{"id":174608,"date":"2025-06-11T03:22:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174608\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T03:22:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T03:22:12","slug":"mike-tyson-baffles-fans-with-white-mike-ai-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/174608\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson baffles fans with &#8216;White Mike&#8217; AI photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tyson has posted an unusual AI-generated portrait on social media, depicting himself with white skin and blonde hair whilst maintaining his distinctive facial features and iconic Maori face tattoo.<\/p>\n<p>The former heavyweight champion shared the image with his 33.5 million followers, captioning it: &#8220;White Mike? You guys know this isn&#8217;t right&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The artificial intelligence creation presents a striking transformation of the boxing legend, who returned to the ring in November for a bout against Jake Paul. <\/p>\n<p>The portrait shows a figure with Tyson&#8217;s unmistakable facial structure and tattoo, but with a pale complexion and light hair colour he has never possessed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"19382\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"7bb5e63c97d6b42fc5f620fc46cfac0f\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201020%201158'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mike-tyson-ai.png\" width=\"1020\" height=\"1158\" alt=\"Mike Tyson AI\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson baffles fans posting this image on social media <\/p>\n<p>Instagram @miketyson<\/p>\n<p>The bizarre portrait rapidly gained traction on social media, garnering nearly 500,000 likes within just 14 hours of being posted.<\/p>\n<p>The AI-generated image maintains all of Tyson&#8217;s recognisable facial characteristics, including his distinctive Maori face tattoo, whilst dramatically altering his skin tone to white and hair colour to blonde.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JUST IN<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/football\/gary-lineker-first-wife-sons-wedding-2672343735\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Lineker, 64, reunites with first wife Michelle at son&#8217;s Ibiza wedding<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This peculiar digital creation captured the attention of Tyson&#8217;s massive online following, sparking widespread reactions and discussions across the platform. <\/p>\n<p>The image&#8217;s viral spread demonstrates the continued fascination with the boxing legend, who has maintained a significant social media presence following his recent return to professional boxing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbnews.com\/sport\/tennis\/coco-gauff-french-open-rule-2672343898\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coco Gauff discovers little-known French Open rule on private jet flight home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"3362d\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"2be128ea4ea7075179695a9296f9bb64\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201312%201630'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/brock-lesnar.jpg\" width=\"1312\" height=\"1630\" alt=\"Brock Lesnar\"\/>Brock Lesnar is renowned as one of the most famous wrestlers of all timeInstagram<\/p>\n<p>Fans quickly drew comparisons between the AI portrait and professional wrestlers, particularly Brock Lesnar and John Cena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just Brock Lesnar,&#8221; one follower commented bluntly, whilst another suggested: &#8220;If Brock Lesnar and Mike Tyson had a baby&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LATEST SPORTS NEWS<\/strong>: <\/p>\n<p>The resemblance to Lesnar struck many viewers, with the WWE and UFC champion being the most common comparison. #<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar holds the distinction of being the only person to capture heavyweight titles in WWE, UFC and NCAA, and became the youngest WWE Champion at 25 years and 44 days.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fb0f3\" data-rm-shortcode-id=\"a64dd013b1731573214dcc420fbc849d\" data-rm-shortcode-name=\"rebelmouse-image\" class=\"rm-shortcode rm-lazyloadable-image \" lazy-loadable=\"true\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%203947%202631'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-runner-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/john-cena.jpg\" width=\"3947\" height=\"2631\" alt=\"John Cena\"\/><\/p>\n<p>John Cena was also compared to AI image <\/p>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Some followers also noted similarities to Lesnar&#8217;s WWE colleague John Cena, highlighting how the AI transformation created an unexpected crossover between boxing and wrestling personalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson has posted an unusual AI-generated portrait on social media, depicting himself with white skin and blonde&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,1935,12,512,93,53,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-174608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-sgg","13":"tag-sport","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114662587988670852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}