Tyson's ringside seat
Jeff Powell
Last updated at 00:00 12 July 1997
THE rehabilitation of Mike Tyson began yesterday with promoter Don King breaking his uncharacteristic silence about the Bite of the Century.
King spoke as suggestions surfaced that Tyson might be employed as a TV boxing analyst during his one-year exile from the ring.
The Showtime cable network, which has been paying Tyson upwards of $30million to sell his fights on pay-per-view, is said to be ready to sit the disgraced ex-world heavyweight champion at ringside with a microphone.
King, here as co-promoter of Henry Akinwande's WBC title challenge to fellow Englishman Lennox Lewis, said of the biting incident: `I'm not going to second-guess the decision. It was an aberration. It never happened before and I'm certain it will never happen again.'
Showtime executive Jay Larkin described reports of Tyson's recruitment as a commentator as `premature'.
