Thursday, August 30, 2012

Tyson won't "beg" for visa

http://msn.foxsports.com/boxing/story/Mike-Tyson-wont-beg-for-a-New-Zealand-visa-082912


Former world boxing heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is hoping to get a visa to New Zealand for a motivational speaking tour. He is booked for a trip in November but New Zealand  law states that anyone that has been convicted of any offense that carries a prison sentence of five or more years will not be granted a visa. Since Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992 and served three years of a six year sentence. Tyson said to New Zealand reporters via video link from Las Vegas "I'm not going to sit here cower and beg to come to your country... I can't come, I can't come..."

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