*We’ve always found former heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson to be very interesting in that basically he’s a very candid person. Bottom line, if you ask him a question … any question, he’ll give you an answer. Whether it’s truthful or not is a different question, but for whatever reason, he’s very open.
We found this out again when he recently sat down with rapper/actor T.I. on his podcast, “ExpediTIously,” when, among other things, he declared that none of his current success would be possible without his wife, Lakiha Spicer.
The man who was once known as Iron Mike also admits, without being asked, that he’s gone two years without cheating on Mrs. Tyson. Plus, there’s the all-important fact that she helped pull him out of a financial slump:
“She swooped down on me, and told, ‘This is what we’re gonna do,’ and that’s what happened. That’s why I believe in what I believe in now. ‘Cause there’s no way this could be happening. There’s no way I could’ve been married to my wife. I’m not faithful enough. I’m just not that kind of guy. I don’t care about nothing enough more than my d*ck, so how am I gonna be faithful to somebody? But it worked! I got ten years with her. I got two years without every f***ing a b**** but my wife. For a n*gga like me, I had to have them everyday. I had to c** every second of the day! I’m the posterboy for sexual anonymous.”
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He’s the kinda guy that NEEDS to be wifed-up at all times ’cause he even went as far as to say he’d “kill himself” without one. By the way, Lakiha Spicer is his third:
“Without my wife, I’m a savage animal…I look at women differently as I get older. When I was younger, I viewed them as pleasure. Now that I’m older, I look at them as the half. It makes me realize that I’m a man. And at this stage in my life, they’re my teachers. If a man doesn’t have a little bit of fear of his wife, he’s not living his life right. That’s why I got married three times, ’cause I can’t live without a wife. If I don’t have a wife, I’ll kill myself. That’s real talk. I need somebody to listen to. I’m a soldier. I can’t think on my own. I need somebody to do it…I know myself.”
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At one point he even admitted – again, without being asked – that he believes his relationship history has influenced his children’s preferences when it comes to dating:
“You know what bothers me, too, man? And I gotta say this. Why my kids don’t like Black kids? They don’t date Black kids. Why is that?…sometimes I look at my daughter, and I see she’s attracted to white guys, and I think, ‘I didn’t set a good example as a Black man,’ then…they must have seen sometimes when I was vulnerable and said, ‘Hey, I don’t wanna be with no one like that. He’s scary.’”
As far as his legendary boxing career, Mike Tyson claims he has no beef with promoter Don King, but says he “steals too much:”
“Don King’s an interesting guy. I used to talk to Don, and Don is cool. I’m not not mad at Don anymore and stuff…I had a right to be mad. Don steals so f****in’ much- he can’t help it. I’m sorry, Don. Don’t get offended. But he knows I’m telling the truth. He just f****in’ steals- that f****in’ ‘ n*gga steals…”
He also flashed back with T.I. on having Tupac visit him in prison:
“[One of my favorite memories is] him coming to visit me in prison. And he’s talking and he’s so animated. And then, all of a sudden, he jumps on the table!…And I look at him and say, ‘Get down from there! Stop! Come down, now!’ So he gets down, and the guard was getting ready to come over, and I’m like, ‘What the f***!’…the guards didn’t like him. The prison didn’t really like him, ’cause when he came, the inmates got real rowdy and pumped up. That’s like a safety situation, so they really didn’t like him there…He was just an amazing guy. He was ahead of his time, and that’s why he’s not here with us no more.”
You can check out the FULL interview/ExpediTIously podcast HERE.
