No one possesses a more vivid imagination than children. With a propensity to reach dizzying heights, it breaches any logic crossing its path and anchors in the comic land. Else, how would you explain children longing for their parents to dress up as nattily and dapper as their superstars or heroes? Mike Tyson, for sure, can vouch. For he faces mayhem at home when his children run riot, hankering and pulling him up to dress up like a few sports icons they love.
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The darling father that he is, Mike Tyson blew the lid off a few household stories during a pleasant conversation with New York-based radio host and actress Angela Martinez.
Mike Tyson, at his perspective best
The hour-long interview, now available on YouTube, brought out the innermost feelings and ghosts of the youngest Heavyweight champion in Boxing’s history. Thoroughly enjoying himself, Mike played his part well and laid bare aspects of his life unknown to many.
With around ten minutes left, Angela was curious to know how Mike dealt with the limelight. More so, given the sudden surge of interest in his life after retirement and the new career in entrepreneurship. Iron Mike acknowledged that he treats his role in the media akin to one having divinity. When he takes over the microphone, his views, opinions, and worldview matter the most to him. He assumes the role of the platform where people come, say, and just be themselves around him.
Angela then praised Mike for having healthy relationships. She said, “I think you have a pretty healthy relationship you have to be able to have a healthy relationship.”
Nodding his head, Tyson interjected resignedly, “I don’t know; my kids don’t seem to think so. My kids telling me that I’m one of my God complexes I’m thinking this and….and Madonna and Magic Johnson Michael Jordan is so much flyer than you.”
The last part of the confession was too much for Mike, who laughed with delight.
The Magic bar of Iron Mike’s children
As her curiosity got the better, Angela asked, “Wait is that the bar in your house is like, are you compared to all these other goats? Is that what happened?”
Ever the jovial man, Mike shared that in case his daughter finds him talking about himself, she will immediately rush to him and rap him for not turning out like Magic Johnson,
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“No it’s just that I was talking about myself and the my daughter might say, um might see Magic Johnson with a I don’t know a fur coat or something why you not wearing the fur coat dad why you don’t have a fur coat flyer ….. she’s gonna tell me Madonna’s not bigger than you Dad come on dad…”
Unable to suppress their laughter, it was too much for both the host and her guest.
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The number of people who saw the video is more than seventy thousand. The chucklesome and fun-loving side of the Baddest Man on the Planet is maneuvering itself through the labyrinthine trails of the internet. Measuring the number of people joining his legions of fans may require a different yardstick, perhaps.