Mike Tyson's one-man stage show "Undisputed Truth" opened at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas over the weekend and runs through Wednesday. The ex-champ then hopes to play Broadway and London. Here are excerpts of how the press weighed in on his performance:

Las Vegas Sun:
It is impossible to resist the temptation to liken the experience to a fight, and there were very few power punches landed as Tyson squared off with his past.

Tyson did all he could, too, to knock us dizzy. He continually set the audience up for the knockout by swearing and attempting to shock with repeated use of the "N" word. Instead, he won the night with a frequently methodical decision. It was jab, jab, jab, for about 2 hours.

Tyson was alternately playful and somber in reciting his remarks from the text written by his wife, Kiki, and screenwriter Randy Johnson. That approach kept Tyson on task and allowed him to convey his thoughts in an organized, chronological manner. But disappointingly, there was not sufficient video or photo footage of Tyson's life and career to sustain the narrative. One telling example was when Tyson enthusiastically recalled the roiling series of knockouts he recorded early in his career. As he talked of "knocking those (expletives) OUT," he sang Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" while his five-piece backing band (which stayed onstage throughout the show) cranked out the song."

Las Vegas Review-Journal:

The bigger problem is tone. Tyson gets a good run of emotion going, only to have the spell broken by a song, or worse: Him joining in on it.

But that's part of the undisputed truth too: He wants to be funny now, almost as much as he wants us to like him. "I'm doing this show so you guys better understand me," he says at the beginning.

The view of one of Andrew Belleson's favorite places on earth hasn't changed much since the first time he laid eyes on it as a boy.

And yet, when viewed from a new perspective -- the one he will have again this week as another baseball season dawns -- everything is somehow completely different.

The landmarks are all there just as they had been years before when the young boy walked, for the first time, into what is now the grown man's office.

The grass is just as green. The aging hand-operated scoreboard, the flags flapping from poles in the wind and the barren brick outfield are all just as Belleson remembers them to be.

The Chicago skyline, off in the distance, is just as majestic and the big lake that seems to know no bounds when seen looking out of the confines of Wrigley Field is just as magnificent as always.

But as Belleson again settles in and takes in the panoramic image from his office window located only a few feet to the window he peered up to as a boy, he can't help but become feel like he has a personal connection to one of baseball's greatest crown jewels.

After all, it's not often a man's voice becomes part of one of his favorite places on earth.

Andrew Belleson returns to work this week, perched above the setting where he first fell in love with baseball.

He came to Wrigley Field as a boy, each time making sure he and his parents had a clear view of Harry Caray's window from which the Cubs' iconic broadcaster leaned out of his window to conduct the singing of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch.

All these years later, Wrigley Field still hasn't lost its luster. Even though the frequency with which Belleson -- now the venue's public address announcer -- returns has changed dramatically.

"You basically get the chills when you walk in," Belleson says. "To be able to go in there and to be able to call it your office is probably the coolest thing."

At 25, Belleson struggles to characterize what he does for a living 81 days a year work. It's the ultimate summer job, working as the voice of the ballpark where you discovered a game, in a city that has always been home and for a team you have always loved.

It's then when a job no longer seems like work for Belleson, a lifelong Chicago-area resident. And it's at times like this when Belleson -- who landed his first baseball job at 15 -- still pinches himself to know that when the Cubs open the season against the Washington Nationals, it will be his voice that will be the soundtrack for the rite of spring passage.

Andrew Belleson had spent the better part of a day last spring in his suburban apartment reading, re-reading and re-re-reading the script of his 1 minute, 56-second audition that soon had to be captured on video and submitted before an impending deadline.

Belleson figures by the time it was all said and done, he had done it 25 times, made 25 minor tweaks and adjustments, hoping to make the next a bit more perfect than it had been the time before.