Vince McMahon is an incredible powerful, articulate yet utterly bonkers human being. He has a thought process like no other and he has a mind that works in a totally different way.
He is the genius who masterminded the growth of professional wrestling/sports entertainment but also has a long list of crazy ideas.
One of those, according to five-time WCW World Heavyweight champion Kevin Nash, was to have Nash fight Heavyweight champion Boxer Mike Tyson in Central Park for charity.
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Tyson made several appearances for WWE, including acting as the special guest enforcer in the WWF Championship match between Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold Steve Austin at Wrestlemania 14, but McMahon desperately wanted him earlier for a big match against Nash, one of his top stars at the time.
Nash revealed the news in an interview with Sports Illustrated:
He said:
"They brought me up to WWE Headquarters, which was called Titan Tower at the time, and Vince went into this elaborate idea of me fighting Mike Tyson in Central Park. I asked him, 'How much am I going to get paid?' Vince said it was for charity, and I said, 'Fuck. I ain't fighting Mike Tyson and getting knocked the fuck out for charity.' Then he told me, 'By the way, you're going to drop the strap to Bret at Survivor Series because we're going to put it on Shawn at WrestleMania.'
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"It was an incredible smoke and mirrors move. So, I asked him, we just went over a bunch of horses for an hour to distract me? I didn't care about losing the belt or getting it back. I'm not a mark. If you want to beat me, beat me as long as I can turn my character back after I get beat."
Tyson definitely didn't do his other WWE appearances for free, much like Floyd Mayweather when he had a match with the Big Show at Wrestlemania 24.
We're not expecting Conor McGregor to do anything WWE-related on the cheap either.
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