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Jamie Foxx Will Reportedly Play Mike Tyson in Upcoming Biopic
Time ^ | 7/31/14 | Laura Stampler

Posted on 07/31/2014 9:53:06 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

Jamie Foxx has been cast to play Mike Tyson, one of the most polarizing modern sports figures, in an untitled biopic, Variety reports. Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter is set to write the film.....

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To: Vermont Lt

So did I, but then I realized he fought mostly chumps, and eventually got knocked out by an out-of-shape nobody.


21 posted on 07/31/2014 12:53:23 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

There really were not that many good fighters in his class back then.

The action was going on with Hearns, Hagler, and Sugar Ray.


22 posted on 07/31/2014 1:01:17 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: Vermont Lt

I’d like to see how he would handle some of these Poles and Ukranians that are mopping it up these days.


23 posted on 07/31/2014 1:02:45 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

he might need to start working out a little


24 posted on 07/31/2014 1:03:58 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: JacksonCalhoun

Tyson has acted. He played an imprisoned thug on a Law & Order episode if memory serves me.


25 posted on 07/31/2014 1:52:31 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I won’t be seeing this movie. Foxx is detestable.


26 posted on 07/31/2014 1:57:25 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

He is going to be taking some serious steroids to look like him!


27 posted on 07/31/2014 2:11:39 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: Phillyred

I lost interest when many of the TV coverage went MMA—which I find unwatchable. The few guys I’ve seen from the east are monsters.


28 posted on 07/31/2014 4:22:44 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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