Mike Tyson shocks with his reaction after coming face to face with a notorious serial killer

Mike Tyson is one of the crucial respected boxers within the history of the game. The former champion’s attacking style and two-handed power quickly made him a fan favorite within the late Eighties, becoming the primary heavyweight boxer to hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles concurrently.

The excitement surrounding Tyson’s performances left everyone wanting a likelihood to interview him — including serial killer Dale Hausner.

During an appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in 2017, Tyson told the story of getting a call from his team that a reporter wanted to do an interview at a gym in Phoenix. The two met in 2006, a few weeks before the reporter became known to police.

Tyson described Hausner, who was also an airport janitor and real-life boxing reporter, as “a really short guy, but a really nice guy.” However, the previous champion later realized that perhaps Hausner wasn’t so nice after all.

He told Jimmy Kimmel that he returned to the gym two or three days later “and the gym was surrounded by cops, like SWAT.” Adding some humor to the story, Tyson said he asked the sergeant who approached him “what the hell did I do, whose ass did I grab last night?” before the show’s audience roared with laughter. “So I thought, hey, if I grabbed somebody’s ass, the feds wouldn’t come after me. It would be a cop or some lawyer.”

The then-retired boxing champion told the gang that having police surround his constructing can be too minor a crime.

The policeman showed Tyson a photo with Hausner, asking if he recognized him, and Tyson, still confused, said, “Well, sir, I don’t know, I was promoting the fight, if I had to say something to him, if I offended him, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.”

But the officer assured Tyson that he had done nothing improper. He finally got to the underside of why he had questioned the champ about Hausner and said, “No, he liked you, Mr. Tyson. He didn’t like the 28 people he shot and the eight he killed.”

“Did the killer interrogate you?” a shocked Kimmel asked, to which Tyson replied, “Yes.”

Hausner and his partner in crime, Samuel Dieteman, were dubbed the “Serial Shooters” after committing several drive-by shootings in Phoenix that left 19 people injured and eight dead. They also killed a minimum of 10 animals.

Tyson made the error of describing Hauser to Kimmel because the Baseline shooter, who turned out to be one other man, Mark Goudeau.

One person within the YouTube comments said, “The Baseline shooter is someone else. There were 3 different serial killers in Phoenix in 2006. The Baseline guy worked alone, while Hauser and another guy worked together.”

Another added: “He was the Phoenix serial shooter. The Baseline killer was another serial killer in Phoenix who was killing at the exact same time.”

Goudeau, a known serial killer, rapist and thief, was lively similtaneously the Serial Riflemen between August 2005 and June 2006. He was convicted to death for multiple murders in 2011.

Hausner and Dieteman were high on methamphetamine after they murdered. They weren’t caught until 15 months after the killings began, and arrested in August 2006. Hausner never confessed to the shootings, however the evidence presented in court was enough to find him guilty of 80 felony counts.

In 2009, a jury found Hausner guilty and he was sentenced to six death sentences. However, Hausner had other plans to shorten his sentence, taking his own life in 2013.

During the inquest into his death, it was revealed that Hausner had hoarded 50 pills, a few of which he had received from an inmate whom he initially said had trouble sleeping. He later confessed to that inmate that he had been hoarding them so as to commit suicide. An expert reportedly ruled that he died from “amitriptyline poisoning.”

As for Hausner’s partner, Dieteman, he was also found guilty and sentenced to life in prison without the potential for parole. He is currently serving his sentence at Arizona State Prison Complex – Safford.