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“I did that video and I was in bed for a week. That was 30 seconds and I was in bed for a week.”
Mike Tyson made the rounds earlier this year when the heavyweight legend announced that he would be making a comeback to the boxing ring.
‘Iron Mike’ uploaded training footage of a workout session with MMA and boxing coach Rafael Cordeiro in a video that went viral with over 6.2 million views.
Tyson, who turned 54 in June, looked absolutely ferocious hitting the pads but the former world heavyweight boxing champion revealed in a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that he was ‘in bed for a week’ after that training session.
“Getting in shape and getting conditioned are two different animals,” Tyson told Rogan (h/t Derek Hall of Middle Easy). “They don’t even belong in the same division of working out. Getting in shape is getting able to fit in your clothes. Being in condition is being able to come outside of your soul. You can’t do that automatically. The emotional state to prepare for that is mind boggling.
“Let me tell you something about (the first training video). I did that video and I was in bed for a week. That was 30 seconds and I was in bed for a week. That was not funny because it made me realize that this is big boy s–t.”
Tyson will return to the ring against Roy Jones Jr. but revealed that he was initially offered a fight against PRIDE and kickboxing legend Bob Sapp.
“I was discussing with my wife something about me being overweight,” Tyson said. “And she said ‘Why don’t you just get on the treadmill for 15 minutes a day?’ but then it went from 15 minutes a day, to two hours a day.
“I just started losing weight, and my brother-in-law said ‘Hey Mike, I know you’re not going to want it but someone asked if you would fight this guy for 30 or 40 million bucks.’ I said ‘Get the fu…woah. Hold on. Who would they like me to fight?’ and (he said) it was Bob Sapp. I’m saying to myself ‘I know Bob, I know he’s big and strong.’ So I asked how they wanted me to fight him, if it would be Queensbury rules. He asked the guy, the guy said yes, and I said I would fight him.”
Tyson will fight Roy Jones Jr. in an exhibition bout on Nov. 28th.