Boxing nice Mike Tyson not too long ago reacted to the intercourse trafficking case involving Sean “Diddy” Combs.
At one level throughout a dialog with the Each day Mail, Tyson provided his finest needs to the incarcerated music mogul.Â
“Wait, I’m synonymous with Diddy? Effectively, that’s cool,” Tyson responded when he was knowledgeable his identify had been related to the file govt. “I by no means knew that.” Tyson was then requested if he needed to share something additional. “I want him one of the best. In life, I want him one of the best,” the previous world heavyweight champion replied.
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Sept. 15, 2024: Boxer Mike Tyson on the sector earlier than the sport between the Dallas Cowboys and New Orleans Saints at AT&T Stadium. (Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Photographs)
The interview with Tyson was revealed on Friday. Whereas Tyson has made quite a few appearances alongside Combs through the years and has been photographed with the rapper, there may be nothing on the file immediately tying Tyson to any of the alleged unlawful actions.
Fox Information Digital contacted Tyson’s representatives for additional remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
Mike Tyson and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs throughout Celeb Sightings at Felix Trinidad Versus Ricardo Mayorga Combat at Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis. (Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Throughout a 2023 look on the “PBD Podcast” podcast, Tyson jokingly referred to Combs as “Sugar Diddy.”Â
When podcast host Patrick Guess-David asserted that “so many individuals in music and Hollywood feared this man ‘Diddy’, as if he’s untouchable,” Tyson responded, “Oh, sugar Diddy.”
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Tyson then confirmed that he had identified Combs “for a very long time.”
“Simply . . .I knew him for a very long time,” Tyson stated when Guess-David requested the boxer about his earlier experiences with Combs. “Superior man. I knew him earlier than he was Diddy and for a very long time. Once I first grew to become champ, I knew him.”
Tyson additionally recalled his expertise partying with Combs.
“I bear in mind him he used to have crates when he’s at my after-parties and stuff. Additionally after they had been throwing events,” Tyson shared.
In the meantime, Tyson continues to arrange for his extremely anticipated struggle with Jake Paul.
The boxing match was initially scheduled to happen on July 20 in Arlington, Texas. However Tyson skilled well being problems throughout the summer time, which pressured the postponement. The bout was finally rescheduled to Nov. 15.
Mike Tyson and Jake Paul maintain a press convention throughout Fanatics Fest NYC at Javits Middle on August 18, 2024, in New York Metropolis. (John Nacion/Getty Photographs)
Tyson, as soon as generally known as “the baddest man on the planet,” has not fought competitively since his TKO loss to Kevin McBride in 2005. He did compete in an exhibition match with Roy Jones Jr. in July 2020.
Combs, 54, has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his Sept. 16 arrest on expenses that he used his “energy and status” as a music star to induce feminine victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male intercourse employees in occasions dubbed “Freak Offs.”
The arrest and indictment adopted a months-long intercourse trafficking investigation and 10 months after a flurry of girls got here ahead with allegations of sexual and different abuse.
Sean “Diddy” Combs attends Day 1 of the 2023 Make investments Fest at Georgia World Congress Middle on August 26, 2023, in Atlanta, Georgia. (Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs)
On Friday, a federal appeals court docket decide dominated to maintain Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up whereas he makes a 3rd bid for bail in his intercourse trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in Might.
In a choice filed on Oct. 11, Circuit Choose William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop mogul’s fast launch from jail whereas a three-judge panel weighs his bail request. Combs’ legal professionals appealed to the U.S. Courtroom of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Sept. 30 after two judges rejected his bid for launch.
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Combs has pleaded not responsible to racketeering conspiracy and intercourse trafficking expenses alleging he coerced and abused ladies for years with assist from a community of associates and staff whereas silencing victims by means of blackmail and violence, together with kidnapping, arson and bodily beatings.
 The Related Press contributed to this report.Â
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