In 1992, 25-year-old Tyson was convicted of raping an 18-year-old Desiree Washington and was sentenced to six years in prison. At the time, Washington was a college student and the reigning Miss Black Rhode Island. She met Tyson at the Miss Black American pageant in Indianapolis in 1991.

It has been 19 years and five months since Mike Tyson last stepped into the ring for a sanctioned fight. It was a different time in many ways: Barack Obama was a newly elected senator, the United Kingdom was in the European Union,