Mike Tyson was one of the many celebrities sitting down near the ring at the T-Mobile Center in Las Vegas when Floyd Mayweather fought Conor McGregor. He actually had one of the best seats in the house. Or at least, we thought he had one of the best seats in the house when we saw him sitting in a cluster of celebs that included LeBron James.
But Tyson was just a guest on DJ Whoo Kid’s SiriusXM Shade 45 radio show The Whoolywood Shuffle, and he suggested attending the fight wasn't all it was cracked up to be. During the discussion, Tyson said that he ended up sitting directly behind LeBron, which is why he spent most of the night watching the fight on the screens in the arena rather than what was happening right in front of him.
"[LeBron is] around 10 foot tall," Tyson said, "so when he stood up, I looked up at the fight [on the JumboTron] on the ceiling. They had the little tubes on the ceiling. I watched it on the ceiling. I was like, 'God, this guy’s tall.'"
Visual challenges aside, Tyson said he enjoyed everything Mayweather and McGregor had to offer. He said, "Everybody got their money’s worth," and he credited McGregor with helping both himself and Mayweather to rake in a ridiculous amount of cash for taking part in the fight.
"He promoted the fight," Tyson said. "Without him promoting the fight, the fight doesn’t make that money."
And when Whoo Kid asked Tyson if he would have ever entertained the idea of taking part in an MMA match, the legendary boxer said he wasn’t built for it.
"You gotta be a certain kind of person for that," he said. "You look at everybody like meat."
Evander Holyfield might argue against Tyson’s argument that he didn’t "look at everybody like meat"…but okay.
Elsewhere in the interview, Tyson talked about the time his boxing gym got raided by the FBI after he did an interview with a guy who turned out to be a serial killer. He also touched on the Chris Brown and Soulja Boy boxing match that never happened, and he once again talked about just how painful it was to find out that Brad Pitt once hooked up with his ex-wife Robin Givens.
You can check out Whoo Kid’s full interview with Tyson in the video above.
