Tyson Is a New Father, Paper Says

Boxer Mike Tyson became a father this week when a baby boy was born to his 24-year-old girlfriend at a hospital in the Catskills, the New York Post said today.

“I’m very happy to be having a family,” Tyson told the Post.

The newspaper said the child, as yet unnamed, was born Wednesday to Natalie Fears of Los Angeles. The name of the hospital was not given.

The report also said Tyson has no plans to marry Fears but will buy a house in Los Angeles and support the child.

Tyson brought Fears from Los Angeles to the Catskills several months ago, and she has been staying with the woman who helped rear Tyson, Camille Ewald.

Tyson has not seen his son yet because he’s training for a June 16 fight with Henry Tillman in Las Vegas, the newspaper said, quoting unidentified sources.

The newspaper said a Los Angeles dancer, Trena Archie, 22, said in February that Tyson is the father of her infant son. Tyson has not acknowledged paternity in that case, the Post said.