Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson repeatedly punched a passenger on a plane about to fly out of San Francisco after reportedly becoming irritated by the man\u2019s attempts to talk to him.<\/p>\n
Cell phone footage showed Tyson leaning over the back of his seat and delivering a flurry of blows to the man, who appeared to be left with bruises and some bleeding in the incident on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cIron Mike\u201d was initially friendly to the passenger and his friend when they boarded the flight but reacted after the man \u201cwouldn\u2019t stop provoking\u201d him, the TMZ entertainment website said.<\/span><\/p>\n The man \u201ckept trying to talk\u201d to the 55-year-old fighter, it reported.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTyson had enough of the guy behind him talking in his ear\u2026 and told him to chill. When the guy didn\u2019t, that\u2019s when the witness says Tyson started to throw several punches at the man\u2019s face.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Tyson was reported to have walked off the plane before it took off for Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n US police, the JetBlue airline and Tyson\u2019s representatives made no immediate comment on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n Considered one of the best heavyweights of all time, Tyson is also known for his erratic behavior \u2014 biting off a piece of Evander Holyfield\u2019s ear in a 1997 bout \u2014 and brushes with the law, including a conviction for rape and a cocaine addiction.<\/span><\/p>\n AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson repeatedly punched a passenger on a plane about to fly out of San Francisco after reportedly becoming irritated by the man\u2019s attempts to talk to him. Cell phone footage showed Tyson leaning over the back of his seat and delivering a flurry of blows to the man, who appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4368,4155,4369,4370],"class_list":["post-7274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-mike-tyson","tag-passenger","tag-punch","tag-us-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7276,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7274\/revisions\/7276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}