Mike Tyson Feels Guilty Over Tupac’s Death

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was a huge draw for celebrities back in his his heyday. Going to a Mike Tyson fight in Las Vegas was one of the best live sporting events in the world. He was someone who was must see. Even his old buddy Tupac Shakur was a huge fan, and was a big fan of attending fights.

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Back in 1996, Tupac attended Tyson/Seldon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Tyson asked Tupac to come to the fight, a request he now regrets. Mike believes if Tupac never came, he’d still be alive today.

“I feel a little guilty about him coming to the fight and me pressuring him — I was supposed to go out with him that night. I promised to go to the 662 with him that night, but I just had a little baby and her mother was provoking me to stay home, so I stayed home,” Tyson told DJ Vlad. “Someone called me that night and told me that happened.”

“This is just what we do. You know, I come to my senses and come to my objectivity and I know who I am, I know what my elements about and my world. That’s what happens in my world. This is what happens to my world that was part of my world,” he said. “My world just happens. But just because it was Tupac and I was attached to it, it was different. But normally, this is what I expect somebody to die after a fight or somebody get hurt, something crazy happens, but when it happened to him, it was different.”

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Tupac had a lot of enemies, so if not after that fight, something would have gone down on another night. Would it have turned deadly like the night of the Tyson Fight?

Hard to say, but Mike can’t blame himself. That’s absolutely ridiculous.

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