The fact is that Mike Tyson bit through my trousers and took a significant piece of flesh out of my thigh.

Mike Tyson fit the American ideal of a boxer. A fighter who jumps out of his corner and hits out fiercely. That’s what he’'ll be remembered for. But good boxing doesn’t work like that. Tyson never won on points. It was clear that he’'d come a cropper some day.

A boxer should quit at the top, as they say. But that’s complicated. There are plenty of people in boxing who make money out off you. And they tell you that you’ve still got it, that it’s still getting better.

I just want to complete my legacy.

I am proud to be in Los Angeles. I have a lot of fans that love me here. When you talk about the Meccas of boxing - Las Vegas, New York - now you have to talk about Los Angeles.

I am just taking the top fights out there for me. People will get bored seeing me every day knock someone out.

The media can make boxers, controls who makes it big and who doesn’t. They can build up fighters or knock them down.