"Coming back from prison and winning the championship belt. Can you imagine that? Sitting in jail and coming back and winning the most majestic crown in all of sports. Prison confinement and all that, and then you get out and become the richest athlete in the world. I kept thinking about the day I'd be released. To have the belt on my waist again," Tyson said in an interview with YouTube channel Fight Hub TV.
Recall that in 1992 Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison for rape, of which the boxer spent three in prison.