{"id":197557,"date":"2025-10-13T17:36:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:36:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:36:18","slug":"mike-tyson-gets-straight-to-the-point-on-why-he-never-considered-ufc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/197557\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson gets straight to the point on why he never considered UFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/mike-tyson-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson<\/a> never considered an MMA career for one main reason \u2014 money.<\/p>\n<p>When Tyson was asked by hip-hop artist Fat Joe during a conversation on Hard Rock Bet if he ever considered fighting in UFC,  he said, \u201cFive of the biggest UFC fighters combined couldn\u2019t match my pay. I want to be the biggest fighter, the biggest purse, I want all that stuff. When Mike Tyson fights, he shuts everything down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only UFC fighter who\u2019s ever come close to cashing in on Tyson-levels of paychecks is former two-division champion Conor McGregor. <\/p>\n<p>While Tyson was an active fighter from 1997-2005, the UFC heavyweight champions were Mark Coleman, Maurice Smith, Randy Couture, Bas Rutten, Kevin Randleman, Randy Couture, Josh Barnett, Ricco Rodriguez, Tim Sylvia, Frank Mir and Andrei Arlovski.<\/p>\n<p>The closest Tyson ever got to a crossover clash was against Bob Sapp, but that fight never came to fruition. Tyson has, however, been featured as a playable character in recent years for the UFC video game produced by EA Sports. <\/p>\n<p>The former heavyweight champion and boxing icon is preparing for a second installment of his one-man stage show, as well as an <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/news\/mike-tyson-floyd-mayweather-agree-terms-for-spring-2026-exhibition\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exhibition<\/a> against <a class=\"underline hover:text-redColor\" href=\"https:\/\/ringmagazine.com\/en\/fighters\/floyd-mayweather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Floyd Mayweather<\/a>, which is set to take place sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p>Manouk Akopyan is The Ring\u2019s lead writer. Follow him on X and Instagram: @ManoukAkopyan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson never considered an MMA career for one main reason \u2014 money. When Tyson was asked by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,6842,6836,6841,6840,6834,6102,6837,6838,6839,6835,6588,6847,6846,6830,6828,6829,6844,6831,6827,6848,6843,101,6845,6826,6833,56,54,55,6832],"class_list":{"0":"post-197557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-boxing-community","10":"tag-boxing-fights","11":"tag-boxing-history","12":"tag-boxing-interviews","13":"tag-boxing-magazine","14":"tag-boxing-news","15":"tag-boxing-photos","16":"tag-boxing-rankings","17":"tag-boxing-schedule","18":"tag-boxing-videos","19":"tag-boxing-results","20":"tag-disqualification","21":"tag-draw","22":"tag-fight","23":"tag-fighter","24":"tag-fighter-news","25":"tag-knockout","26":"tag-latest-boxing-matches","27":"tag-ring","28":"tag-ring-magazine","29":"tag-split-decision","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-technical-knockout","32":"tag-the-ring","33":"tag-top-fighters","34":"tag-uk","35":"tag-united-kingdom","36":"tag-unitedkingdom","37":"tag-upcoming-boxing-matches"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}