Mike Tyson showed off his incredible physique as he took part in a mock street brawl with Shannon Briggs ahead of his fight with Jake Paul later this year.
Tyson last fought Roy Jones Jr. in 2020 and will once again come out of retirement to face Paul, who is 30 years his junior.
The boxing icon has already hit back at his critics, suggesting they are “jealous” amid the intense scrutiny surrounding the pair.
But if the footage shot in Brooklyn is anything to go by, it looks like Tyson wants to go.
The 57-year-old shared a video on Instagram of himself and Briggs having a mock fight in the street.
Iron Mike headed to his childhood hometown of Brownsville in Brooklyn, where he went shirtless while joking with Briggs in the street.
People nearby were seen filming the two on their cellphones.
And fans on social media chimed in on the exchange, with one user writing: “Imagine just hanging out in New York and Mike Tyson and Cannon Briggs start mixing it up. ” he said.
A second person said: “I love Mike Tyson.
A third person reacted: “When Mike looks in the mirror he doesn't see it because there's only one Iron Mike.”
A fourth person quipped: “Next time please let me join in too.”
“Proud to live in the era of Iron Mike Tyson,” said another fan.
A sixth said: “Hearing this puts a smile on my face. I don't know Iron Mike but it's always fun to see him in good spirits.”
And a seventh person responded: “Mike Tyson is a man of the people. He embodies Brooklyn!!!!”
Before turning professional, Tyson had about 150 street fights as a young man in Brooklyn.
And a few years ago, Iron Mike said that when he was a kid, fighting was “all we did.”
“I'm talking about fights that don't count,” he said on the Hot Boxing Podcast, talking about his early days.
“There are some amateurs who have fought 300 or 400 times. Parnell.” [Whitaker] We fought a lot.
“There were 60 pieces. [amateur fights]. He had about 150 street fights, so maybe he didn't do too badly in boxing.
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“What we did in Brooklyn was just fight. Fight, fight, fight.
“It was, 'You did this, you did that, I didn't do that,' fight, fight.”
Meanwhile, Paul insists he wants to fight in MMA once his fight with Tyson is over.
“When I say I want to fight these guys in MMA, I mean it very seriously,” he said earlier this week.
“We're offering $10 million.”
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He added: “They're all hiding behind these crazy things.
“None of them ever got up to the table and talked about any business to actually make anything happen, in a real match or a real spar, whatever it was.”
