Mike Tyson has admitted he “wanted to kill” Evander Holyfield during their infamous ear-biting fight in 1997.
In an extract from his book Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography, in Sydney’s Daily Telegraph, Tyson says he was furious that Evander Holyfield had head butted him: “I just wanted to kill him. Anybody watching could see that the head butts were so overt. I was furious, I was an undisciplined soldier and I lost my composure. So I bit him in the ear.”
When Tyson was disqualified for a second bite, he reveals he still wanted to attack Holyfield. “People were pulling me and blocking me and [Holyfield] was standing in his corner, huddled up … I was still trying to get at him. I had 50 people on me and I was still fighting the cops.”
Tyson also recalls the anger with which the fight was received by the general public. “Someone even threw a fish head onto my property. They kept it up until some of my security guys shot some BBs in their direction. After a while, I smoked some weed and drank some liquor and went to sleep … Back at the MGM Grand, people were fighting one another in the casino, being sent to the hospital.”
