Mike Tyson doesn’t care about his legacy.
That much is clear after a bizarre interview with the former heavyweight boxing champion went viral ahead of his highly anticipated fight with Jake Paul on Saturday (AEDT).
Nineteen years after his last fight, Tyson will climb back into the ring in a Netflix-backed bout against Paul at AT&T Stadium, the home of the Dallas Cowboys, in Arlington, Texas.
It is an officially sanctioned fight and will feature eight two-minute rounds.
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Tyson’s legacy is secured as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers the world has ever seen, but the world may not be sure how to react if he loses to a Gen Z celebrity three decades younger than him.
The 58-year-old spoke to American content creator Jazzy (@iamjazzysworldtv), a 13-year-old with more than a million followers on Instagram and Tiktok.
One snippet of their chat, which you can 스포츠토토사이트 watch below, has gone viral after Tyson gave a deep and maybe far too meaningful answer to a question from Jazzy.
Jazzy began: “In your return to the ring for this fight, you are setting a monumental opportunity for kids my age to see the legend Mike Tyson in the ring for the first time.
“After such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind when it’s all said and done?”
Tyson replied: “I don’t know, I don’t believe in the word legacy.
“I just think that’s another word for ego. Legacy doesn’t mean nothing. That’s just some word everybody grabbed onto. Someone said that word and now it’s used every five seconds.
“It means absolutely nothing to me. I’m just passing through. I’m going to die and it’s going to be over. Who cares about legacy after that. (People think) ‘I’ve got a big ego so when I die I want people to think I’m this, I’m great’.
“(No that means) nothing, we’re just dead, we’re dust, we’re absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing.”
Jazzy seemed momentarily lost for words, before replying: “Well thank you so much for sharing, that is something I have not heard before, someone say that as an answer.”
But Tyson kept going, saying: “Can you really imagine someone saying, ‘I want my legacy to be this’ You’re dead! Do I really want to think about you?
“Who the f*** cares about me when I’m gone? My kids maybe, or my grandkids. Who cares.”