Mike Tyson has opened on how he ‘blew’ his huge fortune.
The former undisputed heavyweight champion earnt a staggering $430million [£343m] fortune, but sadly he later filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
And ‘Iron Mike’ has admitted it was the people around him and the pressures of being a superstar that saw him financially struggle for a while.
He told tennis star Nick Kyrgios: “At the beginning, I didn’t handle fame too well. You know because at first you want the fame of being a champion, but you have no control then.
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“And that’s when I first started getting in trouble because sometimes I might be walking the streets, they don’t know my mother died or something about my family.
“I’m hurt and they just jumping in, ‘Hey man, give me a picture. Hey man this. Hey man. I love you. Give me this’.”
“I might not be in the mood, so I used to be violent about it. And then, I started getting quite a few lawsuits and I stopped.
“I’m a glutton for pain, but I stopped. I couldn’t sign anymore checks so. I was always being sued.
“Constantly blew my money away from being sued and going to court and just associating with the wrong people and making bad business decisions.
“And it was just the whole caboot, pretty much. That was just me getting caught up in a vortex of destroying myself.”
The 57-year-old will face YouTube star Jake Paul, a fight which will see him earn a reported $20m.
