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“You Have to Chill Down”: Mike Tyson Calls His Wife ‘Frustrated Talk Host’

Published 07/22/2022, 10:00 AM EDT

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Mike Tyson has been with a lot of women in his life. The legendary boxer was famous for dating multiple women during his early days and has also been married three times.

However, Tyson is now a settled man and is happily married to Lakhia Spicer. But according to the legendary boxer, she can be a little too affectionate towards people, as he stated recently.

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Mike Tyson tells his wife to ‘chill down’ and calls her a ‘frustrated talk host’

In an episode of his podcast Hotboxin’ with his therapist, Sean McFarland, Tyson praised his wife calling her “awesome” and “extremely selfless” and also shared a story about the time when he and his wife attended a master’s class.

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“She’s extremely selfless right and sometimes I say hey listen how many times she meets somebody like I found this show for master class so the lady that owned the house that we lived in. As soon as my wife sees it, she wants to hug her and kiss her and talk about life and how my children are doing”.

Moreover, he then went on to add that she could get a little too friendly at times and that deep down she wanted to be a talk show host who wanted to connect with people.” I said God damn you can’t be the host too, you have to chill down and say hi to people, but she always wanna, I think really deep down she’s a frustrated talk host“, Tyson added.

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Tyson loves his wife very much and feels like she is a generous person who wants to help people. However, Tyson thinks she could also come out as too generous sometimes, which is seemingly interfering with Iron Mike’s profession.

Who is Kiki Tyson?

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Lakhia Spicer, better known as Kiki Tyson, is Mike Tyson’s third wife. The couple has been married since 2009 and also has two children together. She is a socialite and businesswoman who became famous after marrying The Baddest Man On The Planet. The pair first met after her father took her to a boxing match featuring Tyson when she was just 18 years old, as he was friends with Tyson’s promoter.

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By the time she was 23 years old, the couple was already dating and in 2003 they went public about their relationship after Tyson divorced his 2nd wife. The couple then got married after she gave birth to their son, Milan Tyson.

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Sahil Sood is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in journalism and mass communication, and holds a keen interest in the 'sweet science'. His journey towards following boxing began when he first saw the highlights of Mike Tyson as a teenager, and then closely followed the rise of Floyd Mayweather.
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