Mike Tyson reveals he ‘almost died’ in emotional post on Twitter in aftermath of his loss to Jake Paul on Netflix

MIKE TYSON revealed helium "almost died" by a wellness scare earlier his arguable combat with Jake Paul.

Tyson, 58, lost his instrumentality fight against the overmuch younger Paul, 27, who won via unanimous determination connected Friday astatine the AT&T Stadium successful Texas.

Iron Mike went done each of the 8 rounds contempt his precocious property but was defeated connected points against the YouTuber turned boxer connected Netflix.

The combat was initially scheduled to instrumentality spot connected July 20 but the heavyweight fable suffered a aesculapian exigency connected committee a formation arsenic a effect of an ulcer flare up that postponed the fight.

Tyson took to societal media to stock a touching connection revealing his wellness took a nosedive and that astir outgo his beingness successful June.

The American said helium mislaid fractional his humor arsenic good arsenic 25lbs (1.8st) and required EIGHT humor transfusions.

However, the erstwhile heavyweight champion is grateful for the accidental to instrumentality to the ringing contempt the outcome.

Tyson tweeted: "This is 1 of those situations erstwhile you mislaid but inactive won. I’m grateful for past night. No regrets to get successful ringing 1 past time.

"I astir died successful June. Had 8 humor transfusions. Lost fractional my humor and 25lbs successful infirmary and had to combat to get steadfast to combat truthful I won.

"To person my children spot maine basal toed to toed and decorativeness 8 rounds with a talented combatant fractional my property successful beforehand of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an acquisition that nary antheral has the close to inquire for. Thank you."

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This isn't the archetypal clip Tyson goes into item astir the wellness scare helium suffered.

The Baddest Man connected the Planet added that this full situation did impact his grooming up of the combat with Paul.

Tyson antecedently said: "I was successful the bath throwing up blood. I asked the doctor, ‘Am I going to die?’ He said, ‘We person options'. Options? I couldn’t judge it.

"I had, like, 8 humor transfusions. The doc said I mislaid fractional my blood. I astir died.

“I mislaid 25 pounds successful 11 days. Couldn’t eat. Only liquids. Every clip I went to the bathroom, it smelled similar tar. Didn’t adjacent odor similar s*** anymore. It was disgusting.

“It threw maine disconnected [when I continued training]. All my coordination, stamina, everything was hectic getting back. I was peaked already. I could person fought him that day. Now I got to commencement from scratch.

“I conscionable don’t springiness up. I’m an a****** sometimes. I’m a d***. If I haven’t outlived my enemies, I’ve turned them into my friends.”