{"id":25502,"date":"2014-09-12T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T03:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=25502"},"modified":"2014-09-12T00:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T16:23:16","slug":"tv-anchors-reference-to-rape-conviction-sparks-profanity-from-mike-tyson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/12\/tv-anchors-reference-to-rape-conviction-sparks-profanity-from-mike-tyson\/","title":{"rendered":"TV anchor\u2019s reference to rape conviction sparks profanity from Mike Tyson"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25503\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25503\" style=\"width: 940px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/940px-Mike_Tyson_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25503\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/940px-Mike_Tyson_2011.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Tyson. Photo by Eduardo Merille \/ Flickr.\" width=\"940\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/940px-Mike_Tyson_2011.jpg 940w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/940px-Mike_Tyson_2011-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/940px-Mike_Tyson_2011-600x574.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25503\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Tyson. Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/31732098@N00\/5560148826\" target=\"_blank\">Eduardo Merille<\/a> \/ Flickr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO\u2014Boxing legend Mike Tyson responded with profanities on live TV Wednesday after the anchor referred to him as a \u201cconvicted rapist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Downer of CP24 was interviewing Tyson a day after the former\u00a0world\u00a0heavyweight champion visited Mayor Rob Ford at city hall and asked whether the meeting would impact Ford\u2019s bid for re-election next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of your critics would say, you know this is a race for mayor, we know you\u2019re a convicted rapist, this could hurt his campaign. How do you respond to that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson reacted by swearing at Downer and continued even after being reminded they were on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet sent after the incident, Downer acknowledged his question had hurt Tyson\u2019s feelings and said that was not his intention.<\/p>\n<p>He also apologized for the language.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson has a long history of run-ins with the law, including serving three years in prison in Indiana for the 1991 rape of a Miss Black America pageant contestant.<\/p>\n<p>He was in Toronto for a Wednesday night performance of his one-man show \u201cMike Tyson: Undisputed Truth,\u201d his first in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO\u2014Boxing legend Mike Tyson responded with profanities on live TV Wednesday after the anchor referred to him as a \u201cconvicted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":25503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}