WATCH: Tyson elbows fan who gets too close for comfort | Inquirer Sports

WATCH: Tyson elbows fan who gets too close for comfort

By: - Reporter / @BLozadaINQ
/ 02:34 PM May 02, 2015

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson attends the weigh-in for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao on Friday, May 1, 2015 in Las Vegas. The world weltherweight title fight between Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao is scheduled for May 2. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson attends the weigh-in for Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao on Friday, May 1, 2015 in Las Vegas. The world weltherweight title fight between Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao is scheduled for May 2. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Never assume that a retired heavyweight champion is your friend.

Especially if that boxer was once called “The Baddest Man Alive.”

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For one fan, however, he assumed Mike Tyson was his friend. He wasn’t.

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In a YouTube clip, a man in a pink buttoned shirt wrapped his arm around Tyson during the weigh-in for the fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.

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Tyson, who as this article said was and probably is “The Baddest Man Alive,” did not like the fan’s action and elbowed him twice in the chest.

It looked all good for the fan since he had chuckle afterward and he can tell his grand kids that he survived two elbows from “The Baddest Man Alive.”

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