Letter: Why the surprise over Tyson antics?

Sunday, Oct. 31, 1999 | 10:19 a.m.

Mike Tyson's right to step into the ring stems from the big money his name generates, not from any remorse for any past wrongdoing. Where does the money that Tyson's name generates come from? It comes from the very people who pay up to triple-digit figures to see this man fight and bite off another ear. People of this sadistic nature are no different than the Romans who flocked into the Coliseum to see the Christians fed to the lions.

This same repulsive "will of the people" is what prevailed over constitutional law and kept a man of contemptible nature in the White House. If fight fans are angry, they have only themselves to be angry at.

MARK WILSON

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