How did Donald Trump impact Mike Tyson’s wealthy life?
How Mike Tyson and Donald Trump worked together to make millions and ultimately had a great relationship with each other.
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Donald Trump and Mike Tyson are two of the most popular American personalities in the world. It isn’t that surprising to see that the heavyweight boxer was close with Donald Trump and both collaborated on several fights.
Trump back in the 80s was already a successful businessman and in 1988 Tyson hired him to be his adviser. It happened when Trump organized the fight between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks in order to promote his Trump Plaza Hotel And Casino. The fight took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey in which Tyson knocked out Spinks in only 91 seconds and retained his WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight titles and won The Ring heavyweight title.
Trump had then announced, “This is the greatest live gate in the history of professional sports.”. According to reports, Trump had invested over $11 million in order to fight and made a total of $26 million from the fight. The pair continued their business for more fights which were extremely successful and both made a lot of money.
It was going smooth until they had a fallout which involved an alleged affair between Trump and Tyson’s ex-wife, Robin Givens. However,both still had good relationship and Trump also supported Tyson when he was in jail for rape for six years.
Mike Tyson remembers having business and having a great relationship with Donald Trump
Since their collaboration in the 90s, both Donald Trump and Mike Tyson have grown as individuals. Trump went on to become extremely successful in business and even got the opportunity to be the president of the US in 2017. When Tyson was asked about his earlier relationship with Trump, the retired boxer mentioned that Trump was his promoter and helped him earn a lot of money.
He said: “He promoted 18 of my fights and so how can I not know him well. He’s your promoter, he’s with you for six weeks He’s taking pictures, doing all kinds of shit. He’s just some guy like us that became president and you know he was good to everybody…He just became a president and I guess politics change him whatever it is. But I will always remember him for being a good guy. Paying me a lot of money, help giving my friends rooms and shit for free..so I know the president who he was and I know that guy too.”
According to Tyson, Trump was always nice to him and his friends and provided tickets, rooms and food for free. It was a successful partnership in which both fighters made a lot of money together.
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