Mike Tyson has a giant take a look at forward of him when he containers Jake Paul in a professional boxing struggle Friday November fifteenth in Arlington, Texas. Tyson hasn’t competed in years exterior of an exhibition match in opposition to Roy Jones Jr. in 2020. That was extra of a pleasant spar. The 27-year-old Paul is promising to knock “Iron Mike” out.
At 58 years previous, Tyson is not any spring rooster. His physique bears the wear and tear of a lifetime of heavyweight boxing, exhausting partying … and a foul hoverboard accident that Mike says destroyed his again.
Tyson vs. Hoverboard went down over Christmas 2015, on the peak of the hoverboard’s harmful energy. Folks had been consuming s— on the flimsy gadgets throughout America, and never even a boxer’s sense of steadiness may save Mike from bailing exhausting on his daughter’s hoverboard, injuring himself badly.
“Yeah, that ruined my life, I needed to get surgical procedure and all the pieces,” Tyson mentioned on the Artwork of Ward podcast. “My vertebrate and all the pieces. I needed to go to surgical procedure for that.”
“You wanna snicker now? After I went [to the hospital] there have been a bunch of different folks that fell off the hoverboard too within the emergency room. I wasn’t the one one. Think about, the identical night time, me and a bunch of individuals within the ward, what are you in for? ‘Hoverboard.’ ‘Hoverboard.’”
Tyson admitted getting on the hoverboard was his personal concept.
“Mine, you heard the children, ‘Daddy, please, don’t get on,’ — growth!” he mentioned. “I can’t consider my spouse put that on the market. I hit the ground, growth. The entire flooring shook.”
Thankfully, Tyson’s again has held up by way of coaching camp to this point — no bloody vomit or black ooze — and it’s trying just like the elder boxing legend will certainly get into the ring in opposition to Jake Paul subsequent week. For higher or worse, the freakshow struggle to finish all freakshow fights is occurring, and you may watch it free of charge with a Netflix subscription come Friday, November fifteenth.
