“An Icon Was Being Super Harrassed”- UFC World Including Dana White and Israel Adesanya React to the Viral Mike Tyson Encounter

The recent Mike Tyson video has the whole combat sports world reacting to it. The video shows Tyson getting involved with a man in a discomforting situation on the plane. However, it appears the former heavyweight boxer got constantly poked, which perhaps led to him doing what he did.

The UFC fighters and other commodities also gave their opinion on ‘Iron Mike‘s video.

UFC fighters came in support of Mike Tyson

The legendary heavyweight boxer is a beloved personality in the UFC space. Tyson is an inspiration for many fighters. Also, even the UFC fighters themselves face fans, making a moment uncomfortable.

Thus, considering all of that, the UFC personalities backed Mike Tyson.

UFC President Dana White, who had an incident with Mike Tyson in a similar setting, advised everyone and suggested, “Hey dummies, for future reference, this is how you stay alive when bumping into @MikeTyson on an airplane.”

UFC lightweight prospect Terrance McKinney suggested everyone should give fighters their personal space.

MMA fighter and jiujitsu legend, Garry Tonon, put the staff on the plane under the bus.

“Gotta love how flight attendants can pay enough attention to tell you to lift your mask every 2 seconds and shake people awake because of it, but they can’t notice a guy harassing Mike Tyson for 15 minutes and kick him off the plane.” – Tweeted Tonon.

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Even Israel Adesanya reacted with a picture of him and Tyson and said, “Thank you.”

Apart from these MMA fighters, many famous personalities reacted to the video and had positive words for Tyson. It includes popular entities such as Jake Paul, Ryan Garcia, Claressa Shields, and more.

Mike Tyson’s spokesperson issues a statement

A spokesperson of Mike Tyson gave a statement, per reports from ESPN, following the incident.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.” 

Also, per ESPN, an official officer provided an update about the guy Tyson supposedly punched. The official officer said, “That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,”

What do you think of the UFC community backing Mike Tyson? Share your thought in the comments.

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