Mayweather & Tyson: Boxers With Histories Of Violence Against Women

With the second lawsuit filed by ex-model and actress Shantel Jackson on Thursday against former fiancé Floyd Mayweather Jr for physical assault, comparison becomes inevitable with former boxing champion Mike Tyson.

Read: New Lawsuit Accuses Mayweather Of Pullinf Gun, Choking Shantel Jackson

The former heavyweight champion, like Money May, also had a history of abusing women and spending time in jail for the offense, in the process causing Tyson to lose a substantial part of his wealth.

So far, the comparison with Tyson ends at spending time in jail since Mayweather is far from the poor house for now.

Tyson gained fame in 1988 when he knocked out Michael Spinks in after just 91 seconds, after which he defended successfully his world heavyweight championship title nine times.

In 1992, he was sentenced to 7 years after he was found guilty of raping Desiree Washington, the Miss Black Rhode Island, in July 1991. While in jail, he converted to Islam. Tyson was released in March 1995 after serving his sentence for three years.

He also had cocaine possession and driving under the influence convictions. His first wife, Robin Givens, had accused Tyson of violence and spousal abuse.

Despite earning $300 million during his boxing career, Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003. In May 2010, he admitted at the American talk show The View that he was living paycheck to paycheck and he is a total destitute and broke.

Despite his financial decline, the boxing world still recognised Tyson's legacy and inducted him to the International Boxing Hall of Fame in June 2011, while Ring Magazine had also placed him No 14 in its 1988 The Greatest Heavyweights of All-Time and in 2002 listed Tyson No 72 in its 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years.

Mayweather, in turn, has a worse record when it comes to women, although it appears that women whom he had relationships with that turned sour later willingly had sex with him and he did not have to force himself on them, unlike Tyson. But all three of his past relationships ended in accusations of physical abuse, from Melissa Brim in 2001 to Josie Harris in 2012 and now Shantel Jackson in 2014.

For his assault on Harris, Mayweather was jailed, but days after his release, the boxer committed a similar abuse on Jackson.

On Tuesday, more details of Jackson's complaint filed last week against Mayweather came out, including being kept prisoner at his Las Vegas home, threatening to published her nude photos taken while she was sleeping and breaking into her locked storage and taking her things.

Details of her lawsuit that came out exclude monetary claims against the boxer.

A court decision in favour of Jackson could result in his ex-fiance being awarded a substantial chunk of Mayweather's estimated wealth of $400 million, and at the rate Money May is throwing away his earnings on fancy cars, expensive real property and jewellery, he risks ending up also like Tyson with a huge legacy left to the boxing world, but no heirloom for his kids from various relationships.

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Ironically, while Mayweather acknowledges that Tyson had inspired him, Tyson says in the video below that he actually dislikes Mayweather.

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