“He’s Killed People. He’s Done Bad Stuff”: 56-Year-Old Mike Tyson Still Terrified of This “Preacher”

Mike Tyson is often referred to as the ‘Baddest Man on the Planet’. His decades-long career in boxing depicts aggression, meanness, and the will to dominate in order to survive. But the ferocity of Tyson actually overwhelmed the sport.

For a long time, men have dominated the sport of boxing. As a result, in every essence, boxing breathed masculinity, and so there was the urge to claim the title of one “bad” or “the baddest man alive.”

For a man to be fearsome is to enjoy a privilege to the detriment of another. And Mike Tyson, throughout his career, deliberately expressed this desire to be mean and feared by people.

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Frantz Fanon, in The Wretched of the Earth, wrote, “we are for ever pursued by our actions.” Simply put, what it implies is that it is fear that chases a man who dares to be the most feared of all. Here is ‘the fear of the person’ that chases Mike Tyson, the feared, even in his fifties.

Still a little eerie of him: Mike Tyson speaks of his father

In a recently unearthed video, Mike Tyson gave a detailed description of his father. According to Tyson, he is still terrified of him. Here is what the former heavyweight champion of the world told:

“No, it’s just my father is a real serious guy. I wouldn’t ever wanna have a complication with him. Even as the champion of the world, I have people above. I just got crew. I’m still a little eerie of him. He was just that kind of guy. He’s killed people, he’s done bad stuff.”

“He was an interesting guy. He is a preacher. He’s always in church, he was born in church; he was raised in church. Preacher deacon preacher. Mean motha***”, he added.

In conclusion, Tyson is to this day afraid of the character of his long-gone father.

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Do you think Tyson’s trauma caused by his father has anything to do with his performances inside the ring? What do you make of Tyson’s description of his father? In addition, what do you think about Tyson and fear? Let us know in the comments below.