The Tyson Story

With Iron Mike heading to trial on drug charges, I figured that this would be as good a time as any to tell the story of a close encounter with Mike Tyson at a DC 7-11 a few days before Mike's final boxing match . This story is truly hilarious and basically explains why he lost his last fight. Since I was a dumbass and on my cell phone outside of the 7-11 during this whole episode (I kick myself everyday), I invited my former roomate in DC at the time to tell the first hand account from inside the 7-11. Enough with the intro, here is story from my roomate Brian.......




It's about 1:00 am on a Wednesday night and we are just getting back from the bars. While Marco is out on his cell talking to his girlfriend like a queer, I'm at the cash register of the 7-11 in Tenleytown buying a burrito with another one of our friends. While I'm paying, I see a tinted, white Hummer with huge rims pulling up, and out comes a black man wearing all black leather and black sunglasses and a guy about my height. After the massive black man walks buy me, I noticed a tattoo above and around the eye of the other guy, and immediately said "Hey! Mike Tyson" to which he said "Hey, Man" (in a voice that sounded like my little sister) shook my hand and hung out on the other side of the counter. That weekend, Tyson was in town to fight what was the second of six fights he had agreed to that were designed to get him out of debt.

Also in the store at the time was a woman who weighed maybe about eighty pounds, who was either a meth-head, a whore, or both. I don't remember if she knew who he was or not, but she began to hit on him, saying that she wanted to "know him." Mike answered "nah baby, you don't wanna know me baby, I'm fucking nuts, you don't wanna know me baby." Throughout this, Mike was slurring his words, and his big black friend was stocking up on nachos and hot-dogs. Given that he was in the 7-11 in Tenleytown with the munchies a few days before a heavyweight fight, its not all that shocking that he quit in the fifth round and hasn't boxed since.


So yeah, not only am I dumbass for not betting every single dollar that I owned at the time (not much) on that Irish guy Mike fought, but I'm also a dumbass for drunk dialing when I could have witnessed Iron Mike tell a women he's fucking nuts. Live and learn.