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Spine-tingling trailer for Mike Tyson biopic this summer shows famous Evander Holyfield ear bite and pet tiger

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MIKE TYSON’S life story will be subject of a Hulu series this summer.

And an epic new trailer has landed showing some of ‘Iron Mike’s’ incredible highs and ultimate lows.

A new limited series about Mike Tyson’s life is released this AugustCredit: Hulu
The Hulu series features the infamous Evander Holyfield ear biteCredit: Hulu

The former world heavyweight champion will be played by Trevante Rhodes – who previously starred in The Predator and Bird Box – in an eight-episode series.

And the trailer showed there’s no subject off limits from Tyson’s storied life.

The 77-second clip is set to the song ‘I’ve Gotta Be Me’ and features moments from the 55-year-old’s journey.

They include when he bit Evander Holyfield’s ear in the ring in 1997 and when he served time in prison for a rape conviction in 1992.

Tyson’s famous pet tiger also features in the short clip ahead of the series’ August 25 launch.

Showrunner Karin Gist told Entertainment Weekly that the show will ‘dig deeper’ into Tyson’s life and ‘not meant to glorify’ it.

Gist said: “We were never trying to say that Mike Tyson is a hero or Mike Tyson is a villain.

“Our goal was to take a very complicated and controversial figure and try to get under the hood of what he was praised and vilified for while staying true to our North Star of no one person is one thing.

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“Putting stories like this in the spotlight and pulling them out of the shadows is crucial to moving forward and getting the conversation to the next level.

“We wanted people to see Mike’s own culpability in his life and society’s culpability as well’ and ‘to let our audience decide what they think and feel.”

But Tyson condemned the series in a statement back in February on Instagram.

He said: “Hulu’s announcement to do an unauthorized mini-series of the Tyson story without compensation, although unfortunate, isn’t surprising.

“This announcement on the heels of social disparities in our country is a prime example of how Hulu’s corporate greed led to this tone-deaf cultural misappropriation of the Tyson life story.”

Mike Tyson’s pet tiger is also referred to in the seriesCredit: Hulu
Trevante Rhodes plays the ex-world heavyweight championCredit: Hulu
Mike Tyson isn’t happy about the seriesCredit: Getty

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