But his criticisms are not based on anger, but humor and, as the show’s title indicates, Tyson’s “undisputed truth.” You see flashbacks of the old furious Mike, but it is Mike now poking fun at himself and making fun of others, most notably his street encounters with former heavyweight contender Mitch Green, former wife Robin Givens, and promoter Don King. By the time Lee was ready to film the show for HBO broadcast, Tyson was on fire: on July, and after a successful national tour, Lee filmed an “Iron Mike” as he has never been seen before: funny, confident, articulate, and moving. But Tyson and Lee went on, and Tyson kept getting better and better.

It premiered on Broadway that August and the immediate reaction was mixed: Tyson showed “a clumsiness startling to see on a Broadway stage,” wrote The New York Times about the August 1 premiere at Longacre Theater. Lee took over the show, written by Tyson’s wife Kiki, after an April 2012 opening in Las Vegas. Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, the Spike Lee-directed one-man Broadway show, premiered last night on HBO and and will air again on Nov.

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