Mike Tyson's Chill Response After Ruthlessly Beating A Fellow Passenger Mid Flight

Mike Tyson was seen enjoying the weather and marijuana in San Francisco, seemingly celebrating the marijuana-themed 4/20 holiday just hours before repeatedly a punching a fellow passenger on a plane at the San Francisco airport Wednesday night - a disturbing attack that left the man with a bloody forehead.

Tyson, 54, a marijuana entrepreneur, was seen earlier in the day celebrating April 20 (4/20) by smoking pot on San Francisco's famed Hippie Hill.

The boxer was seen enjoying marijuana as the crowd was seen flocking to The Hangover star. 

Before boarding his flight, the former boxing champion was seen at the San Francisco airport by Bay Area-photographer Josh Edelson, who was returning with his wife from a trip to Italy.

Edelson approached Tyson for a picture roughly an hour-and-a-half before Tyson's incident on the JetBlue flight.  

Edelson said: 'When we walked out of the airport, I turned to my wife, like, ''Oh my God, that's Mike Tyson right there.''

'So I went up to him and was like, ''Mike do you mind if I get a picture with you real quick?'' And he responded with, 'I don't give a f***,' and then he took a huge toke of his joint.

'I went and took a picture with him, and he took another big toke and said ''goodbye'' to his driver, who I assume drove him there from Hippie Hill or wherever he came from in San Francisco,' Edelson continued. 'And that was pretty much it. I didn't really think very much of it. Then I left and went home, and then woke up this morning, and as it turns out, he was just arriving to go fly home or [Fort Lauderdale.]'

Edelson says that Tyson was in a peaceful mood before his redeye flight to Florida. 

'He was really chill,' Edelson said. 'He seemed overall happy. He obviously was smoking, was having a good time and seemed to be in a really good mood.' 

Tyson, meanwhile said that his reaction was to the rude passenger who continued to harass him and even threw a water bottle at him.

'Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat,' a representative for Tyson told DailyMail.com in an email. 

San Francisco police told TMZ that officers did respond to the scene and detained two people believed to be involved in the altercation. One was treated for non-life-threatening injuries, but that person 'provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation.' 

It is yet to be established if Tyson and the alleged victim were on board when the flight departed for Fort Lauderdale. Tyson's spokesperson also did not respond when asked if he was arrested. 

Video made from a cellphone camera shows the boxing champion smacking and hitting the chatty fan seated right behind him.

That man, who remains unidentified, initially had a cordial exchange with Tyson, according to TMZ.

According to one witness, the man and a friend greeted Tyson as they boarded the plane and even got their picture taken with Tyson.

However, the man behind him continued to chat with no break and soon Tyson got tired of him and requested him to be quiet.

 When the man continued talking, Tyson reportedly then stood, turned, and hit several punches to the man's face and forehead.

'Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey Mike, come on, stop that,' a witness is heard saying on the cell phone footage.

Though, the cell phone video did not include footage of the man throwing a water bottle at Tyson. 

Another short clip shows the aftermath of the brutal attack, with the man sporting traces of blood on his forehead.

'My boy just got beat up by Mike Tyson,' said the man shooting the video. 'Yeah, he got f***ed up. Just trying to ask for an autograph. I don't know what happened.'

A spokesperson for Fort Lauderdale airport police said 'it appears that the incident occurred entirely in San Francisco,' adding that their department had 'no involvement' in the matter. 

The incident shortly comes after Tyson recently shared a bizarre theory while high on marijuana during a recent podcast.

During Friday's installment of The Joe Rogan Experience, a high Tyson said he 'really believes' that the rich abduct vagrants to chase and hunt them on large private estates, unbeknownst to the uninitiated 99 percent.   

As the pair smoked their weed, lighting up their separate joints, Tyson told Rogan that 'whatever you think a human did to another human being - it happened. Whatever it is, it happened.'

'Somewhere in history?' Rogan asked. 

'Yeah, and sometimes these special camps and stuff it happens,' Tyson continued. 'These people own these thousands of acres and nothing grows on 'em.'

'Right, weird ranches where people do rituals and s***,' Rogan encouraged. 

'Might want to hunt a motherf*****,' Tyson said. 

'That's not outside the realm of possibility!' Rogan replied, shocked. 

'I know, that's why I'm throwing it at you,' Tyson said. 

'I guarantee you there's been someone, somewhere in the world who paid someone to hunt a person,' Rogan said. 'I guarantee you that's happened!'

It is also rumored that Tyson is working on an exhibition fight with YouTuber Jake Paul. Though many details are not yet known. 

According to The Sun,  the two were nearing a deal for a bout that could be worth upwards of $50 million. 

'Mike and Jake are on board for an exhibition bout in Las Vegas,' a business associate of Tyson's told The Sun.

'A verbal deal has been struck to get it on, but like all forms of sports business, now it's all about the contracts and money split.

'Mike is looking for a certain figure to get into the ring with a profit share guarantee.

'Jake obviously has that on his mind but is keen to show the world that stepping into the ring with a man once called, ''the baddest man on the planet,'' takes his boxing career to the next level.'

And to point out that the 30-year age difference will make this bout a spectacle to watch.

'This fight bridges the gap between old school boxing fans and the new generation of followers,' the source told The Sun.

Previously, Tyson talked about another exhibition following his split decision draw against retired boxing legend Roy Jones Jr. in 2020.

At that time, Tyson was sure that he would be back in the ring by February but it seems like it will be taking place later in 2022.

'I am going to have a return fight in February and we are pretty skeptical about the opponent but it will be a really stimulating opponent,' Tyson told the Sun.

According to Tyson, the money for fighting one of the well-known Paul or his brother Logan would be too much to refuse.

'That is the fight for the money,' Tyson said in 2021. 'Those are the money-making fights, those guys got 35 million people to watch.

He's also opened up about past drug use, which he said centered on cocaine, but also included the venom from a poisonous toad that he said actually left him legally dead for a brief moment.

'In my trips I've seen that death is beautiful,' Tyson told the New York Post recently. 'Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that I'm not going to be here forever. There's an expiration date.

'I did it as a dare,' Tyson sad of ingesting the psychedelic. 'I was doing heavy drugs like cocaine, so why not? It's another dimension. Before I did the toad, I was a wreck. The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego.'

A year ago, Tyson stepped into the ring for an exhibition against former multi-weight division title-winner Roy Jones Jr. The WBC unofficially called the bout a draw.

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