Boxing

Mike Tyson has avoided trouble, even though he has been heckled by other inmates in the Indiana prison where he is serving a six-year sentence for rape, the former heavyweight champion told Ed Bradley of CBS News.

“I know I’m not the . . . most popular inmate in here because . . . I stand up for what I believe in,” Tyson said. “I basically say what’s on my mind. . . .”

Tyson told of a time he was heckled but didn’t understand the other inmate’s lingo.

“And one day it’s ‘Mike Tyson, you . . . tree jumper,’ ” he said. “And I didn’t know what a tree jumper was. I thought it meant like I was a great athlete or something, jumping out of trees. And I was . . . ‘What’s a tree jumper?’ And they said, ‘A tree jumper’s a rapist. You know, you wait for little kids to go by. You jump up a tree and grab em.’ I said, ‘Oh . . . .’ ”