ICHEOKU says he was provoked but it appears that he overreacted and the punches thrown were overly excessive, especially coming from a former world heavyweight boxing champion. He could have easily killed the poor little rascal who taunted him into losing his cool and would have been defending himself now from a possible manslaughter charge. Luckily enough the provocateur lived to see another day, admitted he learnt a bitter ugly lesson on how not to mess with a tiger, particularly a human tiger named Mike Tyson with a clearly marked facial tattoo implicitly warning irritants to stay the heck out of his way.
One dirty slap on the face or even a punch in the mouth would have been sufficient and enough to register his disapproval of the guy's nuisance. He was minding his own business, sitting quietly on his seat in a Florida Miami bound Jet Blue airplane at San Francisco's SFO airport waiting for takeoff when the lunatic launched into tirades or unwanted disturbances at Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson was therefore right to defend himself but whether his reaction went beyond the initial provocation is a matter to be decided later by the court should the guy bring an action for personal injury against Mike Tyson as he has already declined prosecution for the crime of assault.
The foolish fella who ventured into a tiger's cage and poked the tiger was either too inebriated to appreciate the danger he walked himself into or he was too young to know the history of Mike Tyson's feats of fury and fists full of thunderous punches. He was too stupid to know that those fists have dropped so many heavy weight boxers within seconds. He also was too stupefied to realize that he was poking the bear and that as Evander Holyfield would attest, that Mike Tyson chopping his ear off inside the plane was also a possibility as well. The guy was completely at fault and it shows that his act was bereft of his mind otherwise which sane fella would have ventured to mess with Iron Mike.
Anyway, his bloodied face now bears testimony to what stupidity can cause a person. Hopefully, he did not suffer any broken facial bones or at least, he has not disclosed that information just yet. The next time the fella wants to mess with someone in an airplane or any other place else, he would pause to think what the repercussions might be, especially if it is someone he does not know their background and whether they are black-belters in karate or other martial arts sports or in the case of Iron Mike Tyson, a former badass world heavyweight boxer whose opponents barely lasted beyond seconds from the opening bell's first round.
Mike Tyson has delivered a very strong message to all those irascible fellas who often act out on airplanes, especially after drinking more than their liver could comfortably handle. Frequent fights by passengers on airplanes are a very common occurrence flying around in America's airspace. Unlike Samuel Jackson's 'Snakes on Airplane', our airplanes are filled with angry irritable passengers who regularly blow their gaskets, putting everyone on board at risk of harm; and sometimes leading to unplanned delay caused by diversion of such airplanes to get rid of them by handing them over to law enforcement officials.
Such irritable nuisance should stop. It should be discouraged and stopped, if need be, through self help just as Mike Tyson has shown an example of. His fists flew at the guy's face with such a velocity that only a speed camera would have done justice in capturing them as they rained thunder and brimstone on the poor fella's face. They are still the same fists of fury that once mesmerized boxing fans throughout the world and the nasty fella must have felt their full force as they landed. No sane person messes with a tiger or plays with fire and the fella got burnt. There will not be a next time for Melvin Townsend III repeat of such idiocy as he now knows never to venture where angels fear to tread.
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Christy 'Apena' Essien-Igbokwe , the wife of Jegede Shokoya of the New Masquerade and Nigeria's lady of songs is dead; she was 51years old. Although her family claimed that "brief Illness" killed her like so many Nigerians; Icheoku retorts that it was most likely AKwa Ibom voodoo and remote control that was used to arrest her. It is on record that she had fallen out with the governor of her native Akwa Ibiom State and have been having a relentless war for political turf with the governor? So who knows whether she was sacrificed to Ekpe cult or even Alusi-Okija as an offal; afterall African science is still very much alive and portent. May her soul rest in peace.
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