I began to exact some revenge for the beatings I had taken from bullies. I’d be walking with some friends, and I might see one of the guys who beat me up and bullied me years earlier. He might have gone into a store shopping, and I would drag his ass out of the store and start pummeling him. I didn’t even tell my friends why, I’d just say, “I hate that motherfucker over there,” and they’d jump in too and rip his fucking clothes and beat his fucking ass. That guy who took my glasses and threw them away? I beat him in the streets like a fucking dog for humiliating me. He may have forgotten about it, but I never did.
On March 7, 2024, it was announced that Netflix and Most Valuable Promotions had partnered to host an event headlined by Paul facing former undisputed heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson on July 20 at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The event will be streamed globally exclusively on Netflix.
From immense raw power to a contentious history with his coach. He has a lot of history. However, his tattoo is his USP, which a fan would recognize even from afar. The question arises, what other tattoos does he have?
Tyson has six biological children, who range in age from newborn to 20, born of three different women. A seventh child, a daughter named Exodus, died at age 4 in May 2009 at her mother’s home in Phoenix; she was strangled when her neck was caught in a cord hanging from a treadmill. Tyson caught a plane immediately upon receiving a call from Sol Xochitl, Exodus’s mother, about the accident, but by the time he arrived at the hospital, the little girl was already brain-dead. The loss of his daughter critically altered his once-tentative grasp on his own accountability. To this day, he blames himself for not being there. “It made me feel very irresponsible,” he says simply. “I wish she were here to hang out with Milan.” The effects of the tragedy reverberated throughout Tyson’s extended family: “The kids were very close to Exodus, and when she died we were all devastated,” says Monica Turner, his second wife. “I think that changed Mike forever.” Tyson refers to Exodus repeatedly during our conversations with evident sadness and insists on keeping her memory alive by counting her among his living children.
He then shares a screenshot of Lava sharing a Snapchat sent to him by Tyson that reads “cumming for America,” with Lava calling the Snap “weird” (shown below, left). Prism42 claims Lava would have been around 15 at the time this was sent. Prism shares a screenshot Lava sent to the Discord server showing that he was on a call with Tyson. He then shared several photographs of Tyson and Jacobs standing with Lava, which were posted to Instagram (shown below, right, Lava’s face censored).
“Yeah, man, we almost got him, we almost got him,” they laughed. I had no idea what they were talking about and then they told me. They were boxing Mr. Stewart, one of the counselors. Bobby Stewart was a tough Irish guy, around 170 pounds, who had been a professional boxer. I was in my room one night when there was a loud, intimidating knock on the door. I opened the door and it was Mr. Stewart.
In August 2005, Etienne robbed a local business, tried to hijack two cars (one containing a woman and her child), then pulled a gun on police officers. He reportedly tried to fire the weapon only for it to jam. After being convicted of armed robbery, kidnapping and the attempted murder of a police officer, Etienne was sentenced to 160 years in prison (later reduced to 105 years due to a technicality).
By placing the tattoo on his face, Tyson was challenging societal norms and expectations of how a public figure should look. In many cultures, tattoos are still associated with criminality, deviance, or rebellion, and they are often stigmatized. For a professional athlete like Tyson, who was already known for his brash personality and confrontational style, getting a facial tattoo could have been perceived as a risky move that might hurt his image or career prospects.
Despite its popularity, the Mike Tyson tattoo has also been the subject of legal disputes and controversies. One prominent example is the lawsuit filed by tattoo artist Victor Whitmill over the use of the design in the movie The Hangover Part II.
Tyson resides in Seven Hills, Nevada. He has been married three times, and has seven children, one deceased, with three women; in addition to his biological children, box Tyson includes his second wife’s oldest daughter as one of his own.
We sat down, and Cus told me he couldn’t believe I was only 13 years old. And then he told me what my future would be. “If you listen to me, I can make you the youngest heavyweight champion of all time.”
The accusations were first made by Prism42, a YouTuber who uploaded a 43-minute-long video on the inappropriate communications in June. Prism had reportedly contacted the alleged victim under the guise of hiring him for a video editing job, and gathered “evidence” against Tyson during their interactions.