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Promoter Tyson back from the brink Aug 19th 2013, 19:49, by Michael Woods Mike Tyson's re-branding is the sort of turnaround that just about never happens. Back in 2008 and 2009, he was depressed, he said, to the point of contemplating suicide, and using drugs in a completely reckless manner. "I was overdosing every night, I couldn't believe I was waking up," Tyson said on a Monday conference call to hype his Aug. 23 debut as a boxing promoter. But meeting current wife Kiki, and the tragic death of a four-year-old daughter in a treadmill accident in 2009, forced him to snap out of it.

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