Mike Tyson’s gearing up for a return to the ring against YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul on Friday night (Nov. 15), and Iron Mike is serving up plenty of viral moments heading into the bout. And unsurprisingly, 50 Cent has some thoughts to share about it.
It all started when Tyson went deep with 14-year-old interviewer Jazzy when comparing legacy to ego, and how once you’re dead, life is meaningless and it doesn’t matter anymore. “Well, I don’t know. I don’t believe in the word legacy,” Tyson said in the interview posted Thursday (Nov. 14). “I just think that’s another word for ego. Legacy doesn’t mean nothing. That’s just a word everybody grabbed onto. Somebody said that word and everyone grabbed not the word so now it’s used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me.”
The boxing legend continued: “I’m just passing through. I’ma die and it’s gonna be over. Who cares about legacy after that? What a big ego. So I’ma die and I want people to think that I’m this, I’m great? No. We’re nothing. We’re dead. We’re dust. We’re absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing.”
Jazzy handled the response well for a teenager, admitting she’d never heard that type of answer to her question.
In another clip from the chat, the teen asked the boxer what he thought of his opponent. “I don’t think much of him,” Tyson admitted, before noting Paul is “very funny.”
The interview quickly spread like wildfire on social media, and 50 — not one to mince words when something gets on his radar — claimed Mike was scaring the kids.
“Goddam it ! Mike ya scaring the kids, WTF chill. Note to self, keep the kids away from Mike,” he wrote to X.
That wasn’t it for headlines for Tyson on Thursday (Nov. 14), as tensions boiled over at the official weigh-ins when Iron Mike took offense to Paul appearing to step on his toes during the face-off, with Mike slapping his opponent across the face.
50 had more jokes, as he reposted an older interview clip of Tyson admitting how much he hates when people step on his feet. “If someone stepped on my feet, I’d totally give up and tap out,” Tyson says in the video.
“See you step on an older man’s feet, and s–t can get crazy. LOL,” 50 added with his caption to the post.
No more talking, as Tyson and Jake Paul will finally step into the ring and fight on Friday night. The boxing main card starts at 8 p.m. ET and is streaming on Netflix.
Watch Tyson’s interview with Jazzy below:
