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Watch: Mike Tyson on the Cliftonville Rd<\/p>\n
Former boxing champion Mike Tyson was mobbed by a crowd of fans after visiting a friend\u2019s home in north Belfast earlier this afternoon. <\/p>\n
The 59-year-old New Yorker \u2013 nicknamed Iron Mike \u2013 competed for almost 40 years and is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweights in the history of boxing.<\/p>\n
While Belfast boasts its own collection of champion fighters, crowds were still left surprised after the fighter emerged from a property on the Cliftonville Road and was understood to be visiting a close friend in the area who both share a passion for pigeons.<\/p>\n
It is understood Tyson was also filming a documentary around their intertest in roller pigeons \u2013 a domesticated bred type of pigeon that has been selected for its ability to tumble or roll in the air.<\/p>\n
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A large crowd gathered outside the property<\/p>\n
Word quickly spread of the US-born fighter\u2019s presence and a large crowd gathered outside as he was exiting the property.<\/p>\n
Tyson was shielded by his security guard as he was escorted through the assortment of largely young fans.<\/p>\n
Tyson had a glittering career in the sport which saw him become the youngest heavyweight boxing champion in history at the age of 20.<\/p>\n
He was also the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles in 1987.<\/p>\n
He won 50 of his 56 contests before retiring in 2005.<\/p>\n
Despite his acclaim, the boxer was convicted of rape in Indiana back in 1992, serving three years of a six-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n
In recent years he has made a brief comeback, including in 2024 when he was beaten by Youtuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch: Mike Tyson on the Cliftonville Rd Former boxing champion Mike Tyson was mobbed by a crowd of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[182748,64,63,802,19849,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-325394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-abdullah-sabri","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-boxing","12":"tag-north-belfast-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}