 Now once you stopped him in the first fight the second fight is the fight That's probably the most famous fight because he bit a chunk of your ear off And I saw it when you're coming in here show everybody that Did you ever think about getting that fixed well no, you know, no, that's my identification That is right if you want to get into somewhere, do you know I am look at my hair. Yeah, that's crazy Man, that was one of the craziest moments when Mills Lane looked at you and you were jumping up in the air and Looked at Tyson and realized holy shit. He bit a chunk out of your fucking ear. Right like what? What were you thinking at that time? biting them back I'm serious I'll get ready to bite the daylights out of him and I'll combine them in the face I'll bite his face. I wouldn't wait for the ear. I'm gonna get the fat stuff, you know come You know when you're from the ghetto They say if you do something you got to do it worse than what they did, right? And so, you know and I told Mike and talk show I said no I said no I'll pretend it like and like I would hurt real bad I thought but I'm gonna trip you up and bite you ready in your face. Everybody know what I was gonna do. I said but Yeah, this this prophet told us before the fight He told me he said look He's gonna do something in your face area that you but you got to stay focused cause if If you don't stay focused God, that's the only way he gonna get you So by him biting me on my ear when a man and I knew I'll get ready to bite him back and And but my corner person So started telling me keep my mind on the Lord and because the the the the prophet told me say Only way he can get you to get your mind He gonna do something to you, right? I thought he gonna hit me with elbow a hip, but anything like that, but I Never ever thought in my life He would bite him on the ear and bite a chunky ear and it hurts so bad and people something How bad did it hurt? I said did you see how high I jumped? I Said no, it was crazy. You just leaped up in the air Yeah, that hurt so bad and I said then I said then That guy my corner guy Tim Hallmark would kept telling me keep my mind on the Lord and I ain't want to hear that You know, even though he was saying that and I was man. I was still I was just trying to Remember that get him. I want to bite him. I was I Really wanted to bite him back and and all of a sudden I hit my mind that They always catch the second person Right, I'm telling you anything in life and I'm the one that people always did something to them They will always catch me and I'm the only one to get get caught all the time because they always catch me trying to Get to get back So revenge is the Lord. So you don't go get back cuz you're gonna get caught Yeah, I was amazed that they didn't stop the fight immediately Well, they came back and check and he asked me you all right and I said, yeah I At least wanted to hit him, right? I really wanted to hit him. I was I was really upset Well, he tried to bite you twice, right? Well, yeah, he bit me twice He bit you but it bit me when we went back in and he thought I was gonna be scared And he seen I caught him with these two shots and he bit me again Man, and I jumped back and I just get ready to kick him in a ball And a bell roar and I went back to the corner boy, and I was so doggone mad I was I was really gonna get him and they stopped the fight. Yeah And then I got mad because they stopped the fight Cuz you were gonna get him. I wanted to get him back Well, it seemed like he thought that you were gonna get him and he was trying to find a way out well That's the only thing that made sense. Well, yeah, but the thing is the only thing that I guess With me and what I stand on is that I was able to forgive him and that's that has been the turnaround in my life to tend to make people People always wonder about the ear but the ear bite and I said but I forgave it and everybody said So what's special about that eyes, but everywhere I go around the world With the Muslim of whatever and people said wow this guy can forgive How can you forgive when you already beaten the guy? Yeah, I said, but you know, but it's It's what it's what life have to be if you're gonna survive with even your brothers and sisters Because if you don't forgive nobody you're gonna be a mad person You're gonna find yourself locked up right right and it's gonna haunt you. Yes, if you forgave him It took a weight off your shoulders. Yes. I'm time. I'm tired Mike and I we do a lot of things together because They're forgiving this part. It's cool to see you two together now I mean when when I have seen things that you've done together I'm like wow It's crazy like after he bit you those crazy fights and to see you together Laughing and joking around together. It's it's pretty interesting. Well, I mean when you tell people, you know When you don't choose your parents, you don't choose your neighborhood You ain't choose your skin color. You ain't choose to be tall to short but you know, this is your statue and and two people two people came from the ghetto who boxed and Box was the only thing I did real well Okay, and football and but the thing is that after all that look at much money We may doing something that we by doing it properly. We make money. Yeah, we make money and we can both you know Raise