Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson went viral last week after he punched a fellow airplane passenger in the face on a recent JetBlue flight. In a clip of the incident, the victim of Tyson’s wrath continues to taunt the 55-year-old athlete until he grows so fed up he snaps.
But Ice-T doesn’t necessarily see anything wrong with Tyson’s reaction. On Thursday (April 21), the gangsta rap pioneer suggested people have become so comfortable spewing their vitriol on social media, they forget there are real life consequences when doing it in person.
“Mike Tyson punched somebody who was Fn with him,” Ice-T tweeted. “The problem is nowadays, MFs think they WON’T get punched in the Facc.” He added, “Yep….. But that’s the Fn TRUTH! Clownass forgot he was NOT behind his keyboard. If Dumbfucks said the type of Shit they say to me on HERE Face to Face….. I know I’d be in Prison.” He included an alleged quote from Tyson that reads, “Social media made y’all way too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.”
The man, who TMZ later identified as Melvin Townsend III, was sitting behind Tyson when he was captured on video heckling the fighter. Tyson is initially able to ignore Townsend’s antics, but he eventually swings on him for throwing a bottle at his head. Townsend has since lawyered up, with his attorney Matt Morgan describing Townsend as nothing more than an “overly excited fan.”
Morgan added, “At a certain point, Mr. Tyson clearly became agitated by an overly excited fan and began to strike him in an excessive manner. This situation could have been avoided simply by contacting the flight attendant. Our client denies throwing a water bottle prior to being struck by Mr. Tyson.”
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Townsend reportedly has an extensive criminal record, which includes convictions of crimes such as fraud, grand theft, burglary, possession of controlled substances and trafficking in stolen property. In 2018, the 36-year-old broke onto a property and stole a trailer he hitched to his pickup, while the drug possession charge was for oxycodone. He served time twice — once for 20 months and another time for 15 months.
Townsend declined to press charges and both he and Tyson were free to leave after the incident, but a source close to the man says he’s “still in shock and has not made a determination on what his next steps will be. He hired counsel due to his physical injuries, the overwhelming nature of this event and the associated media inquiries.”
HipHopDX has reached out to Ice-T for further comment.
wait so no private jet?
Mike obviously can afford to charter or purchase a private jet, but why does he need to? Mike has been there and done all of the aforementioned before. Mike has grown wiser with his money over time.
Same thing I said about Chris Rock, people forget sometimes real life actually is real life. Everybody so use to being able to be super warriors on social media or get to say whatever they want with no consequences. And then when you pop em in the eye or mouth everybody want to treat them like a victim naw they aint no victim they’re instigators.
Except Chris Rock is a professional stand-up comedian…he gets paid to talk shit for a living. Dude who got punched by Tyson is just a clout chaser. Bad comparison.
hunna % tru
If Will felt he needed to slap Chris then he should have shot August Alsina because August violated Will and Jada on another entire level, and Will didn’t do anything nor say anything. Yet Will want to be tough with Pookie who is a professional comic who was just doing his job making people laugh, whereas August was straight serious and had no respect for Will or his garden tool wife and to think August was Jaden’s friend SMH he shiz on your entire family. The only thing he could do worse is to bang Willow as well.
He fuck3d around and found out
At least dude can say he got punched by Tyson and shitted on by Ice T all in 1 week. We’ll never experience that EVER
93: “At least dude can say he got punched by Tyson and shitted on by Ice T all in 1 week. We’ll never experience that EVER”
Yeah, that’s ok. I’m good.
A lot of people talk all that Jazz behind a keyboard essentially under their mammy’s skirt where its nice and safe, but when they gotta catch that straight fade then they are looking for the police to bail them out of danger. They take on the role of a Damsel In Distress. Lil’ Batch-azz-ninjas.
I wouldn’t harass Ice-T because he’s a nice guy. He doesn’t deserve to have random fans be rude to him.
I wouldn’t harass Mike Tyson because he’s a professional boxer with a hair trigger temper. I wouldn’t bother Mike Tyson for the same reason I wouldn’t try to pet a live tiger. That man on the plane done lost his mind.