Repeatedly throughout his fight with Jake Paul on Friday night, Mike Tyson kept biting his own gloves, which isn’t something you see every day in a boxing match.
On the Netflix streaming broadcast, ringside commentators Mauro Ranallo, Roy Jones Jr. and Rosie Perez couldn’t stop talking about it. Specifically, Jones couldn’t stop pointing out every time Tyson did it and wondered if he had a mouthpiece issue, to which Ranallo assured Jones that biting his own gloves has been a tick throughout Tyson’s career.
So really, what was the deal with Tyson biting his own gloves? He answered when asked by Ariel Helwani after the fight ended.
“I have a habit of biting my gloves in my fights, yeah,” Tyson said. “I have a biting fixation.”
Who could ever forget when Tyson infamously bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield’s ear during their rematch on June 28, 1997?
A biting fixation? Mike Tyson? You don’t say.
Tyson lasted eight, 2-minute rounds with Paul at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium, with the lackluster fight ending in an easy unanimous decision win for Paul.
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