Mike Tyson is being credited with breaking up a brawl at a media day event for a fight the one-time heavyweight champ was promoting.
According to TMZ, while promoting an upcoming "Friday Night Fights" card in Minnesota Tyson got in the middle of two young fighters who started to go after one another right there on stage, reminiscent of the way he and Lennox Lewis came to blows during a similarly held event heralding their 2002 heavyweight match.
But this time, the once self-professed, "baddest man on the planet" would have none of it, breaking up the fight before it could really get started.
After a career during which he became the youngest fighter in history to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at just 20 years old, the now 47-year-old Tyson entered the arena of promotions in August of 2013 by teaming up with Acquinity Interactive to form Iron Mike Productions.
During his heydey as a fighter, Tyson won his first 19 pro fights by knockouts, 12 of them in the first round. Tyson is also the first fighter to hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles all at the same time. Tyson last fought in June of 2011 and finished his career with a 50-6 record.
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