‘The Baddest Man On The Planet’ Mike Tyson has various sides to his personality that have emerged after witnessing different phases of life. From touching sky-high success to losing all of it at one point, Tyson’s life has been full of trials. It has clearly fetched him immense experience, which he never shies to share with the people surrounding him.
Aged 55, Mike Tyson is now a philanthropist and a boxing legend, whom many consider as their idol to amassing success in the sport. Tyson’s boxing career and personal life have been pretty similar, where he earned and lost a lot. However, he remains a prime enigma, and his life lessons are still inspiring enough to motivate anyone.
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Mike Tyson’s HotBoxin’ podcast stores several such tales that give an insight into Tyson’s life. That said, US mountain climber, Joby Ogwyn, learned it emotionally. He couldn’t help himself from getting teary-eyed when Mike Tyson delivered his perception of life.
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The former heavyweight champion said, “Life is beautiful but you have to accept the good and bad as being beautiful. You can’t accept the good or just then we lose someone, our life sucks. Life is beautiful because life give us the ability to just know them on our journey in life.”
“We met them, we loved them, we cared about and they cared about us. That’s the purpose of life. Just enjoy what we have while we journey through it.”
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Tyson has shared tears several times, too. It leaves the mark of him being an emotional human being. Although most of his life, Tyson was seen as a machine of destruction while his life after retirement, reflects a different picture.
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At this age, Tyson can still compete in exhibition bouts. Having said so, he has the ability to spin over $100 million paydays even today. In November 2020, Tyson ended his 15-year-long layoff to take on Roy Jones Jr. in a Triller PPV. However, he doesn’t intend to do so again.
According to Tyson, the money he was promised for the fight has still not been fully paid as yet. He also ridiculed the promoters to have put business plans into the thing, which he did for fun.
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Thus, we may have seen the last of Mike Tyson in the ring, as he also has several more ventures to look at.