Mike Tyson "irritated" during Sky News interview, denies return

Not surprising he’s finding it difficult to cope with things.

He’s always struggled with fame. A lot of people inside the United States don’t understand once you leave the US guys like Barry Bonds and Kobe Bryant are practically unknown in nearly any country you go to apart from maybe Canada.

Mike Tyson was famous to the degree he couldn’t go to England, US, Russia, Kazakhstan and even countries like India and Iran without people mobbing him.

I remember the first time he touched down in England a few years ago he was walking the streets alone just checking out jewellery shops.

About an hour later so many people started following him around they had to escort him into a police station. A few hours later word gets around he’s in town and two thousand people have gathered outside the police station and he is talking from a loud speaker asking them to let him go.

In the end he had to leave in a police van that had tinted windows.

Only celebrity that has got that reaction close to that other than Mike is Muhammad Ali and Michael Jackson.

Some of these guys were complete titans of fame and for the most part it ate away at them with everything they did being under a microscope. After they retired they nearly disappeared off the map so you can tell they wanted and needed a break from it all.

He’s apparently doing a promotional tour in Britain at the moment. I hope he’s prepared once word gets out he’s likely going to find it extremely hard to maneuveur again.