Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 at 04:52:40 PM EST in Other Sports
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[Sportscolumn is running down the ten dumbest in-game injuries in sports. Here's #9.]

This one is more bizarre than dumb and it might have injured Mike Tyson's career more than Holyfield but it certainly belongs on this list. Mike Tyson took insanity to a whole other level during a fight with Evander Holyfield on June 28, 1997. In front of a sold out crowd at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Iron Mike took a page from the Iron Chef and gruesomely bit the ear of Holyfield. After some commotion, the fight was resumed and in Tyson-esque lunacy he again bites and removes a chunk from the left ear of Holyfield. Bedlam takes over the ring and the chaos quickly spreads into the crowd before moving to the hotel lobby and eventually to the streets outside. Tyson was suspended from boxing and his purse was withheld. Tyson's life has continued to spiral downward to the point where he is now considering a new career in porn. Ear nibbling is off limits though.

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