Mike Tyson On Preparing To Fight Floyd Mayweather & His Plan To Save The Sport Of Boxing
3/20/202635 min
Mike Tyson talks about what it takes to prepare for a potential fight with Floyd Mayweather and breaks down the mindset, discipline, and experience needed to compete at the highest level of boxing.In this episode of Double Coverage, Tyson opens up about growing up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, where fights didn’t end and survival was a daily reality. He explains how boxing gave him identity, purpose, and pride — and why he’s now focused on giving that same opportunity to the next generation.Tyson also shares the real reason behind the Mike Tyson Invitational, why amateur boxing is declining, and what needs to change for the sport to come back in America. From training habits to fighting experience, Tyson gives a raw, unfiltered perspective on what separates great fighters from everyone else.This is one of Mike Tyson’s most honest conversations about boxing, legacy, and helping young fighters become champions in life — not just in the ring. https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/DOUBLE Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/DOUBLE and use code DOUBLEand get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Clips
Transcript preview
First 90 secondsMike Tyson· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] What's up, guys? Mr. Xact here. Welcome back to episode 16 of Double Coverage. [laughs] Today, I am joined by the man who needs no introduction, the youngest heavyweight champion, the most ferocious to ever do it, Mr. Iron Mike Tyson. Wow, I didn't, uh, on introduction. I wasn't prepared for it. [laughs] It comes at you fast. How you been? Doing great. All right. It's a big switch up. We're here at the first annual Mike Tyson Invitational in Las Vegas. In MIT, yes. How do you, uh- Yeah ... how did this come together? In TI. Um, I was just, um... I went to... Listen, this is the truth. I never said this is the truth. [clears throat] I went to Richard Steele's gym in Vegas. For some reason, I had to go there. He'd asked me to come see the kids. I don't know why I was there, but I was there, and I saw the enthusiasm of the children and how enthusiastic. And then I watched some of them box. I said, "These are probably some locals. They don't know what they're doing. They just started." And some of them were good fighters. And I was saying, "Wow, these guys have a lot of determination and will." I said, "The world has to see this," and this is where I come from. Um, I come from a place, listen, I come from Brownsville, Brooklyn. It's the kind of place, um, when you open up your refrigerator, you see an apple. [laughs] One of those places the world... You know, it's just the, it's the worst place you could possibly think of for a kid.