'Lip Sync Battle': Mike Tyson and Terry Crews Go Head-to-Head
On this week’s Lip Sync Battle, Brooklyn Nine-Nine actor Terry Crews got into the ring to go up against former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. The result was a lot of spandex, and a lot of dancing pecs.
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First up, Tyson took on the Rolling Stones’s “I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction)” — strutting, jumping, caressing his body, and doing some flailing move that, to our knowledge, has no name. The more polished Crews went with the song that made him a man when he was a lonely 12-year-old, Run-DMC’s “Sucker MC’s.” (Hence the crotch-grabbing?) Both men worked up a sweat.
In the second round, which involves the costumes, Crews wore a white tux sans shirt for Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” (which he performed in 2004′s White Chicks). He started off at the piano, then lost the jacket for a ribbon dance. You read that right. Tyson opted for Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It” and basically just thrashed the entire time. While he gets props for his enthusiasm and commitment, there’s no contest.
Lip Sync Battle airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. on Spike. It has been renewed for a second season.
