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Mike Tyson opens up to Tyson Fury on mortality

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Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson recently opened up to current contender Tyson Fury on his troubles at the top of the sport.

Tyson, 53, retired from boxing after a hectic return to the ring, which culminated in ‘The Baddest Man on the Planet’ fighting while under the influence of cocaine.

Before his ‘second career,” Tyson lived a rollercoaster life during the 1980s and 1990s, where partying, drugs, and women were the norm.

Years on, Tyson has found peace and is concentrating on his broadcast and acting opportunities and his lucrative cannabis business.

The pair recently sat down in the run-up to Fury’s fight with Swedish hope Otto Wallin in Las Vegas.

During the ‘HotBoxin’ Podcast,” Fury turned the tables on Tyson to ask questions himself.

Mike Tyson and Tyson Fury

The exchange went like this:

Tyson Fury: “This new life of yours has given you a new lease of life.”

Mike Tyson: “Yeah, thank God because my last f*cking life was an atrocity. Woah, I don’t know how all this sh*t happened, man, I mean f*ck.”

Tyson Fury: “Without all that catastrophic action, would you be the same man you are today without the experience?”

Mike Tyson: “Oh, I needed that experience, yeah.”

Tyson Fury: “You’re a living legend. I’m sitting here with a living legend.”

Mike Tyson: “Yeah, I’m just glad I’m living. I can’t believe I wanted to die so often. When I was young, I used to think, ‘God, I hate living.’ Now I’m 53, I love living, I don’t want to f*cking die, I wouldn’t say I like the fact I have to die now. Living is so interesting.”

Tyson Fury: “What’s the motivation, Mike now?”

Mike Tyson: “Just for me to absorb my existence and realize that life is a joke. I took it too seriously.

“I don’t know, not long after this, I’ll die soon, and I won’t exist anymore, and then I have to go to the other world. I’m going to see what that’s like.

“I can’t believe this energy that I have just died, and it doesn’t exist. It may not live here, but it has to go somewhere, and that’s what I’m looking forward to now.

“Because life is great, death has to be just as great as life.

“The worst day of my life, right, is my mother and children dying. The worst day of my life besides that incident that could have happened probably happened to everybody all over the world at that time. Life is still beautiful.”

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