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The eccentric and talented boxer Mike Tyson It has gotten used to being in the news in recent weeks. After confirming his return to the ring – he will face Roy Jones Jr. on September 12-, the American boxer has given an interview in which he has confessed the lowest moment of his troubled life.
As reported, the event occurred in 2009, when he beat seven prostitutes while consuming morphine. As a result of the drugs he had used, Tyson acknowledged having suffered paranoia and convinced himself that the women he was with wanted to rob him. “Lying on the bed of a hotel room, I try to never be alone, even if I am a prostitute or a dog,” he said. This is really dark. I am in my hotel suite, I have seven women there with a dropper of morphine, my cocaine, my Cialis (like Viagra), my marijuana and my Hennessy, “he says.
A most murky episode of one of the most reprehensible athletes of recent times. “And I hit rock bottom because I got paranoid and I thought these women were trying to rob me and harass me. I started hitting them. It was in a very dark place. However, there was a purpose because I didn’t want to give them more parts of my soul, “he added. That’s where I hit rock bottom. I’m grateful to be here, “and then say,” No more cocaine. No more. Three years clean ».
Back to the fighting
Tyson has been preparing in recent months to regain physical fitness that allows him to get back into the ring. In this sense, the boxer will be measured in September to the legend Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition match. On the other hand, it is planned that later he will face Evander Holyfield.
So to your 54 years, Tyson could be reunited with Holyfield by the end of 2020. However, the latter, despite wishing him luck for his duel with Roy Jones Jr., has thrown a thumb at his colleague: “Mike has wanted another exhibition before fighting me . I wish him well. By doing this, you can spoil a future match against me. When you do a second fight, people will judge you by how the first one was. Fans may not want to see it again“He commented on BoxingScene.com.
It should be remembered that in 1996 Hollyfield (44-10-2, 29 KOs) beat Tyson (50-6, 44 KOs) by technical KO in the eleventh round. The following year, he took the victory in the rematch again when Tyson, in one of the most commented images in the history of sports, was disqualified for biting his ear. «I have several candidates. I’ve been training not because of a fight with Tyson. I train because that’s what I do. I’m not going to get burned thinking “when is it going to happen?” He said about it.
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