- A man brandished a gun near Mike Tyson at a comedy club this week.
- The former heavyweight boxing champion seemed unfazed at the entire ordeal.
- He even waved the gunman over and offered him a hug.
A man pulled a gun near Mike Tyson who seemed unfazed at the incident and offered him a hug instead.
It all went down during a comedy show Tuesday at a bar in Hollywood, California, according to TMZ Sports.
Video footage shows Tyson, a 55-year-old ex-world heavyweight boxing champion, sitting at a table.
His calm demeanor is a stark contrast to the gunman who can be seen gesticulating wildly. TMZ reported that the man was attempting conversation with Tyson and broke up a performer's comedy routine.
While there is video footage of the incident, it is difficult to hear the conversation that took place but an eyewitness reportedly told the gossip site that the man wanted to fight Tyson to elevate his "status."
Tyson, unbothered, barely moved from his chair. Another person at the scene seemingly tried to encourage the man to leave.
It is at that point that things escalated as he brandished the weapon and, per TMZ's report, cocked it.
He was not armed for very long as he seemingly had second thoughts and put the gun away.
Tyson then waved the gunman over and even hugged him. Nobody was injured, and the gunman left the scene.
Los Angeles Police Department was never called, the website said.
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It is yet another footnote in Tyson's incredible story
Tyson's handling of the gunman is yet another footnote in the incredible, often downright strange, story of his life.
The Brooklyn-born boxer stormed to the highest echelons of world sport when he became world heavyweight boxing champion in 1986 aged 20 years — the youngest heavyweight champ in the sport's history.
Tyson fought a who's who of top-tier fighters through the years, including Trevor Berbick, Larry Holmes, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, Donovan Ruddock, Evander Holyfield, and Lennox Lewis.
Though he finished his career in 2005 with a record of 50 wins (44 knockouts) against six defeats, he continued to generate headline after headline.
He said recently that he was "drinking, gorging on food, and f***ing women" when he was "out of control" before filing for bankruptcy in 2003.
He talked on a podcast about the time one of his famous pet tigers attacked a woman trespassing at his house: "She was just f***ed up," he said.
On that same platform, he cried because he feels "empty" and like a "little bitch" because he misses being "an annihilator" in the ring.
And, though, he spent his coronavirus isolating pretending to box his adorable poodle called Mars, there were times in the past when he did truly shocking things.
Tyson once offered a zookeeper $10,000 to open a cage so he could "smash" a silverback gorilla in the face, he said he once knocked out a garbage man for throwing away one of his pet pigeons that had died, and told UFC commentator and podcaster Joe Rogan he struggled with the possibility that hurting somebody in boxing could be "orgasmic."
More recently, he smoked a joint before the Roy Jones Jr. exhibition in 2020, threw 193 punches in 16 minutes, and said he'd do it all again.
And was partly responsible for the modern-day boom in showbiz boxing.