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Article: A happy camper; Tyson shows a little giddy-up.(Sports)
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- The Boston Herald
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- December 1, 2002
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Byline: George Kimball
Did anybody else come away with the feeling that Mike Tyson must have stumbled upon a new medication? How else to explain the bubbly and effusive countenance of the former heavyweight champion when he showed up in Mississippi last week to announce his Feb. 22 bout against Clifford Etienne?
"I feel good. I'm just very happy. I'm tired of being stupid," said the convicted rapist, who will be returning to the scene of his humiliating defeat at the hands of Lennox Lewis, which Iron Mike described as a "purifying" experience.
"It's like he whipped my ass and baptized me at the same time," said Tyson of last June's Lewis fight. ...