Tyson Chats With Gumbel on “Real Sports”

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL

GOES ONE-ON-ONE WITH FORMER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP MIKE TYSON

WHEN THE EMMY^®-WINNING SHOW RETURNS FEB. 15, EXCLUSIVELY ON HBO

REAL SPORTS WITH BRYANT GUMBEL presents more enterprising features and reporting when its 167th edition, available in HDTV, debuts TUESDAY, FEB. 15 (10:00 p.m. ET/PT & 9:00 p.m. CT), exclusively on HBO.

HBO On Demand availability:  Feb. 21-March 14

*Tyson. He hasn’t fought professionally since 2005, but Mike Tyson, 44, is still big news.  One of the most recognizable sports figures of the last quarter-century, he was labeled the “baddest man on the planet” during his controversial and prolific heavyweight career, forging such a dark persona that Madison Avenue largely shunned him during his 1986-1996 championship run.  But after declaring bankruptcy and leaving the ring, Tyson has reinvented himself, finding a niche as a Hollywood actor and taking life one day at a time.  Now, with his own cable TV series devoted to his love of pigeons, he’s back on the national stage.  REAL SPORTS correspondent Jon Frankel sits down with “Iron Mike.”