- I'm Mike Tyson
and I'm going undercover on the internet.
[funky music]
This is actually me.
Okay this is tough.
[typing]
Twitter.
[typing]
Hello, Mike Tyson owns a weed farm.
Yes I own a weed farm.
It's in Palm Springs, California.
And there's I don't know 400 acres property.
All right.
Mike Tyson.
Mr. Mike Tyson settle an argument for me
would you take an uppercut to the chin,
no gloves from yourself in your prime
for half a billion dollars?
Absolutely.
Yes.
[whistle]
Quora.
[typing]
Why did Mike Tyson stop boxing?
Because I couldn't do it anymore.
And I didn't think that it would necessary
continuing boxing if I wasn't at my best.
Why did Mike Tyson bite Evander Holyfield's ear
during their 1997 Heavyweight bout?
I got very frustrated
and discouraged and stuff.
And he was headbutting me
and I was really mad
and I didn't know what to do.
And I just exploded and I bit his ear,
no matter of fact I bit it twice.
And I'm truly sorry.
[typing]
IMDb.
High pitched Brooklyn accented voice,
speaks with a noticeable lisp,
iconic face tattoo
commonly mistaken as an African Tribal symbol,
wild behavior on and off the ring.
What about that?
Wikipedia.
[typing]
By the age of 13 I've been arrested 38 times.
He end at the Tryon School for Boys
in Johnstown, New York.
Tyson's emerging boxing ability
discovered there by Bobby Stewart.
Yeah that was true.
Bobby Stewart the first person that ever
discovered any kind of talent that showed me
that I had ability to do anything I thought.
I was a young kid,
I didn't think it was anything I was capable of doing.
I didn't think I had a really,
a purpose in this world.
I didn't really care about being in this world
at that time in my life.
He introduced me to Cus D'Amato.
And I started going to school.
And I started improving as a person.
And boxing gave me the confidence
to do things I never believed that I could do before.
It gave me an ego,
which is probably the worst thing that happened,
with my experience with boxing.
That I discovered an ego.
Other than that,
boxing was great.
[typing] [bright music]
YouTube.
[typing]
Who is this guy next to Mike in the black shades?
That's my man, Crocodile.
Crocodile Steven Finch.
He's a motivational trainer,
one of my trainers.
He's still around.
He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.
All right.
Why is Mike Tyson feeding his pigeons Fuji water?
Well, I love my pigeons.
My pigeons are right after my children.
I wouldn't feed my birds anything I wouldn't eat or drink,
so I give them everything I eat and drink.
[whistle]
What is Mike Tyson's face tattoo supposed to represent?
Yes, I have a nice tattoo.
Me and my friend created this,
and it's a Maori,
a New Zealand tribe warrior tattoo.
And I thought it was pretty cool.
So I had the tattoo put on my face.
How would Mike Tyson do in the UFC?
I don't know what I would do in the UFC,
because I watched the UFC a couple times
and I watched these guys step on people's feet.
And I have the worst feet in the world.
And if somebody stepped on my feet,
I would totally tap out.
I would just give up.
It would be a no brainer.
Reddit.
[click]
Prime time Mike versus Prime Evander?
Yes I think Tyson would have edged him.
Evander himself admits the Rooney Tyson
was totally different beast to the one he fought.
Hey I don't know,
we can't take that stuff away from Evander Holyfield.
He won that fight.
He had the nerve to get in the ring.
He had to take that chance.
So regardless, I think he's great fighter.
And he deserves the claim of being
a legendary great fighter too.
Mike, do you still have those overalls?
You should bring them back out.
I was thinking that too.
I like these overalls.
They are pretty awesome.
I couldn't find them,
I probably couldn't fit them.
[whistle]
How did Mike Tyson get such a powerful punch?
Okay, I think I was born that way.
But I developed it through Cus D'Amato telling me
repetitiously over and over again to do this movement.
And to punch with this type of bad intention.
And just that ferociousness.
And mean intentions whenever you throw your punches.
And try to punch through your opponent and not at him.
You know, really nasty things I would never
tell my kids to do.
Who would win in a street fight
between Mike Tyson in his prime and Floyd Mayweather?
I think I would really,
kick Floyd's ass in a street fight.
It wouldn't even be a match
but probably if I was his size in the ring,
he would outpoint me.
Yeah.
He has a really good technique for his style.
Yeah, he's really great at what he does.
More IMBd.
All right, what's this thing?
What's that $3 million?
Could have.
I don't know.
Yeah, I did.
I think I did.
You're right.
I think I was broke at Wrestle Mania.
I needed some money.
I think that was a big thing that we made a lot of money.
Yeah.
He took a lot of the money to pay bills so he
didn't really receive much of it.
What was Mike Tyson's diet?
My diet pretty much is I don't eat anything
that has a mother and father.
If you were created through a mother and father,
through any kind of intercourse,
I wouldn't eat you.
That means I only eat vegetables and stuff.
When I was fighting,
I ate a steak, some vegetables.
And right before,
an hour or so before the fight,
I would have chocolate bar and orange juice.
Just to get a quick sugar rush before I go in the ring.
All right.
What is Mike Tyson's 'peek-a-boo' style?
See a peak-a-boo style is a style I learned
from Cus D'Amato when I started fighting at
thirteen years old, I believe.
Your hands up high.
Your gloves up high.
Your elbows close to your ribs,
protect your ribs.
And your fists close to your jaw to protect your jaw,
underneath your cheeks.
Not above your cheeks so you won't deter your vision.
So underneath your cheeks.
Everyone has their own style.
But for me that was the most practical for me,
because I was a short boxer.
I wasn't tall.
I had short arms.
So it was very difficult for me to get to my opponent,
so I had to use the Peek-a-boo style,
to be very aggressive but still be elusive.
In order not to get hit,
and in order to come in and attack my opponent.
And more Twitter.
So does Mike Tyson really not like fighting?
And is he real hobby racing pigeons?
Yes, I don't like fighting anymore.
I'm not a violent person to that degree.
My only reason I would probably be violent is if
you harass my children or my wife.
Other than that I wouldn't do nothing.
Yes, I've been racing... not racing pigeons.
But I've been a pigeon fan and flying pigeons
since I was nine years old.
[whistle]
This is my pedigree stuff right here.
- [Unknown Man] You give them the Fiji water too.
- [Mike Tyson] Everything.
- But really Mike still living like this?
He's supposed to be broke.
I don't know what happened.
And they are absolutely right.
There's no reason I should be living like this.
But the reason why I am living like this is
because I have an awesome wife
and she is in my corner.
And I don't know how we did it.
We managed to come out of $60 million worth of debt,
something to that degree.
My wife Kiki is my best friend.
Kiki's my psychiatrist.
Kiki's just the bomb.
We have an awesome life together with our awesome kids.
I would never have the relationship with all my kids
the way I have now if I didn't have my wife.
Does Mike Tyson really have a pet tiger?
At one time, I did have a pet tiger.
Her name was Kenya.
And she was around 550 pounds.
I had a great affection for her.
I kept her.
I slept with her.
I kept her in my room.
She stayed with me.
I had her for probably sixteen years.
She was massive monster.
You can't imagine the size of her.
She got too old and I had to get rid of her.
Her eyes and her hip got bad.
And plus she ripped somebody's arm off.
[beep]
Hey, that's me and I'm signing the fuck off the internet.