You want to lighten it up a bit for the kid, Mike?

Given how much his image has been softened in recent years, and just how easily everyone forgot about those alleged rapes, it can be easy to think of Mike Tyson as solely his character in the modern popular imagination.

However, underneath the surface, there’s still the same old Mike, and as he prepares for his fight against Jake Paul, we’re seeing more and more glimpses of it.

For example, Tyson was recently being interviewed by a child about his upcoming fight and how it will impact his legacy. Rather than answer in a way that respects that the person with whom he’s talking doesn’t have a fully formed brain, he decided to get spiritual with it, providing an answer that it both intriguing and terrifying.