Mike Tyson is still very mad about Hulu’s Mike
Tyson refers to Hulu as “the streaming version of the slave master”

There have been unauthorized movies and TV shows about real people for as long as there have been real people (or at least for as long as there have been movies and TV), and it’s rare that the subjects are ever happy about seeing their life get dramatized by someone who isn’t them. Mike Tyson is even less happy than most people, though, calling Hulu’s upcoming limited series Mike (originally Iron Mike) “inappropriate and tone deaf” in a statement early last year. He called it “cultural misappropriation” and said that unauthorized account of a Black man’s life coming “on the heels of social disparities in our country” was a “prime example” of Hulu’s “corporate greed.”
Shortly after that, he announced that he was producing a separate limited series about his life with Antoine Fuqua directing and Jamie Foxx starring (which, as far as we can tell, is happening because he’s mad about the Hulu show and not the other way around). Now Hulu’s Mike, which comes from I, Tonya’s Steven Rogers and showrunner Karin Gist, is set to premiere on the streaming service at the end of the month (with Trevante Rhodes in the title role), and Tyson has returned (via The Hollywood Reporter) to reiterate just how pissed he is about the whole thing—going so far as to refer to Hulu as “the streaming version of the slave master.”