Mike Tyson Calls Life A "Struggle", Say He Is Not Afraid To Die

Most boxing fans love Mike Tyson and want him to always be around but boxer legend is having a different feeling about life and is not afraid of passing away.

That sounds distasteful, right? The former heavyweight champion narrated his view on living during an interview with The Sportsman describing life as a thing of a "struggle" which he understood after acquiring some knowledge.

Tyson is one of the finest boxers who ever lived. He became a heavyweight champion at 20-year-old in 1986, making him the youngest boxer in history ever to reach the feat and it is still unbroken to date.

Now at 53, of course, he admitted life is a pretty and beautiful thing and it is what you appreciate as you age when you begin not to be scared of it anymore. And now that he had some good knowledge of what is beyond, that even made him not scared at all.

Mike Tyson became a heavyweight champion at the age of 20, making him the youngest heavyweight champion in history

"Life is pretty interesting," Tyson admitted. "We're born not knowing, we die not knowing where we came from. But our life prepares us for our death. We still don't know s**t about it, but when we get to a certain age, we're not scared of dying no more."

Tyson rose to the pinnacle of his career very quick than any boxers could have done and retained the position for 12 years before he was stopped by Evander Holyfield in an eleventh-round knockout in 1997.

However, the thought of dying is something that has been lingering in the retired boxer's mind ever since his early days in the sport. One thing is he feared the sport is a dangerous one but he would not be the one that will be a victim in the ring.

"I know there was a possibility that I could die during training, during a fight. I knew that" he added. "But I wasn't scared because I thought if anybody was going to die, I would do the killing. That self-confidence was a survival mechanism."