Charlie first met Mike Tyson when he worked along side him on a Television show for sky. He suggested to Mike that a wider audience would be very interested in his life story and suggested he contact Ray Fisher of Ray Fisher Promotions in the view of a tour of the U.K, speaking on the after dinner circuit.
In November of 2005 this came about, and Mike Tyson arrived in the U.K accompanied by his personal manager Tom Patti and also one of his former sparing partners Joe Egan.
The tour was arranged through the friendship of Charlie and Joe Egan and promoted by Ray Fisher.
The tour coincided with the release of Joe Egan’s autobiography, of which Mike Tyson wrote a forward. The book entitled big Joe Egan credits Charlie and boxing promoter Ken Purchase as the two people who inspired him to write his autobiography. It is currently a best seller published by Pennant Publications.
Joe and Cass Pennant asked Charlie to arrange a press conference at Canary Wharf for Joe Egan book signing session. Mike Tyson was the guest of honour and the event was a huge success. It attracted over five thousand boxing fans along with every TV station, and newspaper represented in the U.K.
The venues for the Mike Tyson tour were the London Hilton, the Birmingham Hilton, Manchester united FC, The Pennine Hotel Derby, and the Doncaster Dome. Charlie was the master of ceremonies at each one and Frank Bruno was the main guest speaker at all the venues.The event was the biggest the after dinner circuitry had seen since the PELE three day tour some years ago, Mike Tyson broke all box office records for a UK dinner tour.
So successful was the whole event, that already negotiations are under way for a second tour once again with Charlie at the helm.
For all you boxing fans out there keep an eye open for the Evander Holyfeild tour early 2006, with once again Charlie Hale being your ringside master of ceremonies.
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