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Originally Posted by rubecube
The guy is a journalist(?) and it was a relevant question. I really don't see what was wrong with it. Risky, I'll grant you, considering Tyson's history.
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It's not relevant at all. Let me know when you see Sportsnet interviewing Craig MacTavish and they ask him how being convicted and imprisoned for manslaughter in 1985 affected his latest decision as GM of the Edmonton Oilers.
It was a POS question and he deserved the backlash. It has nothing to do with Rob Ford. Perhaps if the question had something to do with substance abuse, you could twist it into a question of some validity but not this. This was a loaded question with a false premise and was simply goading and dredging up skeletons from the past regarding a situation which Tyson and many others still deny occurred.
My personal opinion is that Tyson didn't do it, many people took advantage of him to get at his money. He was never extremely intelligent and he was always vulnerable to the people around him using them for their own purposes. It's unfortunate that his trainer, Cus D'Amato (who adopted him) died when Tyson was 19 or 20 years old because he lost his role model and father figure and was subjected to the influences of greedy and power hungry people that surrounded him in the following years.
Good on him for standing up for himself on live television.