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It was Tuesday and Mike Tyson was comparing himself to Machiavelli.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter you kill the king,\u201d he said, \u201cyou cut off his head and you be audacious. You say what you\u2019re going to do to the next king. Speak foully.\u201d<\/p>\n

What great writer bears the most resemblance to Mike Tyson? At a talk at the New York Public Library, host Paul Holdengr\u00e4ber compared Tyson to Montaigne, Rousseau, and Orwell, all in the same breath. \u201cWell, uh, that\u2019s pretty profound,\u201d said Tyson, who was there to promote his new memoir, Undisputed Truth<\/em>. He might have had a different thinker in mind. \u201cI think about Nietzsche a lot,\u201d he writes in the book. Tyson the superman, a former petty criminal from Brownsville, Brooklyn, and the son of, as he put it, two people who \u201cworked in the sex industry,\u201d is by now a thoroughly American symbol. He found riches on the basis of physical strength and sheer willpower, then lost everything by the force of his scarred psyche. He\u2019s currently aiming at the redemptive stage of his career. It isn\u2019t the first time. He is tragic in a Greek kind of way. \u201cI love war,\u201d he told Holdengr\u00e4ber enthusiastically. \u201cI love the players in war. I love the philosophy of war.\u201d And he has the facial tattoos to prove it.<\/p>\n

At the library, he walked the audience through the lineage of Frankish kings. He identifies with them because \u201cthey came from obscurity\u201d and \u201cI was born in obscurity and I never wanted to go back again.\u201d Tyson is also an admirer of Pepin the Short, the first of the Carolingian rulers, a ruthless suppressor of revolts and the father of Charlemagne. At one point, he likened himself to Ben-Hur.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember Ben-Hur?\u201d Tyson said. \u201cHe became a wealthy man. He became a great conqueror for slaves. He became the best celebrity. And, wherever it was, he rescued the general of that ship, and after all that he couldn\u2019t save his family. They put them with the lepers. His sister and his mother. Then he got his family from the lepers. He was a success.\u201d There was a pause. \u201cLook at success with me, myself.\u201d <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look back to June 28, 1997. The rematch between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield was billed as \u201cThe Sound and the Fury.\u201d This was the fight that now overshadows the rest of both men\u2019s careers and ended with a blood- and sweat-soaked piece of Holyfield\u2019s ear on the floor of the ring. Tyson had said he could defeat any of the six billion people on the planet in a fair fight (the world was smaller then), though his second fight with Holyfield resulted in the temporary suspension of his boxing license. His portentousness rivaled Faulkner\u2019s at his most bourbon-soaked. He was two days shy of his thirty-first birthday, and about two years out of prison after serving a commuted sentence of four years for raping Desiree Washington, Miss Black Rhode Island 1991, in a hotel room in Indianapolis in the early morning of July 19 of that year (a conviction that, to this day, he protests). He wasn\u2019t in need of a comeback—he accomplished that right after his release, defending his titles and earning eighty million dollars in the process. But as Faulkner wrote in that other Sound and the Fury<\/i>: \u201cNo battle is ever won.\u201d Or, as Tyson writes in Undisputed Truth<\/i>, \u201cI wanted to destroy everything and everybody in his corner.\u201d The corner could be anybody\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Once Tyson appeared, barely contained inside a maroon turtleneck, Paul Holdengr\u00e4ber, the library\u2019s director of events, a spry, bookish man, began a philosophical discussion of the fighter\u2019s permanently inked countenance. Tyson said the marking framing his left eye has origins in tribal paintings in New Zealand folklore. Also in Las Vegas, where he had it stamped on his face, but that went unmentioned. My takeaway from this was Tyson saying, \u201cI was high. I was smoking weed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Substance abuse\u2014especially cocaine\u2014plays a major supporting role in Undisputed Truth<\/em>, as does rehabilitation, though Tyson\u2019s sobriety\u2014or lack of it\u2014is hard to pin down. He checked into rehab last summer, and he\u2019s been inconsistent about whether he is or isn\u2019t clean. In the book, he isn\u2019t so demure about his drug use, though. In 2003, he carried half a brick of coke on a private plane to meet Don King to renegotiate his contract, and ended up attacking his manager and several others on the side of a highway in Florida. He got high on the plane to Cannes for the premiere of his career-salvaging role in The Hangover<\/i>. When his current wife, pregnant with their future daughter, went in for a check-up in 2009, she tested positive for cocaine simply from kissing Tyson on the mouth. \u201cI was a licker when it came to my blow,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n

Nietzsche aside, maybe the writer with the most in common with Tyson is Norman Mailer, who traded writing lessons for boxing lessons with Jos\u00e9 Torres and thought of the two forms as one and the same. He wasn\u2019t the first novelist to romanticize boxing, but those are dying breed. The sport\u2019s mystique with the literary world eventually soured in part because Tyson took the poetry out of it. Let me quote the sales clerk at the Strand Bookstore on Broadway where I bought my copy of Undisputed Truth<\/i>: \u201cNever could much get into him. The fights were over too quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was certainly nothing poetic about Tyson v. Holyfield II, the elephant in every room Tyson walks into. I was waiting for Holyfield to appear when Holdengr\u00e4ber started playing clips from iconic fights on a screen onstage and asked Tyson for live commentary. (Sonny Liston \u201cis a bad guy, the kind of guy you read about in fables\u201d; Muhammad Ali \u201cwas a ferocious saber tooth tiger with a pretty face.\u201d) Tyson was reluctant to watch himself, but when he showed up in a clip fighting Reggie Gross at Madison Square Garden, he narrated the young Mike Tyson\u2019s actions with a distant kind of omniscience: \u201cI want to hurt him desperately. I want to dismantle him. When I\u2019m done fighting him, they\u2019re going to fear me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, a collective whisper swept through the crowd. There was Holyfield, on screen, his oddly friendly face betraying his brutal head butting. Even Tyson himself grew anxious. Was this the Tyson and Holyfield cannibalistic rematch? Was the New York Public Library going for a K.O. against The Baddest Man on the Planet?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat year is this?\u201d Tyson said. He was calm but menacing.<\/p>\n

\u201cNovember 1996,\u201d Holdengr\u00e4ber said, squirming. \u201cIt\u2019s round ten.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIs this the first fight or the second fight?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlright,\u201d Tyson said, and the audience let loose a collective sigh. It was the non-flesh-eating fight. The video played and there was silence for what felt like several minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSay something,\u201d Holdengraber said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis guy beat the shit out of me,\u201d he said and the audience burst into rapturous laughter and applause. Everyone loves a comeback.<\/p>\n

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