Mike Tyson has been staunchly opposed to the series. FOX13
is set to launch "Mike" – an eight-episode limited series exploring the legendary boxer’s life. The show is set to debut Aug. 25.
"Hulu tried to desperately pay my brother @danawhite millions without offering me a dollar to promote their slave master take over story about my life. He turned it down because he honors friendship and treating people with dignity. I'll never forget what he did for me just like I'll never forget what Hulu stole from me," he wrote in the first post.The second post read: "Don’t let Hulu fool you. I don’t support their story about my life. It’s not 1822. It’s 2022.
"Hulu’s announcement to do an unauthorized miniseries of my life, although unfortunate, isn’t surprising," Tyson said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter in February 2021. "This announcement on the heels of social disparities in our country is a prime example of how Hulu’s corporate greed led to this tone-deaf cultural misappropriation of my life story.
Jerry West, the former Los Angeles Lakers superstar and the silhouette on the NBA logo, took issue with how he was portrayed in the HBO Series "Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty."
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