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“An Icon Was Being Super Harrassed”- UFC World Including Dana White and Israel Adesanya React to the Viral Mike Tyson Encounter

Published 04/22/2022, 6:03 AM EDT

The recent Mike Tyson video has the whole combat sports world reacting to it. The video shows Tyson getting involved with a man in a discomforting situation on the plane. However, it appears the former heavyweight boxer got constantly poked, which perhaps led to him doing what he did.

The UFC fighters and other commodities also gave their opinion on ‘Iron Mike‘s video.

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UFC fighters came in support of Mike Tyson

The legendary heavyweight boxer is a beloved personality in the UFC space. Tyson is an inspiration for many fighters. Also, even the UFC fighters themselves face fans, making a moment uncomfortable.

Thus, considering all of that, the UFC personalities backed Mike Tyson.

Hey dummies, for future reference, this is how you stay alive when bumping into @MikeTyson on an airplane. pic.twitter.com/gJFoKOtmkO
— danawhite (@danawhite) April 21, 2022

UFC President Dana White, who had an incident with Mike Tyson in a similar setting, advised everyone and suggested, “Hey dummies, for future reference, this is how you stay alive when bumping into @MikeTyson on an airplane.”

If y’all see a fighter out and about don’t taunt them or annoy them. All you’re doin is clout chasing for social media or tryna get a lawsuit going. Leave them alone unless it’s all positive. Let them live #miketyson
— Terrance ‘T Wrecks’ McKinney (@twrecks155) April 21, 2022

UFC lightweight prospect Terrance McKinney suggested everyone should give fighters their personal space.

Gotta love how flight attendants can pay enough attention to tell you to lift your mask every 2 seconds and shake people awake because of it, but they can't notice a guy harassing Mike Tyson for 15 minutes and kick him off the plane.
— Garry Tonon (@Garry_Tonon) April 21, 2022

MMA fighter and jiujitsu legend, Garry Tonon, put the staff on the plane under the bus.

“Gotta love how flight attendants can pay enough attention to tell you to lift your mask every 2 seconds and shake people awake because of it, but they can’t notice a guy harassing Mike Tyson for 15 minutes and kick him off the plane.” – Tweeted Tonon.

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Even Israel Adesanya reacted with a picture of him and Tyson and said, “Thank you.”

Thank you. pic.twitter.com/OTxAt2yWIa
— Israel Adesanya (@stylebender) April 22, 2022

Apart from these MMA fighters, many famous personalities reacted to the video and had positive words for Tyson. It includes popular entities such as Jake Paul, Ryan Garcia, Claressa Shields, and more.

If you’re being heckled in public like Mike Tyson was you should legally get a hall pass to beat someone’s ass.
This generation thinks they can get away with anything.
— Jake Paul (@jakepaul) April 21, 2022

Mike Tyson who is a legend and An Icon was being super harassed on a plane and no one told that man to relax and leave Mike alone, obviously It not cool to punch someone but really someone should have stepped in for Mike. LOVE YOU MIKE!
— RYAN GARCIA (@RyanGarcia) April 22, 2022

Mike Tyson has been filmed repeatedly punching a man in the face on a plane after being provoked. He posted this on Facebook back in 2020… pic.twitter.com/Or9iRKCCay
— Michael Benson (@MichaelBensonn) April 21, 2022

Mike Tyson handled an unruly passenger on a plane the way every unruly passenger should be handled on a plane.
— Jim Norton (@JimNorton) April 21, 2022

Everyone supports Mike Tyson. Let that guy who baited him sue. No jury awards anything. What a pathetic lowlife.
— Cernovich (@Cernovich) April 22, 2022

Mike Tyson punched dude up on the plane…. Not gonna lie that shit was satisfying to see. People think trolling celebrities is cool, it ain’t. Internet got people to comfortable disrespecting folks & not getting hit in the mouth for it 🤷🏽‍♀️
— Claressa Gwoat Shields (@Claressashields) April 22, 2022

Mike Tyson’s spokesperson issues a statement

A spokesperson of Mike Tyson gave a statement, per reports from ESPN, following the incident.

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“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.”

Also, per ESPN, an official officer provided an update about the guy Tyson supposedly punched. The official officer said, “That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,”

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What do you think of the UFC community backing Mike Tyson? Share your thought in the comments.

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Deepak Kumar is a UFC author at EssentiallySports. His love for MMA comes from the chaos and violence the fight game brings to the table. A BJJ aspirant, Deepak began following the sport as a casual fan when Ronda Rousey was finishing her opponents in seconds.

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“An Icon Was Being Super Harrassed”- UFC World Including Dana White and Israel Adesanya React to the Viral Mike Tyson Encounter

UFC fighters came in support of Mike Tyson

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