Former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson punched a fellow airline passenger after the person “threw a water bottle at him,” Tyson’s spokesperson has said.
Video taken on the plane shows Tyson leaning over his seat as he lands repeated punches an unidentified man.
A spokesperson for the boxing Hall of Famer confirmed Tyson had an “incident with an aggressive passenger” who was “harassing him”.
Police were dispatched and temporarily detained two individuals.
One person was treated at San Francisco International Airport for non-life threatening injuries.
“That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to co-operate further with the police investigation,” a spokeswoman for the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
The attack occurred on board a JetBlue fight on Wednesday night, before it set off from San Francisco to Florida.
The video – published by TMZ – does not show the entirety of the altercation and a water bottle is not visible in the footage.
According to TMZ, Tyson had agreed to take a picture with the passenger at the beginning of the flight. But the man continued to harass Tyson, despite requests from Tyson to “chill”.
The video of Tyson striking his fellow passenger includes audio of another person calling “hey Mike, Mike”, seemingly trying to calm him while another person tries to push Tyson away.
It then shows the passenger’s forehead, which appears bloodied.
Tyson is no stranger to violence inside and outside the ring.
In 1992, he was convicted of rape and served three years in prison. In 1997, he was disqualified from a fight after biting off part of his opponent’s ear.
And in 1998, Tyson pleaded no contest to a misdemeanour assault following a car accident in Maryland.
Since February 2021, more than 7,000 unruly passenger incidents have been reported in the US – though 70% of them involved masking rules, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Source: BBC News
lol I not hearing nobody “condemning” that act of violence lmao
He got good Mike, dirty Mike would have bitten his nose off. He was lucky.
@Canadian Superstar Mike is the exact replica of you, a has been, defunct, broke and washed up…at least mike still got a punch
@canadian…… u must be white like chass hence these comments…smh
These White Men does look for Problems with Famous black men Just to make Money .Tyson didn’t givehim enough Punches
Mike’s brain is as “soft” as his hands are . That loser couldn’t punch the lights out on a lame drunk guy. that Guy should press assault charges and sue Mike’s ass off. Opps! too late Mike’s ass is dead broke. He’s already flying coach. No 1st class for washed up broke ass nigjer’s.
You must really love looming at your image in the mirror. Seriously fool?
He was flying first class you self hating house slave. Mike has his own line of edibles and marijuana and is making millions. People like you go overseas and scrape crumbs off the ground and live as a 3rd class citizen. Yet you try to make yourself feel important by making post like these. You’re making comments on this website 24/7 so you can’t have anything good going on in your personal life. Feel sorry for you.
Good going Mike knock his head off…..you tell them leave you alone over and over they want to get suicidal, drunk and disorderly…must be White because Black Folks would know better don’t mess with mike clown wanted to be suicidal