As part of the promotion for his upcoming boxing fight against Jake ‘The Problem Child’ Paul, Mike Tyson is on a media tour and revisiting all the moments that shaped him – including painful ones that he’d rather we all forget.
Back in 2015, a video from the Tyson household hit the internet in which the legendary former boxing champion suffered a particularly painful fall from a hoverboard; a fall so bad that it actually needed corrective surgery.
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Mike Tyson admits he needed surgery after viral hoverboard fall
In 2003, Mike Tyson famously knocked out Clifford Etienne in just 49 seconds before revealing to the ring announcer that he’d fought through the bout with a broken back – 12 years later, Tyson would fall to back issues once again, albeit an error of his own making.
Eight years ago, Tyson was videoed trying out one of his children’s new Christmas toys, a hoverboard, with his wife filming the scene on her phone camera.
After a smooth 360 spin, Tyson tried to hover his way towards his partner, before the board quickly got out from under him – sending the legendary champion crashing to the wooden floor.
That clip garnered millions upon millions of views from around the world and in a recent interview on the ‘All The Smoke Fight’ Podcast, Tyson revealed that he actually needed to undergo corrective surgery after the fall.
“Listen, today, I was in training hitting the heavy bag and was walking around and there was a skateboard there – my trainer said ‘Mike, stay away from that’ and I’m like ‘Man, you’re crazy’… But yeah, that [hoverboard] ruined my life, I had to get surgery and everything.
Whilst Tyson is blessed with insane knockout power, he’s also got an incredible sense of humor and as the podcast host keeled over in laughter, Tyson upped the story with a fresh admission.
“But listen I had to go to surgery for that but you’re going to laugh now – I went there [to hospital] and there was a bunch of other people there that’d fallen off hoverboards too in that same emergency room!
“I wasn’t the only one, can you imagine?! That same night some people all in an emergency room [because of] this hoverboard.”
Tyson admitted that the failed stunt was his idea, although he did seem a little dejected that his wife had posted the video to social media for the world to see: “I can’t believe that my wife put it out there.
“That’s how hard I hit the floor, boom – the whole floor shook.”
Tyson will be hoping that the boxing world will be shaken when he steps back into the ring on Friday, November 15, to face divisive internet personality Jake ‘The Problem Child’ Paul.
That controversial bout will take place at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, and will be livestreamed via the Netflix platform in what could be the single most-watched boxing fight in history.
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