Mike Tyson claims Brad Pitt pleaded with him not to be beaten up during a volatile encounter over two decades ago.
The former heavy weight boxing champion reveals in his new tell-all memoir that in the late 1980s Pitt was dating Tyson’s estranged wife Robin Givens.
And on one particular day Iron Mike bumped into the then-unknown actor on a date with Givens where, according to Tyson, a ‘stoned’ Pitt got very nervous and begged the pugilist not to ‘strike’ him.
RadarOnline reports that the 47-year-old former boxer recounts the moment in his new book Undisputed Truth when he came face-to-face with the Fight Club star.
In the anecdote, Tyson dropped by his then estranged wife Robin’s house when he found the burgeoning actor at her home.
Of the encounter, the boxer-turned-performer writes: ‘You had to see the look on his [Pitt’s] face