The fight Jordan could not have won: Mike Tyson almost hit him

It was 1988. Michael Jordan was beginning to dazzle the world in his early years in the NBA, while Mike Tyson was at the peak of his boxing career.  Two of the most mediatic characters in the United States met at an event.  At the time, the boxer was in the midst of a complicated divorce from his ex-wife Robin Givens, with whom Michael Jordan had had a date before she began her relationship with the boxer.

Rory Holloway, who was Mike Tyson's manager at the time, says that the boxer began to drink more than he should.  And that's when he walked past Jordan and reminded him of his relationship with his ex-wife: "Hey, you (addressing Jordan), do you think I'm stupid? I know you were with my wife."  According to Holloway account, "Jordan remained as if he had seen a ghost, he did not want to know anything of that".

 Finally, the story did not go further and among several people they managed to calm Tyson away from there.  A situation that could have ended very badly for Jordan if the heavyweight boxing world champion had decided to pounce on him.  It would have been one of the few times Air had lost something.