Mike Tyson is giving us a little too much information about the wild a** life he’s lived throughout his career. While talking with Rosie Perez for Interview Magazine, he explained his view on life and how he knows it’s not his time to leave this earth yet.
“Hey, life isn’t over yet. We’re still fighting. We only make it out on the day of our death,” Tyson told Perez. “There’s no way I should be here talking to you right now. All my friends are dead.”
Tyson then explained how he dodged having AIDS after he didn’t contract the disease despite being intimate with someone who had it. Because he didn’t get sick, he believes he’s meant to keep fighting in this world!
“They OD’d, they had AIDS. Me and my friend both had sex with this girl at the same time and they both died of AIDS. I didn’t catch AIDS. Raw, too.”
“That’s crazy,” Perez said. “You have a spirit hovering over you.” In which Tyson replied, “Amen. It’s something, sister.”
Mike Tyson is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1985 and 2005, with a comeback fight in 2024. Nicknamed “Iron Mike” and “Kid Dynamite” in his early career, and later known as “the Baddest Man on the Planet”, Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time.[6] He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987 to 1990. Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. Claiming his first belt at 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days old, Tyson holds the record as the youngest boxer ever to win a heavyweight title.
He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Council (WBC), and International Boxing Federation (IBF) titles, as well as the only heavyweight to unify them in succession.
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