Mike Tyson has always had a reputation for not being in control. In a boxing match, he once bit off a piece of his opponent’s ear. Did Tyson hit a man on a plane? A video suggests so.
Boxing legend Mike Tyson apparently beat up a passenger on a plane.
A spokesman for Tyson confirmed a conflict in the machine when asked by the German Press Agency: “Unfortunately, Mr Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began to harass him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat sat.” The spokesman did not directly confirm a video circulating on the Internet.
It shows a man beating up a young man sitting behind him on the plane. According to the celebrity magazine “TMZ”, it was 55-year-old Tyson. Photos of the allegedly beaten man with red marks on his face also spread rapidly on the Internet.
Report: Mike Tyson was provoked
According to “TMZ”, the passenger provoked Tyson and did not stop talking to him. “Iron Mike” was initially friendly, but then asked the man to calm down. When the passenger failed to do so, Tyson hit him several times, the website reports, citing a witness. According to the report, the incident happened when the ex-boxer wanted to fly to Florida from San Francisco. Tyson left the machine before the start. The police and the airline JetBlue initially did not comment on the incident.
Notorious for his hard punches, Tyson is considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxers in history. However, he repeatedly made negative headlines and got into trouble with the law. In the early 1990s, he was sentenced to several years in prison after allegations of rape. 25 years ago he bit off a piece of his opponent Evander Holyfield’s ear in a heavyweight boxing match.
Source: Stern
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