Tyson’s face tattoo quickly proved iconic and has become strongly associated with him. Its Māori influence has been controversial, spurring claims of cultural appropriation. In 2011, Whitmill filed a copyright suit against Warner Bros. for using the design on the character Stu Price in The Hangover Part II. Warner Bros. responded with a number of defenses, including that tattoos are not copyrightable; supporting them, scholar David Nimmer argued that it violated the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution—which prohibits slavery—to give Whitmill copyright over part of Tyson’s body. After initial comments by Judge Catherine D. Perry denying an injunction but affirming that tattoos are copyrightable, Whitmill and Warner Bros. settled for undisclosed terms, without disruption to the release of the film.
Tras la alianza de las provincias del Yangzi bajo control de la camarilla de Zhili, Zhang, sintiéndose amenazado, decidió tomar el control de la capital y del gobierno nacional de Pekín en diciembre de 1921. En noviembre el Gobierno había sufrido una grave crisis financiera que Zhang resolvió aportando los fondos necesarios. A continuación colocó a Liang Shiyi, caudillo de la camarilla de las comunicaciones, al frente de un nuevo gabinete el 24 de diciembre de 1921. Cao Kun, cabeza teórica de Zhili, pero celoso del aumento del poder de su subordinado Wu Peifu, trató de conciliar a este con Zhang y evitar el enfrentamiento militar entre ambos, sin éxito. Respaldó también el cambio de gabinete organizado por Zhang que le otorgó a este el control financiero gubernamental. La maniobra de Zhang para hacerse con el Gobierno y frenar así el debilitamiento de su posición en la capital precipitó, sin embargo, el conflicto con Wu. En la primavera de 1922, este comenzó a movilizar sus fuerzas y a recabar la ayuda de importantes gobernadores militares.
Tyson has also said that the tattoo was meant to honor the Maori of New Zealand, although Maori representatives have not responded kindly to such use of an ancestral moko, especially since it was used in The Hangover, and doubly so because Perez says that it’s his original design. “The tattooist has an incredible arrogance to assume he has the intellectual right to claim the design form of an indigenous culture that is not his,” Professor Ngahuia Te Awekotuku said in the New Zealand Herald.
Unseen in the show is a 1982 incident in which Atlas put a gun to Tyson’s head after the teenage boxer did something untoward to Atlas’ 12-year-old sister-in-law, as David Remnick later reported for the New Yorker. The details remain murky on what exactly happened with the young girl, but Tyson admitted to inappropriate behavior.
The fight itself was shockingly brief. Rather than attempting to box and testing Tyson’s by now suspect stamina, Etienne came in to try and blast boxing’s most famous heavyweight out – with predictable results. As the two swung wildly at one another, Etienne was caught clean with a couple of blows before the pair clinched and wrestled one another to the canvas.
Before 2014, Zhang was a typical product of the Chinese state-centric sports development policy known as juguo tizhi (举国体制), with all his training schedule, coaching, insurance, housing, and meals arranged and paid for by the Henan Provincial Combat and Weightlifting Center. Hence, few Chinese boxers turn pro. The Henan Provincial Department of Sports secured public institution positions for athletes like Zhang should they retire in China.
Whitmill claims that Warner Bros. should have asked his permission to use his tattoo design on Helms’ face and asked a judge to issue a preliminary injunction, which would have prevented the comedy sequel from entering theaters. Warner Bros. executives, however, argued they didn’t need to get the plaintiff’s permission to depict the tattoo on Helms’ face because it falls under “fair use” as a parody because the tattoo, which Tyson famously got in 2003, is well-recognized in pop culture.
Zhilei Zhang (Chinese: 张志磊; pinyin: Zhāng Zhìlěi; born May 2, 1983) is a Chinese professional boxer. He held the World Boxing Organization (WBO) interim heavyweight title between 2023 and March 2024. As of June 2024, Zhang is ranked as the world’s fifth-best active heavyweight by The Ring magazine.
Back when Mike Tyson first showed up in public in 2003 with his now-instantly recognizable tribal face tattoo, site here the first reaction of many folks was, “huh?” followed by, “why?” followed by, “seriously though, why?” But let’s be honest: was anyone going to make fun of him to his face and risk getting detonated by one of Iron Mike’s fists? No, sir. Not only was Tyson still the #1 dude who you did not want to get into a brawl with (and also the man with the most disproportionate “intimidating presence: intimidating voice” ratio), he had bitten off a bit of Evander Holyfield’s ear during a boxing match back in 1997. Tyson was considered volatile, as well as loose, cannon.
