Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson wants to resume his boxing career when he leaves prison because he can’t make a living any other way.
“What else am I going to do, man, be a nuclear scientist?” he said in an interview with the New York Daily News published Wednesday. “All I know how to do is fight.”
Tyson, who could be released as early as the spring of 1995 from the Indiana Youth Center, where he is serving a six-year term on a rape conviction, believes he could defeat “what’s out there,” including champion Evander Holyfield.
“I’m envious of him,” Tyson said of Holyfield. “He’s got what I want . . . he’s classy . . . he carries himself with dignity, but I can beat him. He’s weak”
He said Holyfield, Bowe and the other top heavyweights-Razor Ruddock and Lennox Lewis, don’t have to be fighters.
“They can do other things . . . they’re athletes . . . not me,” Tyson said. “I didn’t play ball when I was a kid. All I know how to do is fight.”
