I have had the pleasure of meeting Mike Tyson, and having a few brief conversations with him. He was a customer at an electronics store that I worked for in Tempe. He is a friendly guy. I handled some sales for him. Some of the other employees were intimidated by him. I think just because of the celebrity thing.

The guy pretty much harassed Tyson until Tyson could stand it no more.

I hope the guy gets nothing in the inevitable attempt to make some money off this incident.

As to if the guy was drunk or stupid, I'll go solidly with both.

Big Mike looked like he was working a speed bag!

Additional info from NYP;

New details have emerged about a recent altercation between Mike Tyson and another passenger on his JetBlue flight.

Melvin Townsend III, the 36-year-old man who Tyson punched on the plane, has a long criminal record, per TMZ.

Townsend has been convicted of fraud, grand theft, burglary, possession of controlled substances and trafficking in stolen property.
In 2018, Townsend had a run-in with the cops when he broke into someone’s property and stole their trailer, hitching it to the back of his pickup truck. In a separate incident, Townsend was found to be in possession of oxycodone.

Townsend served two stints in prison: Once for 20 months and another for 15 months.

Captured on video, Tyson punched Townsend in the head numerous times after he repeatedly harassed the former heavyweight champion. Townsend was sitting behind Tyson on their flight from San Francisco to Miami on Wednesday. In the clip, Townsend can be heard repeatedly saying Tyson’s name in an attempt to get his attention.

Tyson, 55, alleges that the incident got violent when Townsend threw a water bottle at the boxer-turned-cannabis entrepreneur.

Eventually, Tyson hit his breaking point and repeatedly punched Townsend, leaving him bruised and bloody. Both men were escorted off the plane and were greeted by law enforcement.
Townsend and Tyson were released when the former said that he would not be pressing charges. Tyson eventually made it to Miami to attend a lavish marijuana conference and was all smiles later that day when photographed smoking.

JetBlue has not released a statement about the incident

LINK: https://nypost.com/2022/04/22/...ng-criminal-history/

I've watched two lengthy interviews of Tyson with Joe Rogan, total six hours. He is a genuinely nice guy, much smarter than some might think, with a great sense of humour.

He also had the most devastating left hook in boxing history. He just cuffed this asshole around a bit. If he had really hit him, it would have been lights out. Forever. And several passengers sitting near the asshole would have needed an eight count.

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Originally posted by parabellum:

Mike Tyson throws punches at unruly passenger on JetBlue flight

Legendary boxer Mike Tyson was reportedly involved in a scuffle with an airline passenger on Wednesday night that left the passenger bloodied.

LOL! You don't say. That's very close to a "water is wet" statement.

Aside from the punching, is anybody else amazed that Mike Tyson flies Jet Blue??? Bully for him, having more money than god and still flying commercial. Not even in first class, it seems?

Some times the attention that you so desperately seek...
Is not the attention that you receive.

I’m not the kind of guy to goad somebody into doing something for a payout, nor scam anybody, nor generally pick a fight. All that said IF I was that kind of person I would still follow a set of “personal rules of conduct” so to speak.

Rule number one. DON’T PICK A FIGHT WITH MIKE FRIGGIN TYSON!!!! I mean Jesus I guess some folks need to get kicked in the head by the horse but damn mistakes were made here.

I can just picture me being Mike Tyson and all confused and saying. “Hey buddy, you want to take a moment to google me? It’s Tyson with a Y, I’ll wait.”

As was said if Mike wanted to HURT him he would have straight up murdered him. He just gave him a little kinetic memory reboot.

Way to go Mike!

These new age pussies have learned about not being held accountable and going to court and getting away with whatever they want, even when it's wrong. But a guy like Mike Tyson appears to not care, trump all that, and smash his face.

Love it. Mike was obviously helping him by teaching him a lesson about manners, as his head is still attached.

Someone take this dipshit to the open air Lion exhibit at the zoo.

I see that Tyson didn't get charged for this, which is good. He could have knocked that stupid asshole's head off if he wanted to.
https://www.fox23.com/news/tre...VKVA2NHZKFGHGLTS7IA/