Mike Tyson punches fellow airline passenger in newly surfaced video

Video of Mike Tyson punching another passenger in an airplane is posted online.

Tyson’s representative Joann Mignano confirmed the altercation, which took place Wednesday aboard a JetBlue flight that was on the tarmac in San Francisco before heading to Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

“Unfortunately, Mr. Tyson had an incident on a flight with an aggressive passenger who began harassing him and threw a water bottle at him while he was in his seat.”

The brief video of the incident shows a man in the seat behind Tyson standing over the boxer’s seat trying to talk to him as Tyson remains quiet.

The shot shows Tyson, crouching on his seat and kicking the passenger behind. Another nearby passenger tries to stop Tyson from punching the man and audio can be heard of someone saying, “Hey Mike, Mike, hold on.”

The victim was left with a bruised face. In the footage, there was no water bottle.

San Francisco Police were alerted to the incident and “were dispatched to a physical altercation onboard an airplane located at the Domestic Terminal of the San Francisco International Airport,” at around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

Police saidTwo people were detained in connection with the altercation. One of them was treated for injuries not life-threatening.

“That subject provided minimal details of the incident and refused to cooperate further with the police investigation,” the police said.

San Francisco police did not identify either of the people they detained but confirmed that both were released, “pending further investigation.”

Sarah Burchfield, a passenger on the flight, was present. saidJust before Tyson’s flight, she witnessed Tyson beat up in an airport bar. She claimed that the man was noisy and quarrelsome.

“When I boarded the flight, I thought, ‘Oh no, that drunk guy is on our flight,’” Burchfield told local news outlet, SF Gate.

She noticed Tyson in first class as she boarded her flight.

“I’m like, ‘Oh my god, Mike Tyson is on this flight!’ He said hi and I kept walking,” she said. “The belligerent guy was sitting right behind him and I saw they were interacting.”

Tyson was in San Francisco to promote his marijuana brand at the 420 Hippie Hill celebration in Golden Gate Park on Wednesday.

JetBlue Airways has yet to release a statement regarding the altercation that occurred on their flight.

TMZ Sports was first to capture the incident.