New York - As A child, he was a heartless, gun-toting burglar, the son of a pimp who fathered 17 children but never raised any of them. As a boxing superstar who bit a chunk out of an opponent’s ear, he indulged in drug-fuelled orgies and became hopelessly addicted to cocaine and alcohol. Mike Tyson, the former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and a convicted rapist, became a byword for ferociousness and monstrous behaviour — in and out of the ring. Now the “baddest man on the planet” wants the world to forgive him, even as he cashes in on his dissolute, squalid life with what must be the most cynical autobiography for years. Just a few months after he...
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