Mike Tyson to return to stage with 'Return of the Mike' one-man show

Boxing fable Mike Tyson is heading backmost to the signifier to execute his latest one-man show, "Return of the Mike," exclusively astatine 4 Hard Rock Live venues crossed the state opening successful November, representatives for Tyson and Hard Rock International told ESPN connected Monday.

News of Tyson's instrumentality to the signifier comes connected the heels of past week's announcement that the 59-year-old erstwhile heavyweight champion volition instrumentality connected Floyd Mayweather Jr., 48, in an accumulation combat adjacent spring. Tyson's caller amusement volition people the archetypal clip that Tyson has performed connected signifier since his 36-city, three-month nationalist circuit for "Mike Tyson: The Undisputed Truth" successful 2013. Like "The Undisputed Truth," his caller amusement volition beryllium broadcast connected a "major planetary streaming platform" successful 2026, according to Tyson and Hard Rock International representatives, with the taping for that amusement taking spot connected Dec. 14 successful Hollywood, Florida.

"A batch has happened since the past clip I did a one-man show," Tyson told ESPN. "I get to archer you guys astir each of my caller lawsuits that you don't cognize astir and immoderate different beauteous breathtaking worldly that has happened successful my life. It'll beryllium precise exciting, beauteous riveting, a fewer bittersweet stories and a wholly antithetic penetration connected the things that you whitethorn person already known about."

Tyson revealed that helium has been penning alongside his wife, Lakiha "Kiki" Tyson, the past fewer years and calls his latest amusement a "no-filter self-analyzation" that volition delve into his experiences with addiction and intelligence wellness on with candid idiosyncratic stories and reflections astir his celebrated boxing career. He besides told ESPN that helium would speech successful extent astir his caller record-breaking boxing lucifer with Jake Paul and his wellness issues heading into the fight, including an ulcer flare-up aboard an airplane that delayed the combat from July to November.

"There are truthful galore things I'm going to speech astir with that fight," Tyson said. "I didn't cognize however unsafe an ulcer was. I thought it was going to calm down successful an hr oregon two, but I passed retired connected the plane. I was conscionable bleeding everywhere. There was truthful overmuch blood. They had to halt the formation and instrumentality maine to the hospital."

Tyson said doctors were hesitant to wide him to combat Paul, but his wellness wasn't a interest the nighttime of the fight. He was frightened of thing other entirely.

"It was scary [walking to the ringing that night], due to the fact that I hadn't walked retired for a nonrecreational combat [in beforehand of a crowd] successful 20 years and I wasn't prepared for each the emotion the fans gave maine that night. It overwhelmed me," said Tyson, whose 2020 accumulation against Roy Jones Jr. astatine the Staples Center successful Los Angeles had nary assemblage due to the fact that of Covid-19 restrictions. "But successful each actuality, that combat could person ne'er taken place. The doctors didn't privation the combat to hap [after the ulcer flared up]. But erstwhile I was cleared, I was all-in."

While preparing for his latest show, Tyson volition besides person to get successful signifier for his combat with Mayweather. He admitted that grooming for a combat arsenic helium approaches his 60th day is difficult, but preparing to execute connected signifier by himself is besides a daunting task.

"[Preparing for the signifier and preparing for a fight] are dormant even," Tyson said of the enactment that goes into his show. "But what I recovered retired is that athletes similar myself and entertainers are capable to execute due to the fact that we similar the pressure. So being connected stage, talking and acting is nothing."

The four-city circuit kicks disconnected connected Nov. 9 astatine Hard Rock Casino successful Rockford, Illinois. Tyson volition past caput to Cincinnati for his 2nd amusement connected Nov. 23. He volition execute astatine Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino successful Hollywood, Florida, connected Dec. 14 for a peculiar taping successful beforehand of a unrecorded assemblage earlier making his last halt astatine Hard Rock Hotel & Casino successful Atlantic City, New Jersey, connected Jan. 23, 2026.

"As the arrogant big of 'Return of the Mike,' this amusement volition adhd to Hard Rock's bequest arsenic a curator of one-of-a-kind experiences," Keith Sheldon, president of amusement and marque astatine Hard...