Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has revealed a few striking things about his relationship with fans in his new book, including a claim that he once fought with autograph-hungry fans.
According to the Guardian, Tyson disclosed that on more than one occasion if he encountered any obsessive fans who followed him around or asked for an autograph when he was in a bad mood he would 'kick their ass'.
He expressed regret for doing so, referring to himself at this time as a 'disrespectful ignorant monster', the report said.
Tyson also revealed that once only an audience stopped him from going too far in a street fight, the report added.
He said that boxer Mitch Green confronted him in a Harlem street in 1988, two years after their fight at Madison Square Gardens, claiming Tyson's promoter Don King owed him money, the report further said.
The result was a brutal street fight, which ended up with one of Green's eyes being completely closed in the brawl following a punch by Tyson, according to the report.
In the book he says that the fact a crowd had gathered around the two of them stopped him from hurting Green further, the report mentioned.
