Speaker 1: My guest is one of the greatest heavyweight boxing champions
Speaker 1: of all time. He returns to the ring in an
Speaker 1: official capacity to take on YouTuber turned professional boxer the
Speaker 1: one and Only Jake Paul November fifteenth at AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium in arlingin Texas, Live on Netflix. Please welcome
Speaker 1: the Man, the Myth, the Legend, Iron Mike himself, the
Speaker 1: one and Only Mike Tyson.
Speaker 2: What's up, big Time? How you doing bro? How you doing?
Speaker 3: Everything's great? Thank you?
Speaker 2: Thank you for The fight was supposed to be in July.
Speaker 1: It was postponed because of an ULCRA flare up, according
Speaker 1: to reports. First order of business, how are you feeling
Speaker 1: for this fight?
Speaker 3: Hey? I feel great. Everything fine.
Speaker 1: So I gotta ask you what made you want to
Speaker 1: fight Jake Paul. I mean, there's a lot of money,
Speaker 1: and that's always an incentive for all of us, but
Speaker 1: I get the feeling that it's not just that with you.
Speaker 2: What's up.
Speaker 4: I can use a bucket like everybody else, but this money.
Speaker 4: Believe they're not going to change my lifestyle, and it's
Speaker 4: not going to change my life. Be able to do
Speaker 4: what I'm normally able to do it if I didn't
Speaker 4: have this fight. It's just the fact this is what
Speaker 4: I want to do. I want to get out of
Speaker 4: my comfort zone and I want to test myself. Whatever
Speaker 4: I'm afraid to do, I do it. That's just my mentality.
Speaker 4: If I'm afraid to do something, I do it.
Speaker 2: You're attacking your fears.
Speaker 1: I remember years ago, Cam Chancellor for the Legion of
Speaker 1: Boom with the Seattle Seahawks when they were winning Super
Speaker 1: Bowls told me the great ones always attacked their fears.
Speaker 3: I never heard that before. That's pretty heavy.
Speaker 2: He told me.
Speaker 1: Iron Mike, he said, listen, I said, how do you
Speaker 1: ultimately end up being so successful as a teen? He said,
Speaker 1: everybody that enters this locker room, we find out what
Speaker 1: their fears are and we make them face it. That's
Speaker 1: how we do it. That's why we win. And that's
Speaker 1: what he said. Having said all of that, I want
Speaker 1: to say this. The fight's going to be live streamed
Speaker 1: on Netflix. Okay, tell me how you feel about Jake Paul.
Speaker 1: What do you think about him.
Speaker 2: As a fighter and why you took this fight with
Speaker 2: him him.
Speaker 4: And listen, I think he came a long way as
Speaker 4: a fighter from when he first came and first showed
Speaker 4: himself on Roy Jones.
Speaker 3: Mike Tyson caught.
Speaker 4: And he built himself up to be quite a sensation,
Speaker 4: and I think it was only right. It was a
Speaker 4: no brainer for me and him to fight. I started
Speaker 4: to my card on Tim. I'm finishing.
Speaker 1: How much pressure, if any at all, do you feel
Speaker 1: to win this fight, even though you're twice his age
Speaker 1: and you haven't been in the ring in an official
Speaker 1: sanctioned bout since two thousand and five. How are you
Speaker 1: feeling pressure wise about needing to beat him?
Speaker 4: Well, I feel a great condition Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Speaker 4: Thursday box eight round and I don't know I'm ready.
Speaker 4: I don't look at it. I'm some old guy that
Speaker 4: decrepit gonna fight this young guy. I'm fighting a guy
Speaker 4: with ten fights. You know, he's stational and he's hot.
Speaker 4: But I got ten fights, and I think I'm gonna
Speaker 4: have to handle this situation.
Speaker 2: You're gonna knock him out.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna hurt him.
Speaker 1: Yes, you know, watching Jake Paul, I really respect what he's.
Speaker 2: Done for his career.
Speaker 1: I really respect what he's done for the sport of boxing,
Speaker 1: because he's one of those guys that's saying, I don't
Speaker 1: have to depend on.
Speaker 2: Promoters to do this for me. I'll do it myself.
Speaker 1: Having said that, I'm tired of seeing him go up
Speaker 1: against boxers we don't know, or strike us from the
Speaker 1: UFC or basketball players.
