Former Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson has endorsed hard-charging Mayor Rob Ford in his reelection bid. We’re “cut from the same cloth,” said Ford. “There’s no nonsense. I respect him.”
Commenting on Ford’s crack-smoking and philandering, which are now reportedly on hiatus during the campaign, Tyson said, “We all make mistakes” and that Ford has “overcome adversity.”
“He’s a human being,” Tyson told a reporter, according to the Toronto Star. “We have no idea what you do behind closed doors, what your habits are” – something that may not be entirely true in Ford’s case.
From the Star ..
Tyson said he doesn’t know “anything” about Ford’s history of racial slurs. He joked about the violent caught-on-video Ford tirade in which Tyson’s name is mentioned by someone off camera as Ford threatens to kill an unnamed adversary.
