{"id":1423382,"date":"2022-04-07T09:01:22","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423382"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:02:05","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:02:05","slug":"mike-tyson-says-the-hangover-was-start-of-his-pop-culture-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-tyson-says-the-hangover-was-start-of-his-pop-culture-renaissance\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Says \u201cThe Hangover\u201d Was Start of His Pop Culture Renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmike-tyson-says-the-hangover-was-start-of-his-pop-culture-renaissance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1423382&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>When Mike Tyson signed on to appear in \u201cThe Hangover,\u201d the former boxer didn\u2019t realize how his role <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D9NtxDYU8G4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the 2009 comedy<\/a> would reignite his career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just looked at it as a regular job,\u201d Tyson recently told The Post of his appearance in Todd Phillips\u2019 flick, which also featured Bradley Cooper and Zach Galifianakis.<\/p>\n<p>That impression rapidly changed, however, when Tyson was flocked by admirers on a Hollywood tour bus \u2014 a phenomenon that had once been common for the 55-year-old but had been toned following his storied boxing career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey must have seen me in \u2018The Hangover\u2019 or a preview for it. They were going crazy,\u201d Tyson recollected. \u201cI said, \u2018Boom we got something here. They ain\u2019t act like this since I was champion. We got something here.\u2019 It\u2019s been downhill [momentum] ever since.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-95838114.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Heather Graham, Mike Tyson, and Bradley Cooper celebrated \u201cThe Hangover\u2019s\u201d Golden Globes win in January 2010<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though Tyson has made cameo appearances elsewhere over the years, including 2011\u2019s \u201cThe Hangover Part II,\u201d these days, he\u2019s focusing on his legal cannabis brand, Tyson 2.0, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/01\/inside-the-cannabis-partnership-between-mike-tyson-and-ric-flair\/\">his budding partnership with Ric Flair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And while his boxing days are long behind him, Tyson has proposed an intriguing solution on what he would do to restore the sport to the popularity it once was when he was at his height: a tournament to crown the undisputed best fighter in each weight class.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery weight class has a tournament,\u201d he said. \u201cThey have so many titles because when it\u2019s a title fight you get more money. That\u2019s good. But they should unify every weight class, and separate them up and start all over again [in a tournament for each class\u2019 champ].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As boxing is currently structured, with several different promoter fiefdoms, the best matchups do not always happen in the sport. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg\" alt=\"Mike Tyson recognizes that &#039;The Hangover&#039; led to his career renaissance.\" class=\"wp-image-21802126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-114439958.jpeg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mike Tyson with Bradley Cooper at the 2011 premiere of \u201cThe Hangover Part II\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Alberto E. Rodriguez \/ Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf the fighters want the best fights, I don\u2019t see why they\u2019re procrastinating,\u201d Tyson said. \u201cIf they think they\u2019re the best, [prove it]. In the \u201980s, it was different. We were hungrier. We wanted to be number one \u2014 and no one else on our mountain. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was still a young fighter, I\u2019d say, \u2018You\u2019re letting these guys eat around you, letting these guys live around you?\u2019 They\u2019re supposed to be your food! And you\u2019re letting them eat, letting them get stronger. It\u2019s just crazy. That\u2019s my mentality. I want your total surrender or your total destruction, either one.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Mike Tyson signed on to appear in \u201cThe Hangover,\u201d the former boxer didn\u2019t realize how his role in the 2009 comedy would reignite his career. \u201cI just<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1423382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}