Mike Tyson Knocks A Shark To Sleep In Discovery Channel’s ‘Tyson VS. Jaws: Rumble On The Reef’ (Photo Credit: Instagram/Mike Tyson & Twitter)
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After teasing us with a possible return to boxing, Mike Tyson recently made news for deciding to take on a new and different opponent. The former boxer was recently ‘pitted’ against sharks in Discovery Channel’s Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble On The Reef, where he took on the predators in a three-round format.
UFC President Dana White and announcer Michael Buffer helped set the stage. Tyson worked with scientists to get more comfortable in a location that features lemon sharks, reef sharks, bull sharks and more.
Mike Tyson took to Twitter and shared a video gif from his stunt. He tweeted: “I can’t tell you how many times I asked myself this question during this dive. #SharkWeek” The gif had the text ‘What the hell am I doing?” written on it.
The third round required Tyson to put the shark to sleep with his bare hands. While tonic immobility is not exactly a knockout, it was still quite the task. Tonic immobility is a situation that causes a temporary state of inactivity in sharks.
The tension and fear were all the quite evident as Iron Mike threw up before diving nearly 50 feet underwater without a cage. He eventually pulled it off and won against the shark.
Mike Tyson is not the first athlete to go up against a shark as part of Shark Week. Olympic legend, swimmer Michael Phelps lost a virtual race to a great white shark in 2017.
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