Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has 'no regrets' about his savage and controversial career.
The American is due in Britain next month to talk to fight fans who will pay £25-a-head to hear about his turbulent life.
Tyson, who once infamously bit a chunk out of Evander Holyfield's ear, said: 'I don't have any regrets because everything I have done - the good and the bad - catapulted me to become the person I was willing to become and that's one of the greatest fighters that ever lived.'
The youngest-ever world heavyweight champion at 20, Tyson served a three-year jail term for rape and filed for bankruptcy in 2003 after having earned £200million in his turbulent career.
He insists he will not make another comeback but told BBC Radio 5 Live's Sportsweek programme: 'At that stage of my life I was mean. I was happy to be the person who was savage because all my life I used to hear about these fighters who were savages, monsters and animals. It made them almost inhuman and I loved the stigma behind those guys.
'That's why they continued to live in my head and that's why I wanted to be like them. They motivated me to be the guy that I became at that stage of my life.'
