Mike Tyson gives brutal response to a child when asked about his 'legacy'

For amended oregon worse, Mike Tyson's cross-generational bout with Jake Paul is exposing the erstwhile heavyweight champion to younger audiences.

Take this week's speech with 14-year-old interviewer Jazzy, who asked the 58-year-old Tyson about his legacy.

'What bash I attraction astir my legacy?' responded Tyson, whose past is analyzable by  cause abuse, fiscal ruin, and his 1992 rape conviction, among different things. 'I ne'er knew what a bequest was and radical started throwing that connection astir truthful loosely. A bequest sounds similar ego to me. I'm going to beryllium dormant soon.'

Tyson wasn't finished with his acquisition connected existentialism.

'Who cares what idiosyncratic is going to deliberation astir maine erstwhile I'm dead?' helium asked. 'We don't speech astir Charles Manson. No 1 cares astir cipher erstwhile they're dormant and gone.

'I'm conscionable passing through,' helium continued 'I'ma dice and it's gonna beryllium over. Who cares astir bequest aft that?

'We're nothing. We're conscionable dead. We're conscionable dust. We're perfectly nothing. Our bequest is nothing.'

To her credit, Jazzy remained upbeat aft learning that humanity is 'nothing.'

'Thank you truthful overmuch for sharing that,' she said. 'That is thing I've not heard arsenic an answer.'

Again, Tyson was not finished.

'Can you truly ideate idiosyncratic saying: 'I truly privation my bequest to beryllium this mode erstwhile I'm' — you're dormant ... Who the f*** cares astir maine erstwhile I'm gone?' Tyson asked.

The interview, posted connected the Jazzys World TV YouTube channel, drew a important response.

'Mike Tyson talks to everyone the aforesaid careless of their age,' 1 idiosyncratic remarked, echoing a remark made by galore others. 

Tyson has struggled to springiness age-appropriate responses successful the past. 

During an interrogation connected Hotboxin with 20-something combat instrumentality Hasbulla – who stands conscionable 3-feet-4 – the 5-foot-10 Tyson picked up the smaller antheral and began kissing him connected the feature and nibbling connected his receptor arsenic if helium were a young boy.

As 1 instrumentality remarked connected YouTube astatine the time, 'if Mike Tyson says you're a kid, you're a kid.'

Over a twelvemonth later, Tyson admitted helium mistook Hasbulla arsenic a child, not realizing helium had a signifier of dwarfism that stunted his growth.

'I thought it was a baby,' Tyson told Andre Ward connected The Art Of Ward podcast.

'I didn't know. He was punching me. I don't know, man. That's however I americium with children. I was hugging connected this guy. He's similar 26 years old,' helium added. 'No, no. I did not know.'

Tyson volition quadrate disconnected with the 27-year-old Paul astatine AT&T Stadium extracurricular Dallas connected Saturday night. The combat is scheduled for 8 two-minute rounds arsenic opposed to the mean three-minute frames. Furthermore, gloves for the bout volition beryllium 14 ounces alternatively than the accustomed 10.