our family in the way that we want to raise them. How long did it take after the fight before you forgave them? But yeah, I think after about about time nine I got into the locker room and Everybody struck complaining. I can't believe he did this. This is this. I said look, I said did he bite you? They said no, okay. I said he bit me right and I said now I'm gonna forgive it And you know what y'all got to forgive him, too They said what you mean for giving I say he ain't bite you. I said that mean I said like I'm gonna forgive it Wow So you forgave him in the locker room right after the fight. Yes because the thing is the thing is I You know I was really mad coming coming down and people throwing water and people man and they upset because They ain't get a chance to see what they really wanted to see right like this And so they were mad and they were upset and and I asked you know me I figured Who in control God so I said Lord what is this thing all about it? He said forgive me And I said who in the world want to forget but this is what it is We we're the two very important people they everybody come to see and they need to know that forgiveness is a big part of life And so I was able to do that so in the point of being able to do that You know, I I realized that it made my life better all over the world You know the Kleenex Kleenex. Yeah, sure That's a very powerful thing man. It really is that's a very powerful decision And you know, it's a very powerful statement, you know to for you to forgive him after that I mean that really That probably did a lot of good for a lot of people to realize man If Evander Holyfield can forgive Mike Tyson after he bit a chunk of his ear off. I mean that's a that's a strong statement of character right there Why you're not the thing is I didn't know a Little earlier than that. They may not would have got that they would have got some But but but It's just amazing how what time would do for you, right, right at one point in time I'm something something would have happened, right But because they gave me a little time to think about and gave me and and I was like and you know And you know with me when when things Don't go, right? I go back to the prayers of the Lord. What is so ball all about right and he said forgiveness and you know and I Wouldn't be who I am is it wasn't from forgiveness everybody on fell short somewhere, right? And like that. So, you know the whole big thing is and and I talked to the week a week after that I talked to Mike we were We we's at the all-star basketball game in New York, and I Looked up and everybody was streaming. I wonder what they're streaming about telling me to watch out. I'm like watch out for who I Looked up or Mike and he had the big bad coat and he like this and so everybody was telling me That and it wanted me that Mike Mike there he had a big bear skin coat No, you know he had a big fur coat that big fur coat and the stuff like that And he wouldn't do nothing shake hands and wow and a week after a week after you know I'm so you know ears probably still sore No, no, I want even that the thing is with my ear my ears almost like a testimony Right, and you know, it's almost like you in a trophy yourself They're a person looking said man. He became the guy so I see that more people when they see me They look at my ear Then that's they see me other than a smile like you're not in anger. They smile and say well, you know me He became that guy. Wow. So when you saw Mike, did you guys talk? Yeah? Yeah a week after the fight Yeah, what do you say to you? Matter of fact his his room with next door to my I didn't know We came we came out we we come out at the same time. He looked he looked he asked me this is all good I said, yeah, so we get on the elevator And we come down with a door open everybody was shocked So they were shocked one the while we wasn't fight right Just you two in the elevator Just you two in the elevator. Yeah, so and so at the shotgun part and they said Man and we thought they would be fighting and I told the guys man I said, you know how much money I got paid in that fight how much money can you think we go fight for fruit? Was ever talk about a third fight But then I have people mention it, you know, they they mention it right and but you know I'm the thing is is that they want to give a lot of money and they were asking me to Try to and that my own thing is that I Kind of feel like it's kind of bully for you to ask somebody to fight to fight you again when You know, you're gonna win again, right? I'm so you know, so the whole big thing is you know I just didn't I didn't think they if Mike is Mike wanted to do it I would have done it, but I wasn't gonna go as I think I think you've been a bully when you know You're better than somebody and you want to you want to play them in something that you know, you're gonna beat them Right, right, you know, it's a challenge is somebody challenge you think that I can come back and beat you but you know Just just you know, you feel that you better and so I think it'd be wrong for me to ask it, right? No, that's that's amazing I mean, but that just shows what kind of a person you are like it shows What kind of character you have and that sort of defines your career that you are the guy that did always seek the big challenges Yeah