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{{quote|''Some celebrities allow their reputation to become so bizarre that any story about them is believable. These celebrities have entered '''The Tyson Zone'''.''}}
The term was created by commentator [[The Sports Guy|Bill Simmons]] in honor of heavyweight boxer [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Mike Tyson]]. Examples of Tysonic behavior include offering a zoo handler money to box a gorilla, threatening to eat an opponent's children, biting said opponent in the ring, saying you're ready to "fight [[Jesus]]", or blowing $300 million on [[Hookers and Blow|hookers, cocaine]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|and an enormous collection of]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|pigeons]].<ref>The man loves the birds. Even before boxing.</ref> And yes, Tyson did ''all'' of these things ''and more''.
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* [[Poe's Law]]: Same principle. A celebrity who enters the Tyson Zone for religious fundamentalism would be a straight example of both tropes.
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: Not all who enter the Tyson Zone are crazy in their own right. Sometimes, the strange things just follow them.
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== Bill Simmons' List ==
The inaugural class named by Bill Simmons consisted of the following celebrities:
* Dennis Rodman
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* [[Muammar Gaddafi]], a ''[[Libya|country's]] [[The Dog Bites Back|former]] ruler''.
** See also: [[Zimbabwe|Robert Mugabe]], [[Uganda|Idi Amin]] and [[Turkmenistan|Saparmurat Niyazov]].
* The late Seattle
* [[Older Than Radio]] example: [[Marie Antoinette]]. She was viewed as a symbol of the decadent monarchy and nobility that was running France into the ground, with the final straw being the [[wikipedia:Affair of the Diamond Necklace|Affair of the Diamond Necklace]], in which a prominent courtier was tricked by a con artist into buying the priceless trinket under the impression he was doing her a discreet favour. There was no proof of her involvement, and most historians feel that she had nothing to do with it, but her reputation was so bad that nobody doubted it. She and the monarchy lost what little credibility they still had with the French people, and [[The French Revolution]] broke out a few years later.
* [[Stage Mom
* The entire state of [[Florida]], so much that we even have [[Only in Florida|a trope]] about it.
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