this tattoo has become part of Iron Mike’s persona.
Shortly after the Olympics, Dino Duva was invited to Beijing to consult for the Chinese Boxing Federation. In Zhang, he saw not just talent but unprecedented ambition. At the time, Chinese boxers didn’t turn pro. Few of the country’s athletes did. “When you’re a national athlete in China, you get treated very well,” says Duva. “You’re supported by the government. They support your family. They give you bonuses and pay you well. But if you decide to make the move to become professional, they cut you off.” Zhang, Duva says, wanted more.
Just like how Mike Tyson’s career was full of ups and downs, his personal life is no exception. Tyson was the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world from 1987 to 1990. He won his first 19 professional fights by knockout. In fact, 12 of those knockouts occurred in the first round. At the height of his career, Tyson was convicted of rape and served three years in prison. Tyson was able to continue his fighting career after serving time in prison.
Mike Tyson is one of the most recognizable athletes in history. Not the least role in this is played by the boxer’s appearance, namely his tattoos. Many people associate Tyson primarily with a tattoo on his face, but in addition to it, there are six more images on the body of the athlete. And there were three more, which you may have already forgotten about. All of them were stuffed in different periods of the boxer’s life.
Monica Turner became one of the few who did not turn away from Mike then. After all the years of imprisonment, the girl visited Mike in prison, and after his release, the couple married, but their marriage did not last long – only six years. After the divorce, he disappeared and tattooed a portrait of his wife, over which the boxer put a new drawing.
But he was big. Not just for his family. For his town. Zhang grew up in Shenqiu, a rural county that sits on the line between Henan and Anhui in the eastern part of the country. He wasn’t athletically gifted. Wasn’t so athletically inclined, either. When he was 12, his father, concerned about his highest weight division in boxing, suggested Zhang try sports. Kayaking was popular. Zhang liked it. But the first time he squeezed his 6′ 1″, 190-pound frame into one he felt the water splashing into the sinking vessel as he paddled.
During her detention at Shanghai’s Women Prison, Zhang staged a hunger strike and was hospitalized at one point in 2021. Zhang’s family, who could often only speak to her by phone, faced police pressure during her incarceration, and her parents refused to speak to news outlets.
Indeed, if one of Mike Tyson’s bodyguards is to be believed, the boxer slept with his fair share of women. In 1992, bodyguard Rudy Gonzalez told The New York Post that Tyson had slept with 1,300 women — and kept their names and sexual preferences in a handheld computer.
However, boxers must ensure that any tattoos do not contain offensive symbols or language, as this could potentially lead to disciplinary actions by boxing organisations or commissions overseeing the matches.
In 2000 Tyson dismissed everyone who was working for him and enlisted new accountants, who prepared a statement showing he started the year $3.3 million in debt but earned $65.7 million. In August 2007, Tyson pleaded guilty to drug possession and driving under the influence in an Arizona court, which stemmed from an arrest in December where authorities said Tyson, who has a long history of legal contentions, admitted to using cocaine that day and to being addicted to the drug.
Today, he is a financially healthy family man and husband of fifteen years, a New York Times best-selling author who performed his own autobiography as a one-man Broadway show, the owner of one of the nation’s most successful celebrity cannabis brands, and a podcaster who gets really deep—and really high—with his guests. This late-life renaissance has led Tyson to take on an opponent he knows he can’t knock out but wishes to take the distance: Father Time.
She began the clay-court season at the Charleston Open as the 16th seed losing to Ajla Tomljanović in the second round, but reached the semifinal round at the Malaysian Open as the second seed losing to the seventh seed and eventual winner Donna Vekić. As the seventh seed, she lost to Polona Hercog in the first round at the Morocco Open. At the Portugal Open, she lost to seventh seed Svetlana Kuznetsova in the first round. and reached the quarterfinal round with Sílvia Soler Espinosa losing to the top-seeded team of Cara Black & Sania Mirza the doubles competition. Another first-round loss came at the Madrid Open against wild card Irina-Camelia Begu. Partnering with Janette Husárová in doubles, Zhang lost to the eighth-seeded team of Julia Görges and Anna-Lena Grönefeld in the first round. She defeated Petra Kvitová in the second round of the Italian Open in three sets. She recorded a total of 300 wins and her second top-10 victory. She lost to Serena Williams in the quarterfinals. She entered the doubles with Monica Niculescu, but withdrew with a shoulder injury against Casey Dellacqua & Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, in the second round. Zhang withdrew from the Internationaux de Strasbourg. Her winless streak in the Grand Slam events reached ten as she lost to third seed Agnieszka Radwańska at Roland Garros, in two sets. She entered the doubles with Ajla Tomljanović but lost to Gabriela Dabrowski & Alicja Rosolska in the first round.
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