Mike Tyson Aircraft Punch Sufferer Calls for $450K, Boxer’s Lawyer Calls It ‘A Shakedown’

The person who Mike Tyson pummeled throughout a wild battle on a aircraft final 12 months is now demanding the boxer pay him practically half one million {dollars} to keep away from a future lawsuit over the altercation.

However, the boxing legend’s lawyer, Alex Spiro, is adamant the entire thing is “a shakedown” try … and insists completely no fee will probably be forthcoming.

A lawyer for Melvin Townsend — the punch sufferer — made the calls for clear in a pre-litigation letter despatched to Spiro earlier this week, in keeping with the New York Post.

Within the doc, the lawyer — Jake Jondle — stated Tyson may have used different cures to diffuse the scenario on the April 2022 JetBlue flight … however as an alternative “he chose physical violence” and “viciously assaulted” Townsend.

Jondle defined because of the assault, Townsend sustained a “severe headache” in addition to neck ache … and “is still suffering with the effects of the assault to this day.”

Jondle wrote within the doc that $450,000 from Tyson would assist Townsend cowl his authorized payments … in addition to any future remedy Townsend would require.

In accordance with Spiro, nevertheless, no such examine will probably be written.

“I have received a shakedown letter related to some instigator’s harassment of Mike a year ago and the aftermath,” Spiro stated in an announcement. “There will be no shakedown payment.”

Reps for Tyson had beforehand instructed TMZ Sports activities your entire incident occurred as a result of Townsend threw a water bottle on the former pugilist and irritated him repeatedly. Tyson himself later stated on his “Hotboxin” podcast that Townsend “was f***ing with me” previous to the incident.

For Townsend’s half, Jondle stated in his letter this week his consumer was merely “excited to see [Tyson] on the flight, began discussing the marijuana industry and psychedelic mushrooms with him, and Mr. Tyson became annoyed” and attacked.