New York, June 22: Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was arrested after an early morning brawl with two men At a Brooklyn hotel yesterday and charged with assault and disorderly conduct, police said. Tyson, the self-described ''worst'' man on the planet, suffered cuts to the hands and was treated at the scene, police said.
The boxer became enmeshed in a dispute with two men and a woman at a Marriott hotel where he was a guest.
A fight erupted and the two men, whom police would not identify, picked up an object in the hotel's lobby and ''menaced'' Tyson with it, a police spokeswoman said.
The two men were charged with menacing and disorderly conduct.
One of the men and the woman were taken to Bellevue hospital for unknown injuries, police said.
Tyson once bit off part of his opponent's ear in a boxing match. He was also convicted and imprisoned for three years for raping a woman in 1991. Bureau Report