Mike Tyson defends Suarez's World Cup bite
Published
Jul. 9, 2014 6:00 p.m. ET

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In a Reddit AMA session on Tuesday, Mike Tyson said he could understand where soccer player Luis Suarez was coming from when the Uruguay star sunk his teeth into a competitor's shoulder during a World Cup match last month.
The former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, as you may remember, infamously bit Evander Holyfield's ear during a 1997 fight.
Holyfield, for his part, responded to Suarez's bite heard 'round the world with this tweet:
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But Tyson, who now works as a boxing promoter, largely kept his mouth shut on the incident. Until a Reddit user named Weezilwood posed this question:
To which Tyson responded:
Read Tyson's entire AMA here.
H/t SI.com.
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