Mike Tyson falls off skateboard during chat with Tony Hawk, but is thankfully saved by a chair in funny video

For a brief moment on Thursday, Mike Tyson was just as scared as his opponents used to be when they stood across the ring from him awaiting the first bell.

However it was not a fight that frightened the former heavyweight world champion.

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Tyson dramatically lost his balance

Instead, ‘Iron Mike’ had a heart-in-mouth moment when he slipped and fell backwards off a skateboard.

The 56-year-old is never afraid to try new things and proved this once again.

With skateboarding legend Tony Hawk in the studio as a guest on his Hotboxin’ Podcast, Tyson tried his hand at a new sport.

Rather than tentatively approach the task in front of him though, the heavyweight literally jumped straight into it.

He leapt onto the board and, inevitably, lost his balance.

Tyson slipped, fell backwards and by a miracle landed in one of the chairs behind him.

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Thank goodness for the chair

He laughed off the incident and said: “I’m okay, that didn’t happen.”

The fall brought back memories for Tyson of another similar situation.

Back in December 2015, he decided to try out his daughter’s new Christmas present – an electronic ‘hoverboard’.

This resulted in him slamming to the floor and was also caught on video.

Now, seven years on, Tyson captioned the video of his skateboard fall: “Lucky that chair was there or it would have been a repeat of the hoverboard scare.”