Inside Mike Tyson's life away from the ring as he prepares to face Jake Paul: From burning through £300M on pet tigers and limos to multiple stints in prison - and recovering from being a 'full-blown cokehead'

Inside Mike Tyson's life away from the ring as he prepares to face Jake Paul: From burning through £300M on pet tigers and limos to multiple stints in prison - and recovering from being a 'full-blown cokehead' 'Iron Mike' is due to step back into the ring vs Paul for the first time since 2020 Outside of boxing Tyson has bounced back from bankruptcy with new ventures 58-year-old has also seen his private life settle amid a happy 15-year marriage By TAMARA PRENN Published: 22:00, 14 November 2024 | Updated: 22:00, 14 November 2024 e-mail 24 shares View comments When Mike Tyson retired from professional boxing in 2005, few could have predicted that the next time that he would step into the ring for a sanctioned fight would be nearly two decades later - opposite a YouTube star three decades his junior. But with Tyson's controversial, big-money fight against the 27-year-old tantalisingly close, the former boxer is likely reflecting on why he stayed away from boxing for so long. For all of the undisputed former champion's prowess on the canvas, his life outside it was largely chaos during his fighting career.

Acrimonious relationships blurred into one another, against a hazy backdrop of addiction, and his life was peppered with serious run-ins with the law. Since hanging up his gloves, Tyson's life has been far from drama-free - but the fighter has mellowed somewhat, swapping pet tigers and lavish spending for a comparatively modest existence in Las Vegas , and biting off his oppo.