Former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has spoken out about his penchant for human flesh and how he believes it will eventually result in his death.
"Iron Mike", 47, told iconic boxing magazine The Ring that he'd been eating people for over 30 years, beginning as a teenage hoodlum growing up in Brownsville. New York. A notoriously tough district where petty crime, delinquency and dining on human flesh was rife.
"We were dirt poor back in those days," Tyson said. "My mom had to take in ironing and go scrub the floors of white folks just to pay the rent. We ate what we could steal from grocery stores and when we couldn't do that, my mom would send me and my brothers out to kill somebody on the other side of town and bring them home for the pot. It might sound kinda bad I guess but to us it was natural as breathing."
"Sometimes I got so hungry I even bit my tongue as a snack," he lisped. "Pickings would be pretty slim and we'd have to make do with some skinny ass hobo we'd killed at the train yard, but other times we'd find ourselves some big fat white dude and it would keep the family supplied with good eating for weeks."
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Tyson then went on to explain the notorious ear biting incident during his world title clash with Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Arena in 1997, when Iron Mike was disqualified in round 3 for biting off part of Holyfield's ear during a clinch.
"I guess I was a little outta line that night." he said. "But I hadn't eaten since 4.00pm and just took a little nibble out of Evander's ear. A bit salty but quite tasty. I aint a bad guy at heart and I apologised to Evander and his corner, I even gave him the gristle back. Hell, it ain't like I started chowing down on one his legs for Chrissakes!"
When asked about his claims that his bizarre appetite would eventually kill him, Tyson said "Are you crazy? Once this story gets published the cops will be hauling my ass to jail, and the last time I looked, the penalty for killing and eating another guy was death by electrocution. I'm gonna be history man!
Tyson, now a celebrity chef, went on "I just hope all the people I've parboiled can forgive me. I want to live a different life now. I haven't eaten a parson's nose or chomped on prime booty with an arsegravy jus in six days, and for me that's a miracle."
Nom nom! Tyson (left) v Holyfield - Image by Pinxit
