One of the reasons the former heavyweight champion didn't struggle in jail was because he became close to a woman while inside. I had some good days in there," he admitted. Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, a contestant in the Miss Black America pageant in Indianapolis, and jailed for three years. The former heavyweight boxer has turned his hand to movies of late, appearing in The Hangover franchise. He hopes to line up more roles in the future, revealing TV is a medium he would love to move into.
"Sex addiction" stopped Mike Tyson from being the best boxer ever
"Sex addiction" stopped Mike Tyson from being the best boxer ever - Mirror Online
Mike Tyson was the most feared boxer on the planet, a wild animal who literally tore chunks out of his opponents. Instead, Tyson ended up a convicted rapist. Every decision he made was around women and sex. Tyson was the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion in history at 20 in
12 Things We Really Wish We Didn't Know About Mike Tyson's Sex Life
In Mike Tyson's autobiography, Undisputed Truth , 'The Baddest Man on the Planet' revealed that during his time at the Indiana Youth Center in Indianapolis between and , he was having "so much sex that he was too tired to even go to the gym and work out. Basically, Mike Tyson was having so much sex back in the 90's, that he couldn't even train properly. Yes, o ne of the most infamous boxers of all time was sleeping with around 15 women every day before going to prison in , and he was still getting quite a lot of action during his time in jail. After they had sex, Tyson admitted that the pair continued to have a sexual affair while he was locked up. To add to this already incredible series of events, one of his bodyguards once revealed that Tyson had the names and sexual preferences of women on a file and even carried it around with him on a regular basis.
That all changed February 11, at the Tokyo Dome in Japan when a to-1 underdog knocked out the then Tyson. A year later, Tyson was convicted of rape and his aura of invincibility vanished. While he would again regain the world titles in , Iron Mike was never the same. In the lead-up to the fight, Tyson was so unthreatened by the Buster Douglas, that he barely trained. Indeed, he was 30 pounds overweight when he arrived in Tokyo.