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After the fight resumed, Tyson missed with a left hook but then connected with a thunderous right hand to the jaw that caused Etienne to collapse, his back leg buckling in spectacular fashion. There was no way he was getting back up. Etienne had landed only one left hook, failing to even test the tattoo on the left side of Tyson’s face.

One fateful day in the winter of 2003, Mike Tyson decided to get an enormous tribal tattoo right on his face. You might think that’s the sort of thing he’d look back on now at the age of 50 and regret, but no.

From 1992 to 1995, while in prison for the rape of Desiree Washington, Tyson read a large number of books, including works by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. Spike Lee sent Tyson a copy of tennis player Arthur Ashe’s deathbed memoir, Days of Grace. Tyson was moved by the book and respected Ashe’s ability to be nonconfrontational and admired his political views and his success as a black athlete in a white-dominated world. Tyson got prison tattoos of both men on his biceps: A portrait of Mao, captioned with “Mao” in all-caps, on the left; a portrait of Ashe beneath the words “Days of Grace” on the right. Gerald Early views the Mao and Ashe tattoos as together “symboliz both newfound self-control and his revision of black cool”, with Mao representing strength and authority. Clifton Brown in The New York Times describes the Ashe tattoo as “a contradiction” with Tyson’s “fits of rage”. Early and biographer Richard Hoffer cast the two bicep tattoos as an unusual combination of, in Hoffer’s words, “alternate icons”.

When Tyson got the face tattoo, he agreed in writing that all drawings, artwork, and photographs of it belonged to Whitmill’s Paradox-Studio of Dermagraphics, an uncommon step in the tattoo industry. In The Hangover’s 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II, the character Stu Price (played by Ed Helms) gets a face tattoo almost identical to Tyson’s. After seeing a poster depicting the tattooed Stu, box Whitmill registered a copyright for the tattoo and then on April 28, 2011 filed Whitmill v. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., seeking to enjoin The Hangover’s distributor, Warner Bros., from using the tattoo in the movie or its promotional materials. Describing the face tattoo as “one of the most distinctive tattoos in the nation”, Whitmill did not challenge “Tyson’s right to use or control his identity” but challenged Warner Bros.’ use of the design itself, without having asked his permission or given him credit.

He added, “So he (friend) said let’s think about putting a tribal mark or something in there. And I said, okay we will do that. So he caked me a couple of days later. He brought up this tribal mark. So I said let’s do it and we did it.”

Yet the case continued, and Warners attorneys must have been concerned that Perry suggested she saw merit in the case, even referring to the studio’s defenses as “silly.” In subsequent court filings, Warners said that it planned to digitally alter the tattoo for the home video version of the film if the case didn’t settle quickly.

“I’m contracted to fight Zhang again. I’ll beat him again, and I’m free to fight whoever,” said Parker to Boxing King Media. “It’s a tough ask, but I’ll do it again and then move on. I don’t make the rankings, and whoever puts us wherever. I just want to do my job, and wherever they rank me, so be it.

“I thought it was so hot,” he explained, adding: “I would be in these dens, these clubs and strip places sometimes and all the girls said ‘oh you are very exotic’…. They said I looked like some tribesman or s**t.”

Estaba previsto que Zhang peleara contra Filip Hrgović en una eliminatoria por el título de la FIB el 7 de mayo de 2022. Sin embargo, Hrgović se retiró de la pelea el 2 de mayo, afirmando que no había podido concentrarse durante su campo de entrenamiento debido a la muerte de su padre. Scott Alexander fue elegido como pelea de reemplazo en la cartelera principal de Canelo Álvarez vs. Dmitry Bivol, y la pelea pasó de ser la coestelar a la cartelera secundaria. Zhang ganó la pelea por nocaut en el primer asalto. Su pelea contra Hrgović fue reprogramada para el 20 de agosto de 2022, en Jeddah, Arabia Saudita, en la cartelera de Oleksandr Usyk vs. Anthony Joshua II. Esa noche, Zhang derribó a Hrgović en el primer asalto con un derechazo. Después de una reñida batalla de doce asaltos, los jueces otorgaron la pelea a Hrgović con puntuaciones de 115-112 dos veces y 114-113, en lo que la emisora Sky Sports describió como una decisión “generosa” después de una actuación “extraña” de Hrgović.

But it wasn’t until years later that Tyson discussed the tattoo while chatting with sportscaster Jim Grey on his podcast that Tyson revealed his reasons behind getting the tattoo. When asked by Grey why he got the tribal tattoo Tyson replied, “I don’t know. I was supposed to do it earlier. Put this tattoo, I wanted a tattoo on my face. I was gonna put a bunch of hearts on my face, there’s a bunch of little hearts and my friends are like, no I am not gonna do anything whack like that.”