Mike Tyson involved in scuffle with annoying passenger on JetBlue

Geoffrey Thomas

By Geoffrey Thomas Fri Apr 22, 2022

Famous boxer Mike Tyson has been involved in a scuffle with an annoying passenger on a JetBlue flight to London. Website TMZ has the video which you can see here. Apparently, the man was seated in the row behind him and clearly was annoying Mike Tyson and did not stop despite being asked to, a reported, several times. Fox News reported that "a witness on the plane told TMZ that the former heavyweight champ Mike Tyson was initially cordial to fans asking for photographs but one man continued talking in Tyson’s ear which appeared to irritate him before punches flew. SEE the podcast: Flight Safety Detectives dissect the Netflix doco “Downfall”. READ: Etihad Airways unveils its new A350 READ: Can the giant AN-225 fly again? "A source reportedly told TMZ that the man who approached Mike Tyson was extremely intoxicated." "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 Fox Business in a statement. TMZ reported that the man who was punched received medical attention and went to the police following the incident. ABOUT AirlineRatings.com Airlineratings.com was developed to provide everyone in the world a one-stop shop for everything related to airlines, formed by a team of aviation editors, who have forensically researched nearly every airline in the world. Our rating system is rated from one to seven stars on safety – with seven being the highest ranking. Within each airline, you will find the country of origin, airline code, booking URL, and seat map information. The rating system takes into account a number of different factors related to audits from aviation’s governing bodies, lead associations, as well as the airlines, own safety data. Every airline has a safety rating breakdown so you can see exactly how they rate. Over 230 of the airlines on the site that carry 99 percent of the world’s passengers have a product rating. Given that low cost, regional and full-service carriers are so different we have constructed a different rating system for each which can be found within each airline.

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