Boxing legend Mike Tyson had a year added to his prison sentence after fighting several of the guards in his facility.
Tyson, 56, went to prison in 1992 after being convicted of raping Desiree Washington. 'Iron Mike' was sentenced to six years in Plainfield Correctional Facility and four years of probation, but was released in 1995 after serving less than three years of his sentence. After being released from prison, Tyson won his next four fights and reclaimed the heavyweight championship.
The heavyweight icon admitted that when he first entered prison, his anger got him into trouble that resulted in a year being added to his sentence. "I got an extra year. When I first came there, I was mad at everybody, I didn't know they all wanted to show me love, so I'm fighting the guards and stuff but then the guards were telling me how to move. So, now I'm the man, I am getting food, got women, I am the man in prison," he said on a recent episode of his Hotboxin' podcast.
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"But then the guard that was working for me goes like, 'Listen champ, remember when you first came here? You had those problems, we had to give you a year'. I said 'oh f****ng s*** how could they do this s***?' I gave them my money and they gave me [another] year? So I had to go on programmes that I could never pass, spelling and stuff."
Tyson recently worried fans when he was spotted using a wheelchair whilst passing through Miami Airport, just weeks after he required a walking stick whilst in New York. The two instances came after Tyson made concerning comments about his life expectancy during one of his podcast episodes. Tyson played down concerns about his health and stated needed assistance for his sciatica, which is a chronic back condition
'Iron Mike' has previously stated he had the best time of his life in prison, telling The Pivot : “I’m a cool guy, I’m a good person, I treated everybody nice inside. I had the best three years of my life in prison. “I was doing running. Doing eight or nine miles around and at night time I would run for four hours, just in my room. I would jump and stuff, just jumping up. My cell has a concrete floor, right? I indented it with my feet into the concrete floor. I was 285lbs. I came out 215lbs."