Speaker 2: Something.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's in the ring with
Speaker 1: a former champion. What do you think you're gonna bring
Speaker 1: to the table that he has not seen?
Speaker 4: My whole existence? It's everything I listen. I hope be
Speaker 4: thinking this very seriously because his health depends on it.
Speaker 1: I was getting ready to ask you, why do you
Speaker 1: say that because his health, His health depends on it.
Speaker 1: Watching I'm imagining that you've watched him fight. What have
Speaker 1: you seen from him as a fighter that makes you.
Speaker 2: So confident you can take him out?
Speaker 3: Well, I'll keep that to myself.
Speaker 2: You ain't gonna tell me, Mike. You you ain't gonna
Speaker 2: say anything. You just gonna keep it to yourself.
Speaker 3: I wasn't to your ear when I see you in person.
Speaker 2: You know I'm looking at you right now.
Speaker 1: The last time we saw you fight, and the officially
Speaker 1: sanctioned bout was in two thousand and five when you
Speaker 1: lost to Kevin McBride. You lost to Danny Williams before
Speaker 1: that beat at the end, before that, when you look
Speaker 1: at yourself and and how you've aged, people look at
Speaker 1: you and they see you sparring, and they say, it's
Speaker 1: still a lot there.
Speaker 2: This is iron Mike Tyson mad respect for him.
Speaker 1: What do you believe that you've done since retirement that
Speaker 1: has you so confident that this is a fight that
Speaker 1: you could win against somebody half your age.
Speaker 4: I stopped doing drugs, that stopped drinking liquor. I stopped
Speaker 4: your stole my life away, and I took my life serious.
Speaker 4: That became a you know, basically a responsible family person.
Speaker 3: That makes any sense?
Speaker 2: Okay, well when did you When did you stop all
Speaker 2: of that? When would you say you stopped all of that?
Speaker 3: Eight years ago? Might be nine, but I'm given eight.
Speaker 2: And what happened that made you stop eight or nine
Speaker 2: years ago?
Speaker 4: I had some experience with I had a psychedelic experience
Speaker 4: DMT experience.
Speaker 2: At age fifty eight?
Speaker 1: How do you train to fight an opponent like Jake
Speaker 1: Paul at age fifty eight? What's different now compared to
Speaker 1: let's say, what you would have done in your younger
Speaker 1: hey day?
Speaker 4: Far and gets sparring partners far training shape, your strength
Speaker 4: and conditioning. Just do the basics you know and give
Speaker 4: it the best you got, give it everything you have
Speaker 4: three times a day.
Speaker 1: Mike, Do you think your ultimate advantage is the fact
Speaker 1: that he hasn't been in the ring with a true,
Speaker 1: true boxer who who's a power puncher that has really
Speaker 1: really tested him.
Speaker 3: I advantage that I'm just a better fighter, period. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Look, man, before I'll let you get on out of here,
Speaker 1: it's a couple of things that I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up because I wanted to promote this for you. Quick
Speaker 1: service plant based food company you invested in, mister Charlie's
Speaker 1: told me so, yes, but what got you?
Speaker 2: What got you.
Speaker 1: Involved in a quick service plant based food company?
Speaker 2: You're eating some of that stuff to train for this fight?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm here some strong believe in self awareness and
Speaker 4: taking care of yourself.
Speaker 3: And what then, what people put in their body is
Speaker 3: what they are.
Speaker 2: If you win this fight. When you win, when you
Speaker 2: win this fight, in.
Speaker 1: A lot of people's eyes, especially if you do it
Speaker 1: by knockout, is are you one and done or are
Speaker 1: you the type of person approaching approaching sixty years of
Speaker 1: age that's gonna think you could go back and the
Speaker 1: ring and do it again.
Speaker 3: And listen, Sky's the Limits, Brother, Sky's the Limits.
Speaker 1: Good luck, my man. It's good to talking to you,
Speaker 1: my brother. Thank you very much, no doubt, the one
Speaker 1: and only Mike Tyson himself right here with your boy
Speaker 1: Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith on a Stephen A. Smith Show.
Speaker 1: You can check out the long away that Tyson versus
Speaker 1: Jake Paul fights streaming live and free on Netflix. Remember Friday,
Speaker 1: November fifteenth. Don't miss it. Don't miss it.