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Mike Tyson says he’s going to die ‘really soon’

Mike Tyson said on his podcast that he’s going to die “really soon.”

Mike Tyson believes he’s not long for this world.

The 57-year-old former heavyweight champ was having a discussion with therapist Sean McFarland guest DJ Whoo Kid on his “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson” podcast when the subject of mortality came up.

“We’re all going to die one day, of course,” Tyson said. “Then, when I look in the mirror and I see those little spots on my face, and I say, ‘Wow, my expiration date is coming close, really soon.’”

The discussion also touched on money, which Tyson said “don’t mean s— to me.”

“What is security?’ he said. “I don’t know. When you put money in your bank and you get a cheque every week and you can live for the rest of your life, is that security?

“It doesn’t mean you won’t catch a disease, or get hit by a car.”

Mike Tyson says he’s going to die ‘really soon’

Mike Tyson said on his podcast that he’s going to die “really soon.”

Mike Tyson believes he’s not long for this world.

The 57-year-old former heavyweight champ was having a discussion with therapist Sean McFarland guest DJ Whoo Kid on his “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson” podcast when the subject of mortality came up.

“We’re all going to die one day, of course,” Tyson said. “Then, when I look in the mirror and I see those little spots on my face, and I say, ‘Wow, my expiration date is coming close, really soon.’”

The discussion also touched on money, which Tyson said “don’t mean s— to me.”

“What is security?’ he said. “I don’t know. When you put money in your bank and you get a cheque every week and you can live for the rest of your life, is that security?

“It doesn’t mean you won’t catch a disease, or get hit by a car.”

Reflective Mike Tyson serves up raw, revealing moment on podcast

Mike Tyson began to cry on his podcast when he talked about days gone by and the image he has of himself today.

Mike Tyson remembers who he was. He misses him. Fears him, too.

In an extraordinary moment on his podcast, “Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson,” the former heavyweight champion talks to Sugar Ray Leonard. He tells Leonard how much he admires him. He recalls watching Leonard beat Wilfredo Benitez in 1979 when he was a 13-year-old kid in juvenile lock-up.

He wanted to be like him, Tyson tells Leonard, recalling a fighter so fast that he could make “two punches sound like one.’’

Then, Leonard, Tyson’s guest, becomes part of his audience.

His memory of Leonard triggers his memory of what motivated him to fight.

“I’m a student of effing war,’’ he says. “From Charlemagne to Achilles, the No. 1 warrior of all war years. From him to Alexander, then Napoleon. I know them all. I’ve studied them. Read them all.

“That’s why I was so feared. That’s why is was so feared in the ring. I was an annihilator.

“…That’s all I was born for.’’’’

Then, Tyson begins to cry.

“Now, those days are gone,’’ he says. “It’s empty. I’m nothing. I’m working at the art of humbleness. That’s why I’m crying. I’m not that person no more. And I miss him.

“Sometimes, I feel like a b—-, because I don’t want that person to come out, ’cause hell is coming with him.’’

It’s astonishing. It’s compelling. It’s Tyson.