Mike Tyson Plane Punch Victim Demands $450K, Boxer’s Lawyer Calls It ‘A Shakedown’

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

However, the boxing legend’s legal professional, Alex Spiro, is adamant the entire thing is “a shakedown” try … and insists completely no fee shall 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 response to the New York Post.

Within the doc, the lawyer — Jake Jondle — stated Tyson might have used different cures to diffuse the state of affairs on the April 2022 JetBlue flight … however as a substitute “he selected bodily violence” and “viciously assaulted” Townsend.

Jondle defined because of the assault, Townsend sustained a “extreme headache” in addition to neck ache … and “remains to be struggling with the consequences of the assault to at the present time.”

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, nonetheless, no such examine shall be written.

“I’ve obtained a shakedown letter associated to some instigator’s harassment of Mike a yr in the past and the aftermath,” Spiro stated in a press release. “There shall be no shakedown fee.”

Reps for Tyson had beforehand advised TMZ Sports activities the whole incident occurred as a result of Townsend threw a water bottle on the former pugilist and aggravated 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, started discussing the marijuana business and psychedelic mushrooms with him, and Mr. Tyson grew to become aggravated” and attacked.