Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson had a medical emergency Sunday on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles, his representatives said Monday.
Tyson “experienced nausea and dizziness due to an ulcer flare-up 30 minutes before landing,” his representative said in a statement to the Times. “He thanks the medical staff who were there to help him.”
Tyson is now “doing very well,” according to the representative.
Tyson, 57, has been preparing to fight YouTube influencer Jake Paul, 27, on July 20 in Arlington, Texas. Tyson reigned as world champion from 1987 to 1990, but retired from professional boxing in 2005, when Paul was a child.
The fight will be televised live on Netflix; The streaming giant has expanded its push into live entertainment in recent months with “The Roast of Tom Brady” and the series “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in LA.” They also signed a deal with World Wrestling Entertainment to move WWE's flagship weekly wrestling series. “Monday Night Raw” to the streamer starting next year.
Tyson, who was once the youngest world heavyweight champion in boxing history, will be 58 years old when he faces Paul at AT&T Stadium this summer.
The boxer's long saga in and out of the sport has included heavyweight titles, prison time, a memoir, a well-known cameo in “The Hangover” and, perhaps most infamously, ripping off a small piece of his fellow boxer's ear. Evander Holyfield during a fight. 1997 fight.
On Monday morning, Paul appeared to respond to Tyson's medical incident and subsequent questions about the upcoming fight on social platform X, writing that people make things up “before they know the facts of clicks/likes.” Nothing changed #PaulTyson.”
Tyson, considered one of boxing's all-time greats, has praised the daring YouTuber and former Disney Channel star in the past, saying last year that Paul's embrace of the sport was helping put bodies in seats. .
Like Tyson, the influencer-turned-wrestler has also courted controversy in the past, hosting a massive house party during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in the summer of 2020 that drew the ire of the mayor of Calabasas, among others. issues.
