From turning into the youngest heavyweight champion in historical past to going to jail and owning pet tigers - Mike Tyson has had a loopy life.
The boxing legend’s wild journey is perfectly encapsulated via his odd relationship with Jackass star Steve-O who has had several bizarre run-ins with ‘Iron’ over the years.
Tyson first met the MTV daredevil, who celebrates 15 years sober in 2023, at a Hollywood party and they struck up a right away friendship over their shared love of cocaine.
"I have so many f***ing crazy Mike Tyson stories, man. Oh, my God. I’ve done f***ing cocaine with Mike Tyson, dude,” Steve-O told GQ in 2016.
“We spent three hours locked in a bathroom together. There was this house party in the Hollywood Hills. And I remember I was distinctly not invited, but I showed up and rang the doorbell.
“Mike Tyson opened up the door. I said, ‘Hey, is it cool if I come in?’ And he said, ‘You got any coke?’ And I told him, ‘Yeah, dude, I got a bunch.’ And I did. I had like a whole eight ball in one pocket, half an eight ball in the other pocket.
“Yeah, I was packing. So, we locked ourselves in this bathroom.”
After spending a wild night with Tyson, Steve-O didn’t see him again until they were both checked into a psychiatric hospital when their partying caught up with them.
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The 48-year-old says most of his second meeting with Tyson was spent trying to convince one of the most prolific KO artists in boxing history to punch him in the face.
"The subsequent time I spent real time with Mike Tyson, one-on-one conversing, used to be once we have been locked up within the psychiatric ward together,” Steve-O added.
“I used to be talking him into conserving out his fist with his elbow locked and letting me run into it with my face to check out to give myself a black eye. I used to be making an attempt to talk him into filming that with me once we got out. But I couldn’t talk him into it.”
However, Steve-O ultimately were given his method when they came together once more for The Roast of Charlie Sheen in September 2011.
After breaking his nostril while filming Jackass 3D, he convinced Tyson to cling his fist out and allow him to run into it in a hilarious reset strive.
Steve-O ended up breaking his nostril once more sooner than somebody from the target market put it again into place and it seems that did an excellent job as it’s been positive ever since.
“Then got here the Comedy Central Roast with Charlie Sheen, and we talked Mike into doing the thing and preserving his fist out, and I dove into Mike Tyson’s fist and landed on it with not anything however my nostril. Super broke my nose. Like, truly crazy broke it.
“I let this kung fu a***hollow set my nose at the spot, and it just grew to become out that he did a f***ing magnificent job. He principally mounted my nostril perfect. Everything I was hoping to get that [physician] dude to do, I were given achieved by Mike Tyson and a f***ing kung fu weirdo.”
Both men have severely calmed down in recent years and don’t see every other a lot but Steve-O says it’s at all times a great time when he bumps into Tyson.
He concluded: “I don’t see him a complete lot, but whenever I do, it’s great, guy. He’s just the nicest man. He truly is.”
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Steve-O is currently taking his ‘Bucket List’ tour world wide.
Meanwhile, Tyson seems content material in retirement after a comeback battle in opposition to Roy Jones Jr in 2020. The 56-year-old has a popular podcast and just lately opened a coffee shop in Amsterdam.
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