According to the Brooklyn native, having cash in the bank doesn’t buy immortality. Photo: Handout
Punch-out king Mike Tyson thinks he’s nearly gone the distance.
Speaking candidly on his Hotboxin’ With Mike Tyson podcast, the former heavyweight champ said he doesn’t have long to live.
“When I look in the mirror, I see those little spots on my face, I say, ‘Wow,’” Tyson said. “That’s my expiration date coming close, really soon.”
The 56-year-old retired pugilist said on the podcast, which posted last week, that money having no substantive value to him because it doesn’t provide the kind of security he finds important.
“What is security?” Tyson asked. “I don’t know.”
Celebrity Net Worth rates Tyson’s worth at US$10mil (RM44mil). But according to the Brooklyn native, having cash in the bank doesn’t buy immortality.
“That means you’re not going to catch a disease? You cant get hit be a car?” he asked. “You can't jump off a bridge?”
Despite his pontifications about security, Tyson said that he doesn’t think about death. According to Tyson, his religious beliefs give him hope.
“It all comes down to getting on your (expletive) knees,” he said.
Once boxing’s most feared fighter, “Iron Mike” retired with 50 wins in 58 fights, which included 44 knockouts.
In 2009, his four-year-old daughter Exodus died after being found with the cord from a nearby exercise machine wrapped around her throat.
Tyson later told ESPN that made him want to get his gun and “go crazy”.
But when he went to see her at the hospital, and saw other people clinging to life, Tyson said he though “Who the hell am I, thinking of dying too?” – New York Daily News/Tribune News Service
