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Hollywood director Spike Lee has collaborated with Mike Tyson to debut the former champ’s one-man show ‘Mike Tyson-Undisputed Truth’ on Broadway. The last time Tyson was on stage at a Broadway theater, was four years ago when he nearly wrecked what was left of his boxing career by biting boxer Lennox Lewis on the leg during a press conference at the Hudson Theater. The 45-year-old boxer is returning to a Broadway theater to breathe life into his new career as a theatrical performer. Tyson was on stage at the Longacre Theater in midtown on Monday afternoon to announce his one-man show, which will begin a limited engagement on July 31. The show, entitled ‘Mike Tyson-Undisputed Truth’ will be directed by Lee, who also will be making his Broadway debut. “Mike has lifted himself off the canvas,” the New York Daily News quoted Lee as saying. “It’s a great story and Mike tells it masterfully,” he said. It is a variation of the six soldout shows that Tyson performed at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas in April. Producer James L. Nederlander believes that the Mike and Spike Show will play well on Broadway, otherwise he would not be bankrolling it. “I’m really excited about this genre,’’ Tyson said. “I lived a life where I really thought that I was special and everyone else was not. “That’s not what life is all about. Life is about servitude. I have to be conscious of how I live my life. Anytime I try to live my life for myself I’m self destructive,” he added. Lee and Tyson seemed to have a good rapport. On stage on Monday they were just a couple of guys from Brooklyn - Lee is from Fort Greene and Tyson is from Brownsville – talking about a show. “Denzel’s not playing Mike Tyson. Sam Jackson isn’t playing Mike Tyson,” Lee said. “It’s Mike Tyson. It takes a lot of courage,” he added. KiKi, Tyson’s wife had come up with the idea after seeing actor Chazz Palminteri doing a one-man show called ‘The Bronx Tales’ in Las Vegas . She had scripted the Las Vegas show and, with the help of Adam Steck, produced it. Lee heard about the Las Vegas show from a friend who had called him up after going to see it. Lee got a videotape and called Nederlander, who had been trying to get Lee to direct a Broadway show for years, and told him that he thought it would be a great project for him to make his Broadway debut with. “If someone said to me six months ago that I’d get a call from Spike Lee from Brazil telling me that we had to do a show with Mike Tyson, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Nederlander said. “After he saw it (the videotape) Spike said I think it would be cool. I said let’s do it,” he said.

Mike Tyson’s ‘Undisputed Truth’ set to make Broadway debut