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Mike Tyson Speaks On Muhammed Ali And Working With Steve Austin

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Mike Tyson recently did a Q&A with SI.com about Muhammed Ali and wrestling. Here are the highlights.

SI.com: You and Ali share a unique connection in wrestling, as both of you played significant roles at WrestleMania. Ali added a great deal of excitement to the inaugural WrestleMania, and you appearance was extremely significant for WWE at WrestleMania XIV. Did you ever discuss wrestling with Ali?

“Wrestling was important to both of us. Gorgeous George from wrestling is where Ali got his style. Gorgeous George always wore that blonde wig and said, ‘I’m beautiful, baby. Get away from me, you disgusting bugs. You might give me flees. I’m beautiful. Don’t touch me, you pigs!’ He said everybody hated him and was jealous of him because of that, and Ali said,‘Woah, that’s how this guy made a lot of money.’ That’s how Ali learned that – he saw how Gorgeous George made the money. They always booed him, but he always looked good, had the money, and talked s—.”

SI.com: Did “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, who you worked with at WrestleMania XIV in Boston, remind you at all of Ali with his trash-talking?

“Absolutely, I thought about Ali immediately. Wrestling means a lot to me. Getting inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame is one of my greatest moments ever. That’s like my bucket list. Look at Conor McGregor. All that smack talk comes from the old country, ones like Italy and Ireland. They talk a lot of s— over there. It’s tribal and they fight to the death, but they do a lot of talking, dehumanizing people, too. Those guys from the turn of the century were Irish and Italian, and they made so much money in the wrestling business.”

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