Bill Maher can’t understand what has happened to the world he once knew, as he lamented during Friday’s Real Time on HBO.
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Ice-T and Gene Simmons are among those who shared support for Mike Tyson over the weekend, after the former heavyweight champion repeatedly punched a passenger on a flight bound for Miami.As reported by TMZ, Tyson was embroiled in the altercation last Wednesday (April 20) when a punter sat behind him on the JetBlue flight started loudly heckling and antagonising the boxer. Footage obtained by the gossip site shows Tyson landing several blows on the man – later identified as 36-year-old Melvin Townsend III – who appears bloodied after the battering.Tyson’s representatives said Townsend was acting “aggressive” towards the boxer – who was en route to Miami for a speaking engagement at the Benzinga Cannabis Conference – and claimed that in addition to verbally “harassing” him, Townsend “threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat”.In a subsequent statement shared with TMZ, the San Francisco Police Department said officers detained two people alleged to be involved in the altercation, however one of them – believed to be Townsend, having been treated for injuries – “provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation”.In the days since the incident took place, a handful of celebrities have come out in defence of Tyson’s conduct.
Social media personality Jake Paul was among the boxer’s earliest supporters, Tweeting: “If you’re being heckled in public like Mike Tyson was you should legally get a hall pass to beat someone’s ass. This generation thinks they can get away with anything.”Simmons echoed Paul’s sentiment, Tweeting in response: “Agreed!” Ice-T, meanwhile, shared a string of his own takes on the matter – he called Townsend a “clownass” who “forgot he was NOT
.Bill Maher can’t understand what has happened to the world he once knew, as he lamented during Friday’s Real Time on HBO.
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Mike Tyson will not face charges stemming from an incident on a plane caught on video.The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office tells ET that is has decided not to file any charges against the former heavyweight champion of the world «based on the circumstances surrounding the confrontation.» Those circumstances include «the conduct of the victim leading up to the incident, the interaction between Mr. Tyson and the victim, as well as the requests of both the victim and Mr.
Authorities will not file criminal charges against former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson after he was recorded on video punching a fellow first-class passenger aboard a plane at San Francisco International Airport last month, prosecutors announced Tuesday.
KISS‘ Gene Simmons has once again called out those who are sceptical about getting the coronavirus vaccine.The bassist has long been a staunch advocate for the vaccine, and in a new interview he’s explained that he’s still of the opinion that anti-vaxxers are posing a risk to themselves and to all those around them.“Look, I’ve always been a safe guy. I’ve never been run over by a car. But then whenever I get to the street corner, I do what I was taught, which is look both ways, cross at the green, not in between, and all that stuff.
isn’t throwing punches, he’s chilling out in a fairly modest Las Vegas home that he’s owned for the past six years. One of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, earning more than $400 million over the course of his professional boxing career, Tyson shelled out a mere $2.5 million for the six-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate back in 2015. Located in Henderson, Nevada — a few minutes from Sin City — it is the sole property that the “The Baddest Man on the Planet” owns.
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Losing his cool. Mike Tyson was filmed allegedly punching a fellow passenger on a flight home from San Francisco on Wednesday, April 20.
investigation,” police said in a statement Thursday.Both were released pending further investigation, the statement said.Another passenger on the flight, Sarah Burchfield, said she saw the man who Tyson punched at an airport bar earlier appearing loud and quarrelsome.“When I boarded the flight, I thought, ‘Oh, no, that drunk guy is on our flight,’” Burchfield told SFGate.Burchfield said when she boarded she passed Tyson's seat in the first class section of the plane.“The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting," she said. A short time later, she heard the confrontation in first class, she said.San Francisco police said the video has been shared with the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, which has jurisdiction over the airport.Sheriff's officials said “we are not releasing information on the incident because it is an active investigation.”JetBlue didn't immediately respond to an email seeking additional details.Since Tyson, 55, retired from boxing, he has worked as an actor, podcaster and cannabis entrepreneur.
Mike Tyson's reps are addressing the video that surfaced Thursday morning that appears to show the former heavyweight champion getting into a physical confrontation with a man on a plane bound for Florida.Tyson's reps tell ET, «Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.» The rep did not offer any more details, but according to, which posted two videos of the alleged incident, Tyson physically confronted a passenger shortly after boarding a JetBlue flight Wednesday night in San Francisco.The outlet reports that, initially, Tyson took a selfie with the person sitting behind him but the man in question was overly excited and things allegedly took a turn for the worse when the boxing legend got fed up, leading to the physical confrontation.
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