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Gilbert Arenas, a former professional basketball player, recently spoke about the physical altercation of Mike Tyson with a fan in his recent interview. The former boxer is always making headlines for various reasons, and this is not the first time he has been in the news for hitting someone.

There are many times in Tyson’s life when his anger took control of the situation. Here is a brutally honest reality check on Tyson’s airplane skirmish with The “Excited Fan” by an NBA veteran in this interview.

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In this interview, DJ Vlad also mentioned a situation when he said something during an interview that sounded like Tyson getting irritated. During the interview, he spoke about having offended former boxing champions, and the fear that he felt can be seen clearly in his words.

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As to this, Gilbert discussed it and described some of the ways fans use to become viral. Recent allegations claim that Tyson hit a fellow passenger on a flight from San Francisco to Fort Lauderdale. 

Gilbert Arenas believes some fans do it to go viral while talking about Mike Tyson’s physical altercation

TMZ reports that Mike Tyson got into the fight after an “overly excited” fan behind him began speaking “in his ear.” As a response Tyson told him to “chill.”

The witnesses reported that he was cool at first, and he also took pictures with fans, but one of the fans got so excited that he started annoying him. Following that, he struck his face several times, resulting in bleeding on his forehead.

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Arenas’ opinion on this incident stated that this behavior was intended purely for viral purposes. According to him: “Somebody who’s trying to go viral who I mean who knows that’s why I said like stuff I look at it like he’s playing to the camera so it’s like did he tell his friend you’ll put the camera on.”

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Currently, a video on social media is going viral in which Mike Tyson is seen hitting a fan punch by punch. As Tyson is known as one of the most fearsome fighters of all time, it looks like it will be a long road to resolve things. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

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