Mike Tyson: "When I saw them it made me crazy as hell"

Mike Tyson: "When I saw them it made me crazy as hell"

Brad Pitt was in bed with Robin Givens, still Mike Tyson's wife, when he walked into the room and saw them. I went crazy as hell. You should have seen the guy's face when he saw me?, recalled the ex-boxer.


Mike Tyson's surprise confession

Arguably, Mike Tyson did them all, in and out of the ring. But his ex-wife did not deprive herself of anything either. What's more, she gave herself a few treats... and some scares too.

Those who were close to the big black say that it is likely that in none of his fights did Mike Tyson get as enraged as he did at his ex-wife's house in the late 1980s. On that occasion, the former world boxing champion, who still having intimate encounters with actress Robin Givens while they were going through divorce proceedings, he found her having sex with Brad Pitt.

Tyson and Givens had been married in 1988, but after just three months the woman filed for divorce alleging abuse by her partner

However, in the middle of the separation process, Tyson continued to visit Givens. "At that time I used to go by her house looking for sex and then I would go to my lawyer's to tell her that she was stealing my money," Tyson explained on an American radio show with Graham Bensinger.

That night, Tyson came home and realized that “someone had beaten me, that someone had gotten there first. “I saw them, I went crazy as hell. You should have seen his face when he saw me,” said the 46-year-old former boxer.

violence and money

The couple got married in 1988 and it lasted a very short time. During those three months, the relationship was marked by violence and fortune, since the former boxer had about 50 million dollars at that time.

When Givens filed for divorce, he claimed there was spousal abuse, managing to keep about $10 million.

Tayson won the world heavyweight title twice in the 1980s and is the youngest boxer in history to win a world heavyweight title when he won the WBC title against Trevor on November 22, 1986. Berbick, only 20 years old.



In 1992 Tyson was jailed for the rape of Desiree Washington, an 18-year-old girl, and sentenced to 10 years. He was released in March 1995, after serving three years in prison, he returned to the ring that same year and won the world title, but lost it to Evander Holyfield. In 1997, in the rematch against Holyfield, he was disqualified for biting off Evander's right ear. At the age of 35 he returned to fight for the world title against Lennox Lewis but was defeated. He then withdrew.