Humiliated Mike Tyson forced to wear pink prison underwear by oddball sheriff

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Humiliated: Mike Tyson was forced to wear pink because it's a 'calming colour'

The prison uniform has become all too familiar to Mike Tyson.

But not, perhaps, the pink handcuffs and socks.

The final humiliation for the one-time "baddest man on the planet" came yesterday courtesy of Joe Arpaio, the self-styled toughest sheriff in America who believes pink has a psychological calming effect.

Mr Arpaio, who has vowed to make an example of law-breakers in Phoenix, Arizona, also obliged the former heavyweight boxing champion to wear pink underwear under his prison stripes.

Unsurprisingly, 41-year-old Tyson - who had been jailed for a day after admitting charges of possessing cocaine and driving under the influence - looked anything but amused when he reported to Tent City, an infamous open-air jail near a dog pound and a rubbish dump.

The sentence, on top of 360 hours of community service, followed the fallen fighter's arrest in his BMW after leaving a nightclub last Christmas.

But it could have been worse.

Had Tyson, who has served prison terms for rape and assault, been jailed for longer he might have had to endure another of Mr Arpaio's pet punishments - the chain gang.

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