Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson promises that “someone’s going to get bit” when he goes toe-to-fin with Jaws in Shark Week’s Rumble in the Reef next month.
What exactly “Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef” will look like is left to the imagination as Discovery Channel is keeping mum on the details, but it did say famed ring announcer Michael Buffer will be calling the shots.
It also said Tyson will try to score a TKO over the massive shark…all in the name of research.
“I took on this challenger to overcome fears I still deal with in life,” Tyson said. “I equate this with overcoming my fear of getting back into the ring at 54 years old.
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“I learned from this experience doing Shark Week that whatever intimidates me, I am still able to step up to the challenge of overcoming anything that would prevent me from accomplishing my life’s mission of reaching my highest potential in life and bringing me closer to God.”
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Tyson, known for biting off part of Evander Holyfield’s ear in the Bite Fight of 1997, made the statement that “someone’s going to get bit” during a promo video, which shows the Baddest Man on the Planet reduced to having difficult blowing up an inner tube. To which he replied, “Shark Week is hard, man.”
Discovery Channel noted that no sharks were harmed or bitten in the making of this episode, which kicks off Shark Week on Aug. 9. So does this mean the shark bites Tyson? Hmm.
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