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'No regrets' for Tyson.


Summary: Mike Tyson Noun 1. Mike Tyson - United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion (born in 1966)
Michael Gerald Tyson, Tyson
 has said he has "no regrets" about his savage and often controversial career.

Mike Tyson has said he has "no regrets" about his savage and often controversial career.

The former world heavyweight heavyweight - High-overhead; baroque; code-intensive; featureful, but costly. Especially used of communication protocols, language designs, and any sort of implementation in which maximum generality and/or ease of implementation has been pushed at the expense of mundane  champion is due to visit Britain next month to talk to fight fans about his turbulent life.

Tyson, who once infamously in·fa·mous  
adj.
1. Having an exceedingly bad reputation; notorious.

2. Causing or deserving infamy; heinous: an infamous deed.

3. Law
a.
 bit a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear, said: "I don't have any regrets because everything I have done - the good and the bad - catapulted me to become the person I was willing to become and that's one of the greatest fighters that ever lived."

The youngest-ever world heavyweight champion at 20, Tyson served a three-year jail term for rape and filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after earning Au200 million in his turbulent career.

He insists he will not make another comeback but said: "At that stage of my life I was mean. I was happy to be the person who was savage because all my life I used to hear about these fighters who were savages, monsters and animals. It made them almost inhuman in·hu·man  
adj.
1.
a. Lacking kindness, pity, or compassion; cruel. See Synonyms at cruel.

b. Deficient in emotional warmth; cold.

2.
 and I loved the stigma stigma: see pistil.
Stigma
mark of Cain

God’s mark on Cain, a sign of his shame for fratricide. [O. T.: Genesis 4:15]

scarlet letter
 behind those guys.

"That's why they continued to live in my head and that's why I wanted to be like them. They motivated mo·ti·vate  
tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates
To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel.



mo
 me to be the guy that I became at that stage of my life."

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