Mike Tyson believes he should never have lived long enough to fight Jake Paul. Not because of the injuries from the fight, but because of AIDS.
Tyson recently said: interview magazine “I shouldn't have talked about it here,” he says, after a few years ago when he shared a sexual partner with a friend and they both died from the disease.
“Life isn't over yet,” Tyson said. “We're still fighting. The only day we survive is the day we die. There's no way I'm here talking to you right now. All my friends are dead.
“They OD'd and had AIDS. Me and my friend both had sex with this girl at the same time, and we both died of AIDS. I didn't get AIDS. I didn't live. but.”
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Tyson agreed that “the spirit is adrift with him.”
“Amen. Something happened, sis,” Tyson said.
Mike Tyson (left) and Jake Paul face off during the weigh-in at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas, ahead of their heavyweight bout at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on November 15th. (Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images)
Tyson, now 58, admitted he would die one day anyway. But he doesn't care what kind of legacy he leaves behind.
“What bothers you about your heritage?” Tyson said. “I had no idea what heritage was, and people started throwing that word around so casually. Legacy sounds like ego to me. I'm going to die soon. Who cares what anyone thinks of me when I die?” Dead? We don't talk about Charles Manson. No one cares if they die. ”
Tyson was known for his eccentric sex life at the height of his career and was at times labeled a “sex addict.”
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Rudy Gonzalez, Tyson's former bodyguard and driver, will have “groupies” stationed in venue bathrooms and locker rooms before fights in 2021 due to Tyson's frequent need for sex to support his lifestyle. He told the US Sun that he had been instructed to do so.
“I had to find a groupie. It didn't matter who it was. He would say, 'If you don't have sex with me, I'm going to kill this guy right now,'” Gonzalez said. “Mike had to have sex to deplete his body, so he made the girls lock themselves in bathrooms and locker rooms.”
Mike Tyson speaks during the final press conference for his heavyweight bout against Jake Paul on November 13, 2024 at the Toyota Music Factory in Irving, Texas. (Ed Mulholland/Getty Images)
Tyson was convicted of rape in 1992. Tyson, then 25, was arrested in July 1991 for assaulting 18-year-old Desiree Washington in a hotel room. Although Tyson maintained his innocence, he was convicted and required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life under federal law.
In his 2013 memoir, “Undisputed Truth,'' he detailed the events leading up to his trial.
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Boxer Mike Tyson stands on the field before the game between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints at AT&T Stadium on September 15, 2024 in Arlington, Texas. (Kevin Jairaj/Imagn Images)
“I spent most of the six weeks between my rape conviction and sentencing traveling around the country romancing all of my various girlfriends,” the memoir states. There is. “This was my way of saying goodbye to them. And when I wasn't with them, I was fending off all the women who were proposing to me. Everywhere I went, people came up to me. There was a woman who said, “Now, I'm not going to say you raped me. Come with me. Let me film you.”
“I later realized that was their way of saying, 'I believe you didn't do it.' But I didn't take it that way. I was offended by the disrespectful response.” Even though they were saying what they wanted, I was too much of a pain, ignorant, crazy, bitter guy with a lot to grow up to be. I said this to support you.”
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