Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had a medical emergency Sunday on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives stated Monday.
Tyson “grew to become nauseous and dizzy on account of an ulcer flare-up half-hour earlier than touchdown,” his consultant stated in a press release to The Occasions. “He’s appreciative to the medical workers that have been there to assist him.”
Tyson is now “doing nice,” in line with the consultant.
Tyson, 57, has been getting ready to combat 27-year-old YouTube influencer Jake Paul on July 20 in Arlington, Texas. Tyson reigned as a world champion from 1987 to 1990, however retired from skilled boxing in 2005 — when Paul was a toddler.
The combat can be televised reside on Netflix; the streaming big has expanded its push into reside leisure in latest months with “The Roast of Tom Brady” and the multipart “John Mulaney Presents: Everyone’s in L.A.” Additionally they signed a cope with World Wrestling Leisure to maneuver the WWE’s flagship weekly wrestling collection “Monday Evening Uncooked” to the streamer beginning subsequent 12 months.
Tyson — who was as soon as boxing’s youngest-ever heavyweight world champion — can be 58 when he faces off in opposition to Paul at AT&T Stadium this summer season.
The boxer’s lengthy saga out and in of the game has included heavyweight titles, jail time, a memoir, a widely known cameo in “The Hangover” and, maybe most infamously, biting off a small chunk of fellow boxer Evander Holyfield’s ear throughout a 1997 combat.
On Monday morning, Paul appeared to reply to Tyson’s medical incident and subsequent questions concerning the upcoming combat on the social platform X, writing that individuals make issues up “earlier than realizing the info for clicks / likes. Nothing modified #PaulTyson.”
Tyson, who is taken into account considered one of boxing’s all-time greats, has praised the brash Youtuber and former Disney Channel star up to now, saying final 12 months that Paul’s embrace of the game was serving to put our bodies in seats.
Like Tyson, the influencer-turned-fighter has additionally courted controversy up to now: He threw a large home occasion in the course of the summer season 2020 peak of the COVID-19 pandemic that sparked ire from Calabasas’ mayor, amongst different points.
