On this day 33 years ago, on March 26, 1992 (February 23, 1992 in the lunar calendar), former heavyweight world boxing champion Tyson was sentenced for rape. Tyson is leaving the courtOn March 26, 1992, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was fined $30,000 by an Indianapolis court for committing rape and sentenced to six years in prison. The 25-year-old boxer was found guilty in February of this year of sexually assaulting a Miss Daisy Washington who participated in the Miss Black America pageant in his hotel room in Annapolis, India, in 1991. He denied the charges against him. Tyson became the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in 1986, and the controversial behavior of a multimillionaire like him outside the ring has always attracted the attention of the news media.