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Former boxing champion Mike Tyson is arrested after brawling with a photographer

  • 12-11-2009 11:42am
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    The former heavyweight boxing champion was arrested at LAX airport after brawling with a photographer. Both Tyson, 43, and the photographer were arrested after the scuffle which left the latter with a cut to his head.

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    Mike Tyson leaves LAX police station cuffed in the back of a police car after a scuffle with a photographer

    The Los Angeles Times, citing an unnamed source, said Tyson told police the photographer struck him in an attempt to provoke him, while the paparazzo claimed the boxer punched him in the face and tried to take film from his camera. But LA police have yet to clarify the exact details of the incident.

    'There's a lot of different versions to the story,' Los Angeles Airport Police Sergeant Jim Holcomb said. 'That's all going to come out later. But in this particular case, both individuals are going to be pressing charges for battery.'

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    The former heavyweight champion is driven away from LAX police station in the back of a police car after his arrest

    'I've heard people were following him into the men's room and trying to take his picture there,' claimed Tyson's defence attorney, David Chesnoff. 'My advice to him is going to be to vigorously press charges against what everyone agrees are ridiculously aggressive photographers.'

    Tyson has since been released on charges of misdemeanour battery on £12,000 ($20,000) bail, the photographer will be arrested on his release from hospital. The boxer had been making his way back from the UK after his Coming Back To The Fans tour.

    Fans were given the chance to gain first-hand insight into the boxer's world during the tour, which took place in Wolverhampton, Belfast, Essex and Cardiff. Tyson said of the tour: 'I just want to meet and greet as many of the ordinary fans, the fans who rooted for me when I was up and rooted for me when I was down.'


    Provoked as usual I would think.


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