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Hour Of The Gun: The Wasted Life And Brutal Death Of Tupac Shakur

Stephen Dalton, Uncut, July 1997

EVEN BY THE BRUTAL STANDARDS OF thug life, his was a particularly merciless encounter. It took less than two minutes for Mike Tyson to pummel Bruce Seldon senseless at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas on September 7, 1996. The capacity crowd, hyped up and baying for blood, left feeling cheated. Not enough pain, not enough violence. But the night was still young.

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