Mike Tyson was considered to be one of the highest-earning and most popular boxers in the world when his career was at its peak. However, he suffered a surprising loss to Buster Douglas due to this reported behavior of his.
Tyson became the all-time youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20. He received prize money of $30 million for this major fight. His success also enabled him to enjoy a lavish and unbelievable lifestyle. He purchased extravagant assets including necklaces worth $7 million and 150-foot yachts.
The boxer accumulated incredible wealth and created a name for himself because of his illustrious career. At the same time, Tyson made many controversial decisions, as well as, behaved recklessly on various occasions.
He was notorious for being a womanizer and, reportedly, had several intimate relationships. It is unfortunate that the boxer is convinced that his relationship with many of these women led to his dismissal performances.
There was one such occasion when he made a major blunder by sleeping with all the maids of the hotel a day before his shocking loss to Buster Douglas in the heavyweight championship. Many feel his dismissal performance was due to his reckless behavior the previous day.
The boxer’s management team tried to make him focus on his match by keeping him away from the diversions of the city and constricted him to the hotel. However, Mike Tyson gave an interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live, where he confessed he hooked up with the hotel’s maids despite those restrictions imposed upon him.
His loss against Douglas was considered to be an astounding upset in those days. According to several experts, Tyson’s caliber was much higher than that of Douglas.
People expected Tyson to win the match easily. The boxer acknowledged in the interview that his behavior before that crucial match could have been responsible for his defeat against the underdog Douglas.
Tyson used to be a high-profile boxer those days and often grabbed headlines because of his affairs with a string of women. A notable relationship among these was his stormy marriage to Robin Givens, an actress, which came under the spotlight then.
During their marriage in the late eighties, the boxer was slapped with charges like mental instability, abuse, and violence by Givens, Ebony reported. The marriage ended in a highly controversial divorce where the boxer had to shell out a whopping $10 million as a divorce settlement.
Mike Tyson was also accused of sexual misconduct against Desiree Washington who was an ex-contestant of a beauty pageant. Eventually, he was convicted of the rape in 1992, Showbiz Cheat Sheet reports.