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Mike Tyson: 'I live like a monk now'

Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson claims that he is now living a "monastic lifestyle".

Former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson has insisted that he is a reformed character.

The 47-year-old was known as much for his struggles with drink, drugs and womanising as he was for his exploits inside the ring, but is now living a "monastic lifestyle".

He told BBC Sport: "I'm not going to sit here and tell you I'm not going to drink again or get high. Hopefully, I won't make a fool of myself. That's what normally happens, normally I won't stop till I'm arrested or I'm in a car accident.

"The reason you do not hear anything about me anymore is because I don't go to clubs anymore, I do not have 45 girlfriends any more that I have got to pay for and I'm not spending all that money now - I just don't live that lifestyle anymore.

"I travel all over the world now and talk to interesting people and to me it is like living a monastic lifestyle, like being a monk living in my little shrine because I'm living a magnanimous life now - in my own mind at least and I am dealing with this."

Tyson released his tell-all autobiography, Undisputed Truth, earlier this year.

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