Mike Tyson on foes: 'The more you hurt him, the more people will love you'
Mike Tyson had no mercy for his opponents.
That mindset wasn’t the product of ill will. The former heavyweight champion simply learned during his heyday that the more punishment he dished out, the farther he got in his career and life.
He was speaking about his foes when he admitted in an interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that he wanted to “kill them.”
“The more you hurt them, the higher you go in life,” Tyson said. “That’s just my mentality. The more you hurt him, the more people will love you.”
Tyson also said that the poverty of his upbringing in a Brooklyn, New York, played a role in his attitude.
He was speaking about his mentality when he said, “Just think about who I am. I don’t want to go back there no more. … I don’t want to be in that poverty state of mind anymore and not from a physical perspective. I don’t be poverty struck in here.”
Tyson, 56, is a former two-time world champion. He returned to the ring in November 2020, when he faced Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition.