# Mike Tyson is all grown up (and out) now!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 15, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295 "2008-12-15T21:05:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/1 "2008-12-15T21:05:21Z")
[Big Mike!](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/15/article-1094986-02CE6697000005DC-271_468x718.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/2 "2008-12-15T21:06:46Z")
Whoa! He’s a fattie!
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/3 "2008-12-15T21:09:38Z")
Is he living in a van down by the river?
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### Author:  [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/4 "2008-12-15T21:11:01Z")
Damn. I didn’t know ears were so fattening.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/5 "2008-12-15T21:21:40Z")
He looks like an accountant… that wants to sacrifice your firstborn to Molech.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/6 "2008-12-15T21:23:54Z")
And his cat’s died.
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### Author:  [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/7 "2008-12-15T21:37:42Z")
> [@Lobsang](#):
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> Whoa! He’s a fattie!
I dare you to call him that to his face.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/8 "2008-12-15T21:39:33Z")
> [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](#):
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> I dare you to call him that to his face.
Fatty! Fatty! Fat! Fat!
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### Author:  [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/9 "2008-12-15T21:45:33Z")
Somewhere I read an article that said that it’s hard for former athletes to keep the weight off, because they are no longer as active. (On the other hand, the article said, those of us who were less athletic when we were younger tend to find it easier to keep fit.)
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### Author:  [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/10 "2008-12-15T22:09:11Z")
[It seems to run in the family.](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE1D81539F931A15751C0A966958260)
Regards,
Shodan
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### Author:  [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/11 "2008-12-15T22:12:17Z")
> [@Mindfield](#):
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> Damn. I didn’t know ears were so fattening.
Yeah, I thought they had about the same amount of calories as cauliflower.
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### Author:  [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/12 "2008-12-15T22:20:05Z")
> [@astro](#):
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> Mike Tyson is all grown up (and out) now!
Oh! I though maybe he had come “out”.
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### Author:  [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)
#### Post date: [December 15, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/13 "2008-12-15T22:39:13Z")
Is it just me, or does he look exactly like George Foreman now?
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/14 "2008-12-16T01:03:19Z")
> [@Daerlyn](#):
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> Is it just me, or does he look exactly like George Foreman now?
Somehow, the Mike Tyson Grill[sup]®[/sup] with Ear Tenderizing Technology[sup]TM[/sup] doesn’t sound like a “must have” Christmas present this or _any_ year, though.
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### Author:  [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/15 "2008-12-16T13:42:15Z")
He’s obviously not a Doper. If he was he’d know that those pleated pants just don’t do a thing for him.
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### Author:  [@thirdname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdname)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/16 "2008-12-16T13:44:49Z")
> [@Mindfield](#):
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> Damn. I didn’t know ears were so fattening.
Don’t forget, he eats children as well, and the current obesity epidemic means those children are full of more saturated fat than ever.
That photo doesn’t look quite right to me, though. His face and neck don’t look fat enough. I would expect a person that wide to have a prominent double chin.
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/17 "2008-12-16T14:00:06Z")
[Nope, it’s real all right.](http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://bp1.blogger.com/_n-njTteDnPw/SBLSk1_yMPI/AAAAAAAACYU/flSC0weCkS0/s400/Iron_Mike_Tyson.jpg&imgrefurl=http://2164th.blogspot.com/2008/04/iron-mike-tyson-he-almost-made-it.html&usg=__z7bi3sj8CzMVPwbT_opmki7q0Nk=&h=400&w=300&sz=27&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=DbnnJAskxA0ktM:&tbnh=124&tbnw=93&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmike%2Btyson%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26sa%3DN)
I know we all succumb to gravity and time eventually, but still? That was THE Baddest Man On The Planet at one point in history. Ageing can be ever so humbling. ☹
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### Author:  [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/18 "2008-12-16T14:02:13Z")
I think it’s the horizontal stripes behind him that are just making him \*look \*fat.
No, on second thought, he’s a fattie!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/19 "2008-12-16T14:21:01Z")
[John Amos]
[Bookman!](http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/715/3goodtimesbookman.jpg)
[/John Amos]
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### Author:  [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)
#### Post date: [December 16, 2008, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-tyson-is-all-grown-up-and-out-now/477295/20 "2008-12-16T14:25:09Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#):
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> Somehow, the Mike Tyson Grill[sup]®[/sup] with Ear Tenderizing Technology[sup]TM[/sup] doesn’t sound like a “must have” Christmas present this or _any_ year, though.
Damn…I was gonna say that. 😉
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