 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - Mike Tyson was so scared of killing opponents in the ring, he often had sex with groupies before fights to diminish his strength, his former bodyguard claims
- Bodyguard and chauffeur Rudy Gonzalez said he would tuck girls away 'in bathrooms and changing rooms' so Tyson could have sex with them before fights
- The strategy may have worked. Tyson, now 55, never did kill anyone in the ring, although he bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear in 1997, leading to a DQ
- As Gonzalez explained, the ritual was born out of the champ's fear of killing another boxer: 'His biggest fear was that he would kill someone in that ring'
- Gonzalez added that Tyson also 'had an anxiety problem where he would be in despair with anxiety of not feeling good enough or not wanting to screw it up'
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