As a part of the promotion for his upcoming boxing fight against Jake ‘The Problem Child’ Paul, Mike Tyson is on a media tour and revisiting all of the moments that shaped him – including painful ones that he’d somewhat all of us forget.
Back in 2015, a video from the Tyson household hit the web through which the legendary former boxing champion suffered a very painful fall from a hoverboard; a fall so bad that it actually needed corrective surgery.
Mike Tyson admits he needed surgery after viral hoverboard fall
In 2003, Mike Tyson famously knocked out Clifford Etienne in only 49 seconds before revealing to the ring announcer that he’d fought through the bout with a broken back – 12 years later, Tyson would fall to back issues once more, albeit an error of his own making.
Eight years ago, Tyson was videoed trying out one among his children’s recent Christmas toys, a hoverboard, together with his wife filming the scene on her phone camera.
After a smooth 360 spin, Tyson tried to hover his way towards his partner, before the board quickly got out from under him – sending the legendary champion crashing to the picket floor.
That clip garnered thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of views from around the globe and in a recent interview on the ‘All The Smoke Fight’ Podcast, Tyson revealed that he actually needed to undergo corrective surgery after the autumn.
“Listen, today, I used to be in training hitting the heavy bag and was walking around and there was a skateboard there – my trainer said ‘Mike, avoid that’ and I’m like ‘Man, you’re crazy’… But yeah, that [hoverboard] ruined my life, I needed to get surgery and the whole lot.
Whilst Tyson is blessed with insane knockout power, he’s also got an incredible humorousness and because the podcast host keeled over in laughter, Tyson upped the story with a fresh admission.
“But listen I needed to go to surgery for that but you’re going to laugh now – I went there [to hospital] and there was a bunch of other people there that’d fallen off hoverboards too in that very same emergency room!
“I wasn’t the just one, are you able to imagine?! That very same night some people all in an emergency room [because of] this hoverboard.”
Tyson admitted that the failed stunt was his idea, although he did seem a bit dejected that his wife had posted the video to social media for the world to see: “I can’t consider that my wife put it on the market.
“That’s how hard I hit the ground, boom – the entire floor shook.”
Tyson will likely be hoping that the boxing world will likely be shaken when he steps back into the ring on Friday, November 15, to face divisive web personality Jake ‘The Problem Child’ Paul.
That controversial bout will happen on the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and will likely be livestreamed via the Netflix platform in what may very well be the only most-watched boxing fight in history.
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