The legendary boxer Mike Tyson recently spoke about how he handled getting beaten in sparring when he was training.
Mike Tyson opens up on the incident
On Hot Boxin’ with Mike Tyson, the pro-boxing legend stated:
“My sparring partner beat my a*s that day, I said ‘I want him tomorrow. I want him first.’ Get his a*s back. Because he keeps kicking my a*s and one day BOOM, he’s sleeping.”
It seems Tyson was not usually suffering the defeats because often Tyson was left without partners due to his ruthless style of training. It was revealed to the Sun by a former bodyguard of Tyson’s, Rudy Gonzalez, that sparring sessions were scheduled in five-hour increments. But typically, they only lasted one:
“He would be the nicest guy beforehand asking the sparring partners: ‘How you doing today, how’s the family?’ Then he would just knock five guys out so within an hour there was nobody left.”
Gonzalez had further stated that the boxers would refuse to partner with Tyson, no matter how much they were offered in payment to get in the ring with him. So, one day he decided to ask Tyson why he liked to end their sessions so quickly. Tyson had this to say:
“If I keep it going, we will miss Tom and Jerry cartoons.
The Boxing legend Mike Tyson recently dropped some hints about his possible return to the ring as he showed off his tumultuous speed. ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ is now 55-years-old and is earning a whopping £500k-a-month from his cannabis empire. He has been witnessed openly speaking about marijuana consumption. He recently teased a new line of marijuana products in Boston.
The heavyweight legend made a spectacular return in November 2020, more than 15 years after he announced his retirement from boxing. ‘Iron Mike’ drew in an eight-round exhibition with fellow American great Roy Jones Jr, 53, on a Triller pay-per-view which sold a reported 1.6million packages.
