Comments Thread For: Photos: Mike Tyson Comes Face To Face Balrog of SF

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In these handout photos provided by Warner Bros., former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson appears to be having a ball at the recent Comic-Con. Tyson was there to promote his 'Mike Tyson Mysteries' cartoon series. During the convention, Tyson came face to face with Balrog, a well known character from the extremely popular Street Fighter videogame series. It was always said that Balrog's character was patterned after a young, up and coming Tyson.

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[Daylyt]

Nice to see Tyson in a better place, seem happy where he is at in his life now.

[Shogunofharlem1]

Awesome. Especially considering balrogs original name was Mike Bison

[richardt]

That Balrog weirdo looks like the lovechild of Blade and Danny Glover.

[Hyper Knuckles]

Tyson deserves to be boxing's #1 ambassador. He's a media darling, warms my heart to see him smiling more these days.

[RA-Box]

Awesome. Especially considering balrogs original name was Mike Bison

Seems legit.

[mathed]

Tyson runs this sport....believe that

[ShoulderRoll]

Awesome. Especially considering balrogs original name was Mike Bison

That's true. The boxer in Street Fighter 2 was named M. Bison in Japan which stood for Mike Bison.

The final boss was named Vega.

But out of fear of being sued in the United States they changed the names around in the American version of the game.

[AntonTheMeh]

ha. this was cool. brought back some memories.

[Art-illery]

my fight moneyyyyyyyy!!!