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...Mike Tyson will marry Margo Adams...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: This Bark Has a Great Deal of Bite | 4/27/1989 | See Source »

...management of heavyweight boxer Carl "The Truth" Williams took out a full-page ad Monday in The New York Post challenging Mike Tyson to a championship bout. Let me get this straight, there was "Truth" in The Post...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: A Golfer's Worst Nightmare | 4/13/1989 | See Source »

Athletes, of course, are hardly the only victims of a rapid and rapacious desire to bring icons down to size. Mike Tyson is merely learning lessons about the price of celebrity that Liz Taylor and Mick Jagger were forced to learn many years ago. Yet sportsmen belong to more innocent kids than do movie stars or musicians, and to adults who wish to be more innocent kids again. Tyson, moreover, appears in the ring for only a few minutes every few months, and Cabinet members work mostly behind closed doors; both are ultimately judged by professionals and peers. Boggs' skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Sacrificial Rite of Spring | 3/27/1989 | See Source »

Someone knock out Mike Tyson really soon. Boxing's getting too boring...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Rose Doesn't Smell So Sweet | 3/23/1989 | See Source »

...companies, Viewer's Choice (which reaches 5 million homes) and Request Television (more than 4 million), each offer customers a monthly program slate filled largely with movies. But the business's new boomlet has been propelled mainly by special events. Last June's heavyweight title fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks was sold to nearly 600,000 TV homes on a pay-per-view basis at an average $35 a crack. Wrestling matches have proved an even bigger draw. Wrestlemania IV had a reported 900,000 takers last March (the largest audience yet claimed for a PPV event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Pay-Per-View Starts Perking | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

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