With his next fight just two months away, 57-year-old boxing legend Mike Tyson suffered a health scare on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles on Sunday.
In Touch Weekly reported that Tyson’s medical issue required paramedics to board the plane and a prerecorded message asking the cabin for doctors also played over the intercom.
Once the plane landed at LAX, the passengers reportedly waited on the plane for nearly 30 minutes before being able to deplane as they tended to Tyson.
“He was in first class, but we were an exit row,” a passenger told In Touch. “They asked us to stay on the plane and landed so paramedics could enter. [The stewardess] said something like, ‘He’s a really important passenger so we wanna make sure he’s OK.’ I knew it was him, but I just mouthed the words ‘Mike Tyson’ and she nodded her head yes.”
“Thankfully Mr. Tyson is doing great,” Tyson’s representatives said in a statement to the magazine. “He became nauseous and dizzy due to an ulcer flare-up 30 minutes before landing. He is appreciative to the medical staff that were there to help him.”
Tyson will be facing off with Jake Paul in his first sanctioned fight since 2005 on July 20 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. Should Tyson win, it will be his first victory since a first-round knockout win over Clifford Etienne in February of 2003.
