Recently, UFC supernova "Wolf King" Khamzat Chimaev turned down an invitation to Mike Tyson's Hotboxin podcast guest, bluntly saying that Tyson "has done a lot of bad things before."
Tyson's podcast is currently very popular, where not only will Tyson's series of unheard of secrets of the year, but also often invite various fighting celebrities to participate in the scene, so the number of on-demand broadcasts in each episode is as high as hundreds of thousands, and many sports guests have been invited by Tyson and are proud.
Including former boxing champion Hollyfield, boxing superstar four-time champion Avarez, WBC heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury, UFC "Kitty" Habib and others are all guests, but Tyson has eaten behind closed doors at UFC rising star Chimayev.
Chimayev is now the UFC's hottest rising star, and his competitive form has sent him soaring in the sub-middleweight rankings. His recent unbeaten rivalry includes the challenge of The Captain of the U.S. Olympic Wrestling Team/former UFC Double Champion Daniel Cormier, the WWE Champion/UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesner and the UFC Sub-Welterweight Champion GSP Georges Saint Pierre, and the UFC Champion Nate Diaz and others have not responded, accumulating high popularity for him.
But when the future champion got the chance, he refused to participate in Tyson's podcast invitation, leaving the boxer very faceless. Chimayev said he respected Tyson's achievements in the game, but did not respect Tyson's personal behavior.
"Ali (the agent) said Mike Tyson also wanted me to be on his podcast, but I didn't go," Chimayev said. As a boxer, as an athlete, I really like him. But I don't like all the violence that happened to him, drugs, marijuana and so on, he went through a lot of things because of these things, he collapsed, he did a lot of bad things. ”
"Nobody knows who's going to happen, even a good and normal person, once his life changes, may also go into a mental hospital, I won't judge anyone, but I just don't want to go," Chimayev added.
Kitty was invited to Tyson's podcast in August, and although he saw Tyson as his idol, he still bluntly stated on the show that he didn't like Tyson's cannabis products on the scene and wanted to remove them.
Tyson, as the most famous figure in the world of martial arts, has eaten a newcomer's closed door, and presumably he is uncomfortable in both heart and face. And Chimayev's attention in this move is even more than his participation in Tyson's podcast, so whether he has a plan or really respects what he thinks in his heart, we will never know.