Former WBA, WBC, and IBF Heavyweight Boxing Champion 'Iron' Mike Tyson assisted WWE in gaining massive public recognition during the Attitude Period, first following a clash with burgeoning megastar 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin that made international headlines.
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Mike Tyson would later join part of D-Generation X before Shawn Michaels’ WWF Championship defense against Austin at WrestleMania 14. Tyson would finally expose his true colors during the match in which he acted as a Special Enforcer, eventually making the three count that saw ‘The Texan Rattlesnake’ raise his first WWE Championship. Yet, one WWE Hall of Famer recently disclosed that Tyson would have been involved in WWE issues before that date if Vince McMahon had his way.
Former WWE Champion Kevin Nash said on a recent episode of his podcast Kliq This that Vince McMahon wanted him to box fellow WWE Hall Of Famer Tyson in a charity match to be staged in New York’s Central Park: “He (Vince McMahon) had told me that I wasn’t going to lose the championship for years. No matter what, I wasn’t going to lose the championship for years. Then he starts telling me about this idea he had where I’m going to box Mike Tyson in Central Park and it’s for charity.
He’s going on and on about this. I said to him, ‘Mike Tyson will knock me the f**k out. He could conceivably kill me.’ I’m a boxing fan. A big motherfu**er like me, he can put two or three fu**ing shots, he does the fu**ing old hook to the body, hook to the body, uppercut. Goodnight Irene. It’s not going to do me any favors.”
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Nash, who wrestled in WWE as Diesel at the time, went on to say that his unwillingness to face Tyson may have prompted McMahon to vacate the WWE Championship:
“I said, ‘I’m not fu**ing fighting him for less than five million dollars. We go back and forth. Then he clears his throat and says, ‘By the way, you’re going to drop the belt to Bret at Survivor Series.’
I said, ‘You fu**ing sat here for 45 minutes and told me this fu**ing horses*t about boxing Mike Tyson to fu**ing tell me that you want me to drop the fu**ing strap to Bret. Motherfu**er, you could have done that on a goddam telephone.’ Like, I don’t care. You can have it. Are you kidding me?”
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