How to meet Mike Tyson. Any ideas?

Try to locate his house, hang around until he finally leaves the house, try and approach him and then post back here after you recover from being knocked unconscious.
 
I went to a small boxing event at the Orleans in Las Vegas a few years back and spoke with Mike Tyson, Virgil Hill and Floyd Mayweather.
 
If he is promoting a boxing event, try staying at the same hotel he's at. You might run into him.

HOF weekend last year, we stayed at the Turning Stone Casino in Verona, NY. Tyson was promoting an ESPN FNF there that weekend as well. Ran into him at the coffee shop the next morning. Posed for pictures but didn't smile lol. And he is most definitely 5'11 AT LEAST. I'm 6'2 and he wasn't that much shorter than me.
 
MC Paul Barman said:
It was after the fight. He was standing around by himself wearing a hawaiian shirt.
I went up to him and told him I watched all of his fights that were aired. Told him he had a great chin, lots of power and that he was always fun to watch. All of which he was very receptive towards. But then I said, "I hope you go back in the ring again, you're a great fighter.".
Then he turned. For some reason this really ticked him off. He yelled at me, "I proved myself already. I don't need to do anything for YOU *this is when he poked me in my chest* or anyone else. The guys fighting now haven't proved anything. I don't need to chase people down for a belt, they should be chasing me down for a belt."
He was walking right into me - I had to move back or I would have been right up against him. His left fist was balled up by his side.
He called me a punk a bunch of times and challenged me to do something.
THANKFULLY a huge security guard got in between us.... well, more in front of McCall because I wasn't about to do anything.... except for bleed alot if it got ugly.

Yeah, pretty bad night.
Fly to Auburn Hills, fight ends early because Golota was mad, food just flying in the Palace, got hit by some, get called a punk and challenged to fight by a heavyweight boxer.
THEN.... fly back to Wisconsin, see the movie "Blair Witch 2" - possibly one of the worst horror films I have ever seen.
Terrible weekend.
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Yes Tyson transcended the sport of boxing, and is a pop colture icon that earned it, but come on, man, he's a fruitloop.
No direspect, you have done nothing wrong, but still, I wouldn't have done and said what u did. You hav to understand this 50 year old child is sensetive. Yes, I said it, No different than Michael Jackson or any other Transcended historical celebrity grown up child super star.
I would have treated him like I would a child, with out being condescending, as he is well-spoken.
You were better off talking about The Mike Tyson Mysteries cartoon they anounced at comic con, and how great that idea was. He would have invited you for a beer at the strip club in the VIP section.
 
Killer ofTrolls said:
Yes Tyson transcended the sport of boxing, and is a pop colture icon that earned it, but come on, man, he's a fruitloop.
No direspect, you have done nothing wrong, but still, I wouldn't have done and said what u did. You hav to understand this 50 year old child is sensetive. Yes, I said it, No different than Michael Jackson or any other Transcended historical celebrity grown up child super star.
I would have treated him like I would a child, with out being condescending, as he is well-spoken.
You were better off talking about The Mike Tyson Mysteries cartoon they anounced at comic con, and how great that idea was. He would have invited you for a beer at the strip club in the VIP section.
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Think he is talking about Oliver McCall
 
MC Paul Barman said:
I almost ticked Oliver McCall off enough to beat me to a pulp.
He was walking into me, poking his finger in my chest, balling up his other fist. I'm only 5'8. At the time I was only about 160lbs. I was scared ish'less.

This was right after the Tyson-Golota fight.
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You should have stared him right in the eyes and asked, "...500?"

He would have been the one shitting.
 
If you want to get close to a celebrity like Tyson, you befriend someone close to him who is not famous. If you've got decent people skills, your chances of eventually being introduced can actually be fairly good. I've met some musicians (and a famous motivational speaker haha) that way.
 
Sir Punchalot said:
If you want to get close to a celebrity like Tyson, you befriend someone close to him who is not famous. If you've got decent people skills, your chances of eventually being introduced can actually be fairly good. I've met some musicians (and a famous motivational speaker haha) that way.
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That’s exactly how I got to meet Mike Tyson.

Had no idea that one of my buddies, who happens to own Sugar Factory inside Planet Hollywood has been a childhood friend of Mike. One day my buddy was passing by my job, and low and behold, Mike was walking with him. No bodyguards, no entourage, and no one mobbing him. So I excused myself for a minute, and walked up to my buddy to ask him to ask Mike for a picture. Obviously I wasn’t going to just randomly go directly to Mike when he doesn’t know me like that.

It worked out perfect.


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triplej said:
That’s exactly how I got to meet Mike Tyson.

Had no idea that one of my buddies, who happens to own Sugar Factory inside Planet Hollywood has been a childhood friend of Mike. One day my buddy was passing by my job, and low and behold, Mike was walking with him. No bodyguards, no entourage, and no one mobbing him. So I excused myself for a minute, and walked up to my buddy to ask him to ask Mike for a picture. Obviously I wasn’t going to just randomly go directly to Mike when he doesn’t know me like that.

It worked out perfect.


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Mike doesn't look to happy about it but whatever, that's a great story
 
Roljo said:
Mike doesn't look to happy about it but whatever, that's a great story
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I think he was a little impatient because my buddy was trying to figure out how to get the camera on my phone to pop up, so we were standing there in that hand shake pose for nearly a minute until he finally got it. Either way, I’m very thankful he was kind enough to take a picture with me.
 
RawHawg said:
Try to locate his house, hang around until he finally leaves the house, try and approach him and then post back here after you recover from being knocked unconscious.
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don't pee in his pool and steal his tiger.
 
triplej said:
I think he was a little impatient because my buddy was trying to figure out how to get the camera on my phone to pop up, so we were standing there in that hand shake pose for nearly a minute until he finally got it. Either way, I’m very thankful he was kind enough to take a picture with me.
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Imagine he ran out of patient, and just knock you out right there for holding his hand for too long
 
CodeBreaker said:
Imagine he ran out of patient, and just knock you out right there for holding his hand for too long
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Well in all fairness, he could have let go at any given time lol, but it was one of those moments where we weren’t sure whether or not my buddy had my camera up and running or not. I mean I wouldn’t blame him one bit for letting go until it was time to snap a picture, but it simply happened the way it did.
 
Easy enough, Mike is accessible, just hope you catch him in a good mood..
 
I've known Tyson since he was 15 & I fought his stablemate, Stephon Frost in the Empire State Games back in 1982. In the pros, I was scheduled to fight on the same card as him in 1986 at MSG but my opponent failed his eye exam. This photo was taken at the weigh-ins that morning.
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I hear he likes to be surprised. Sneak up on him, jump out from behind some bushes. Make sure you yell really loud to intensify the surprise.
 
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