With his head encased in a bandage, and a grim look on his face photographer Tony Echevarria certainly looks just like a man who has gone one round with former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.
The former heavyweight boxing champion was arrested at LAX airport after allegedly brawling with the photographer.
And there certainly is proof that the photographer was subject to a beating as a picture of him without a bandage shows the snapper’s head with what looks like an imprint of fingers on his dome.
Both Tyson, 43, and Echavarria were arrested after the scuffle which left the snapper with a cut to his head.
A source told the Los Angeles Times Tyson told police the photographer struck him in an attempt to provoke him, while the paparazzo claimed the boxer punched him in the face and tried to take film from his camera.
But LA police have yet to clarify the exact details of the incident.
‘There’s a lot of different versions to the story,’ Los Angeles Airport Police Sergeant Jim Holcomb said.
‘That’s all going to come out later. But in this particular case, both individuals are going to be pressing charges for battery.’
‘I’ve heard people were following him into the men’s room and trying to take his picture there,’ claimed Tyson’s defence attorney, David Chesnoff.
‘My advice to him is going to be to vigorously press charges against what everyone agrees are ridiculously aggressive photographers.’
Tyson has since been released on charges of misdemeanour battery on $20,000 bail, the photographer will be arrested on his release from hospital.
The boxer had been making his way back from the UK after his Coming Back To The Fans tour.
Fans were given the chance to gain first-hand insight into the boxer’s world during the tour, which took place in Wolverhampton, Belfast, Essex and Cardiff.
Tyson said of the tour: ‘I just want to meet and greet as many of the ordinary fans, the fans who rooted for me when I was up and rooted for me when I was down.’
Just last month he appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s chat show to discuss the death of his daughter, who died in a tragic accident in May this year.
Despite earning a reported $400million over the course of his 20-year boxing career, Tyson filed for bankruptcy in 2003.
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