Saturday night’s heavyweight championship bout between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder attracted a bevy of celebrities and sports stars. As tends to be commonplace at these major events, cameras are everywhere.
But that doesn’t mean Mike Tyson wanted to be filmed.
A cameraperson with Bleacher Report Betting was following around former NFL wide receiver Chad Johnson for the fight in Las Vegas. And in one of the back rooms — presumably, a media room (you can see a credentialing station and a Golden Knights staffer) — at MGM Grand Garden Arena, Johnson ran into Tyson and greeted the boxing icon.
They couldn’t even fully exchange pleasantries before a suddenly furious Tyson noticed a phone pointed at him and started to confront the person filming. Then, Chad stepped in. (Warning: NSFW language)
Johnson explained that the cameraperson was with him, and Tyson was suddenly cool with it — ending what was probably the most terrifying second of this cameraperson’s life. Tyson basically flipped a switch over a camera in a media hospitality room — a place where you should expect to see cameras.
That was a close call.
