Former heavyweight boxing champion, Mike Tyson at age 53, is grooming up himself trying to stay fit as he prides in his pounding punches.
In a video released earlier this month, Tyson shows his retaining speed and power he had grown even more than 30 years ago when he won as the youngest-ever heavyweight champion.
“He hasn’t hit mitts for almost 10 years. So I didn’t expect to see what I saw. I saw a guy with the same speed, same power as guys 21, 22 years old,” his trainer Rafael Cordeiro told ESPN.
Meanwhile, according to Bleacher Report, the boxing promotion group, Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship is impressed with Tyson’s physical fitness, and he has been offered $20 million to come out of retirement for bout.
The organization made the offer earlier this month, but is now reportedly prepared to spice up the deal with more money and charitable donations, Bleacher Report said. It is yet to be sure if Tyson will embrace the offer.
Tyson’s last professional fight was in a bout match he lost to the Irish Fighter Kevin McBride in 2005, after a successful boxing career that pitched him as a legendary boxer with the likes of Muhammad Ali, and others.
But, with series of setbacks spanning through drug problems, bankruptcy, child loss, six years imprisonment for sexual assault, he had since brace himself to move on with his television appearances, and fortunately, with his successful podcast that hit him back to publicity.
Tyson has already thrown light on his plans for an upcoming fight, but not explicit on the match description. But he told rapper Lil Wayne on his Young Money Radio show that plans are ongoing. “We got many guys. Listen, we got so many guys that want to do this,” he said. “We’re in calls—we’re doing business with guys you ain’t even going to believe the names when the names come out.”
