Published 12:06 IST, October 10th 2020

Frank Warren remembers when Mike Tyson punched him and was chased away by the police

Legendary boxing promoter Frank Warren recently remembered the time former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson attacked him in a London hotel room.

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Legendary boxing promoter Frank Warren recently appeared on Andy Coulson’s Crisis What Crisis? Podcast where he remembered time “bully” Mike Tyson attacked him in a London hotel room. While talking about temper of Mike Tyson, Frank Warren claimed that incident between him and Tyson took place over a jewellery bill and affections of a woman. Things got so much worse that police had to chase Mike Tyson out of city.

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What happened between Frank Warren and Mike Tyson?

While telling story, Frank Warren said that he had a great relationship with Mike Tyson when pair first met – right after Mike Tyson came out of prison and was boxing in UK. However, in late 90s, Warren realised why Tyson was called ‘ baddest man on planet' at that time. One day, Mike Tyson bought around $2 million worth of jewellery but didn’t pay jewellers. “y never paid bill and jewellers, quite rightly, wanted to get paid and y kept ringing me,” added Frank Warren.

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When Frank Warren called Mike Tyson about bill, he said that y will keep one more event in UK and pay jewellers with profits. However, when Mike Tyson returned to town, he was “petulant and aggressive”. Warren later found out that Mike Tyson liked a girl who used to work in jewellery shop and made expensive purchase, just to show off in front of her.

Frank Warren later revealed that he got a call from someone a few days later who asked him to come to Mike Tyson’s hotel room. When Frank Warren reached room, Mike Tyson started talking trash and took a swing at him with hit him. He said when got up, it was “pandemonium, madness” in room. He added that blow from Mike Tyson gave him a bloodied eye, even though various newspapers claimed that his jaw was broken, which is “t true”.

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“I made sure that he paid for what he did, hit it where it hurt him. And he went berserk after fight, police actually ran him out of town,” added Frank Warren.

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12:06 IST, October 10th 2020