Mike Tyson Goes Ballistic On Flight, Bloodies Passenger's Face With Repeated Punches
By Rima Pundir on April 21, 2022 at 2:15 PM EDT
Mike Tyson did it again, please excuse our quoting Britney Spears on this, (although she too, did it again, by getting a speeding ticket). Tyson's life revolves around violence, professionally but once every too often, he has let this violence spill into his personal life.
On Wednesday night, he seemed to have lost his infamous temper yet again, on an overly excited passenger who allegedly would not leave him alone. So he left with a bloodied face instead.
Mike Tyson Told Passenger To Chill
According to TMZ, the incident happened around 10:30 PM PT as the former undisputed heavyweight champion, 55, was preparing to fly from San Francisco to Florida, out of San Francisco International Airport. A witness says that he and his friend spotted Tyson on the JetBlue flight, who seemed to be okay with all the attention he got from them, as well as the other passengers.
The witness told TMZ that Tyson even took selfies with him but his super-excited friend would not leave Tyson alone and kept badgering him, trying to talk to him. Eventually, the heavyweight champion told the guy to "chill" but when he didn't, Tyson got up and began to throw some punches.
Eventually, the overexcited fan was left bloodied and bruised, and many of the said punches have been captured in a video, playing below.
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The witness told TMZ that after the incident, Tyson walked off the plane just seconds later. The man who was punched received medical attention and then went to the police, although there has been no word of any charges brought forward against Tyson for the moment.
Instagram has gone off the funnier end, with comments like, "I know Will Smith like thank you, Mike, for taking the media spotlight off me lol" and "Making Tyson angry in a closed space might not be the smartest thing!"
It's Been A Strange Week For Mike Tyson
Just last week, on Friday's installment of "The Joe Rogan Experience", Tyson floated some bizarre theories. The pair first lit up two separate joints while sitting across from each other at Rogan's podcasting table, and amidst the smoky high, Tyson told Rogan that "whatever you think a human did to another human being - it happened. Whatever it is, it happened."
Rogan wondered if he meant sometime in history to which Tyson replied, "Yeah, and sometimes these special camps and stuff it happens. These people own these thousands of acres and nothing grows on 'em."
Tyson then floated the theory that homeless people were being kidnapped off the streets, drugged, and then being hunted by other human beings for pleasure.
If that sounds familiar, as a plot, then you could be thinking of John Saul's book, "The Manhattan Hunt Project".
But Tyson is serious, as he carried on saying, "'This is what happens: they take these homeless people off the streets. Put 'em in there, take them to one of those special hospitals. [Then], they take them from the hospital, all drugged up, take 'em to these large estates, property - 'let's hunt' - Run!"
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At this point in time, Rogan mentioned Richard Connell's "The Most Dangerous Game". This was a short story published in 1924 about a big game hunter from New York City who is hunted for sport on a Russian aristocrat's private island in the Caribbean. But Tyson did not confirm whether he'd read the work.
He then asked Rogan what was "the only reason we hunt the fox?" Rogan assumed it was for the fur but Tyson propounded, "Fox is the only one that backs tracks. That's the only challenging chase, everything else is too easy. So now, they say "well the fox is the most reasonable animal, let's try a human animal, see how reasonable he is."'
Tyson Spoke About DMT Toads As Well
In the three-hour, cannabis-fueled chat, Tyson told the podcaster that a DMT Toad told him to return to boxing, and so he did in his 2021 comeback fight against Bob Sapp. During a psychedelic trip on DMT, a toad told him to go back and fight, and so Tyson listened to the road. He also spoke about the daily routine of owning pet tigers.
Of course, Mike Tyson is no stranger to weed-fueled stuff, considering the Brooklyn native launched his own cannabis brand, Tyson 2.0, in November of 2021. And just last month, Tyson also brought out a cannabis gummy edible called "Mike Bites" to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the infamous 'Bite Fight,' when he bit a chunk of out Evander Holyfield's cartilage.
The Mike Bites are shaped like bitten-off ears. No, we are not kidding. Have a look:
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