Name: Mike Tyson on His Comeback Fight and Being Challenged by Jake Paul
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Mike Tyson on His Comeback Fight and Being Challenged by Jake Paul' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-04-15. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
What was it like fighting again after all those years?
Hey, listen, I did this Toad, this DMT stuff, and I lost that weight, and I
said, I don't know what happened.
I just don't know what happened. I just said, I'm going to do this.
Well, it's funny because you talked to me on the podcast before.
The first time you came on, and you said, I can't even work out.
Yes, yes.
Because if I work out, my ego will get excited.
But I did this Toad, and this Toad, I said, you got to do it.
I said, you have to do it.
The Toad told you?
You have to do it.
The DMT told you the time to fight.
You have to do it because I lost the weight.
And it started off with me at first fighting Bob Sapp at first.
That's right. The K-1 event. I was there for that. I was there live.
No, but I mean, I was going to fight.
Yeah, when you got in the ring with them, you said Marcus and Queensberry rules.
Yeah, but listen, the fight I fought with Roy Jones was supposed to be with Bob
Sapp.
Oh, really?
Oh, no kidding.
Hell yeah. I wouldn't have to chase this guy all around.
So, the next thing you know, Roy Jones got involved, and other fighters, Holyfield
got involved, and then it turned into a fiasco, and then the young guy, Jake
Paul, Jake Paul, he got involved then, and that's how the birth of Jake Paul
became.
When you get challenged by someone who's a guy like Jake Paul, does that piss
you off?
Not at all.
Is there a part of it that's just like...
No, it doesn't. I think it's awesome.
You think it's awesome?
Yeah, I think it's going to piss me off. I think it's all cool.
You think it's cool? That's awesome. That's awesome that you handle it that way.
Because, like, in a way, I mean, it's kind of insulting. It's brave, it's bold
of him, but it's also, it's like, Jesus Christ, there's levels to this world.
Let me know what I found out.
This good gentleman, he was a mayor in this town in the Midwest, right, and I
talked to him before, and he was one of those stern guys.
He always got the bills, paid, always got your lights on, always got everything
right and perfect, but he didn't have a good personality.
And he almost lost to a guy that didn't do anything, he didn't make, he shitted
on people's taxes, he messed it, but he hung out with the people.
He smoked cigarettes with them, he drank with them, he ate with them, he hanged
on their porch with them.
And that's when you learn, you can't take yourself too serious.
I mean, the world will turn on you if you take yourself too serious.
Who the hell am I to take myself too serious? Made all this money, got this
reputation, and now I'm looking at people, screw-facing them now.
I have a great life, how am I going to be mad at somebody, really, when you
think about it.
When my ego's not involved, how can I really be mad at somebody?
That's beautiful. That's a beautiful attitude, and you're so right, because
there's so many people that are so concentrating on,
they're concentrating so much on succeeding and doing great things.
That was me, I just wanted to win so bad.
I wanted to be somebody so bad, it wasn't even funny.
Yeah, and you forget what life is about.
Life is about, thank you, life is enjoying moments.
Life is a balance, and life is, your legacy is not what you accomplish, it's
what your children say about you.
At the end of the day, they know who you are, they know what you're hiding that
you don't want no one else to see.
I'm sure you are a fan of Miyamoto Musashi, I'm sure.
Tell me about The Jack of the Warrior.
Yeah, Book of Five Rings.
Yes.
He was all about balance, that was his whole thing, is like, a samurai has to
be an artist.
You have to be able to do calligraphy, you have to be able to paint, you have
to be able to write poetry.
Yes.
He felt like if you had any imbalance, like if you were too aggressive or too
peaceful, any imbalance was dangerous.
He's like, you had to be perfectly centered, so you had to be a person who
understood all things.
That's true, too.
You had to do artwork, everything.
That's true, but everybody can't express themselves being centered.
Yeah.
People have to be totally insane to express themselves, totally introverted to
express themselves, and I don't know why it's like that.
I think he's talking about it from a point of fighting with swords.
Self-control.
Yeah.
Most fighters, our main problem is self-control.
That's what I mean.
For sure.
Being out of self, yes.
Yeah, and it gets worse as you get more successful and more destructive and
more, you know, you're a conqueror, you're the fucking guy in Sports Illustrated,
you're the fucking man.
I mean, it's just, when you're a guy who's in a position like you were in when
you were 20 years old, like I've had this conversation with many people, like,
do you understand the kind of self-control?
Self-control it would take to be the baddest man on the planet and you're only
20.
Yeah, it takes a lot of self-control.
It's just crazy.
Yeah, it takes a lot of self-control.
It's a crazy position to be in.
A lot of self-control.
So, like, balance at that point in your life was almost impossible.
Like, to be, like, a male-multi-musashi type balance.
It wasn't no balance.
It was strict fighting.
No girls, it's strict.
It's too much this.
It's this.
It was this.
If I, that was bad.
Oh, God, fuck.
I can't make that happen.
I got to do better tomorrow.
Hmm.
That was bad.
Oh, God, I got to move my head.
I got hit today.
I got a black guy.
Oh, God.
If a cuss is going to be mad at me, if he see me do this, if he see me get hit.
It was just, everything was on being perfect.
Do you think that that's what it takes to make someone who is as good as you,
as young as you?
You have to be completely obsessed.
Me, Mike Tyson.
I'm an obsessed mentality type of person.
And at that point in time, I mean, to achieve what you achieved so quickly, too.
You know, like, you met cuss when you were, like, what, 13?
12.
12.
So from 12 to 20.
I mean, that's wild.
That's a wild ride.
Well, 12 to 19, he died when I was 19.
But the fact is that I put so much of myself into boxing, my emotions and
everything,
that was magnificent.
That was great.
But then when I came to life, it was disastrous.
Right.
Imagine being, imagine being the guy that's just so, boom, always in the person's
face.
Hey, hey, that's what?
Hey, baby, I love you.
Hey, hey, what's this?
Hey, hey, what's this?
Yeah.
And I'm just that manic type of person.
With everything.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I love you, but he's going to stop, stop.
Hey, what'd I do?
Hey, stop, stop.
I'm sorry.
No, no, no.
I'm going to do it again.
Oh, man.
Thank you.