Jamie Foxx is set to play Mike Tyson in an upcoming film based on the life of the infamous fighter.

Tyson has planned the movie for some time and has already signed Foxx up for the role.

Tyson says, “Jamie Foxx and I will be working together. He will play me in the film about my life. We already talked about it several times.”

Tyson claims he is finally clean and sober after a lifetime of drug and alcohol abuse.

He says, “Even when I was training for a fight, there were no drugs, but I would drink. I had never been clean and sober my whole life. This is the first time. I’m tired of losing. I lost the trust of my family, my five kids. I didn’t like that way of life and decided to change. I saw the devil and didn’t want that.”

After reigning as the undisputed heavyweight champion from 1987 until 1990 Tyson’s life went into freefall when he was sent to jail for rape in 1992.After his 1995 release he continued to make headlines and caused outrage when he bit a chunk of rival Evander Holyfield’s ear off during a fight in 1997. Tyson – who is currently fighting bankruptcy – admits he struggled to cope even during the peak of his succes.

So it seems that there will be plenty of interesting things to see in the movie. Not intellectual stuff. You know the other ones: booze, fights, women…