VIDEO: Mike Tyson admits he couldn't beat his video-game self

Despite creating a video game that bears his namesake (Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!), the former heavyweight champion admitted that he couldn't even beat himself.

(Video via TMZ)

Despite being one of the most intimidating and feared boxers of his generation, Mike Tyson wasn’t very good as his virtual self -- in his own video game -- Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!. 

Tyson admitted as much to a roving TMZ reporter, saying, “No [I couldn’t beat myself], I couldn’t even beat Glass Joe,” who was a 38-year-old, 110-pound, gangly boxer from France. 

Here's Glass Joe, evidently Tyson's biggest nemesis.

“I’m a late-bloomer," he said. "I started playing games in 2006, 2007. …Tour of Duty. I play the zombies, I like the zombies.”

Oh, Iron Mike. Never change. 

(H/T Deadspin)