After a shocking news report came from a West African website stating Mike Tyson had undergone a sex change, the website was forced to release a second report saying those claims were false just two days after.

The original article quoted Tyson as saying:

“Even at the height of my career, when pound for pound I was regarded as the best fighter in the world, I never lost touch with my feminine side and knew that one day I would grow breasts and have a vagina.”

Since then, Tyson has felt the need to release a statement denying the sex change. It read:

“I am still a man and I have always been fully in touch with my masculinity and have no intention of becoming a woman. The claims are not only untrue but unbelievably stupid. I was at the Pacquiao-Marquez fight on Saturday and any reasonable person could tell I was looking like a man.”

Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles. Since then he has always been in the public eye, and in recent years has become a bit of a pop icon after his appearance in the blockbuster film The Hangover.