Mike Tyson was ready to fight boxing's best – including Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua

Mike Tyson once declared his readiness to take on Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder for a charitable cause.

The boxing icon is gearing up for his return to the ring next week in an eagerly awaited match against Jake Paul on Friday (November 15) at the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas.

This will mark Tyson's first professional boxing bout since his loss to Kevin McBride in 2005 and his first fight of any sort since his charity exhibition match against Roy Jones Jr in 2020.

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Decades after his two stints as the heavyweight champion of the world, the 58 year old's former title of 'The Baddest Man on the Planet' still holds true. Just a week prior to his draw with Jones Jr, Tyson called on the world's top heavyweights to face him in the ring to raise funds for charity, reports the Mirror.

Promising to donate his entire earnings from the showdown with his fellow boxing legend, the New Yorker challenged Fury, Wilder and Joshua when questioned about the trio. "I think they're brilliant," Tyson commented.

"They're brilliant fighters. They could do so much for society. They could have exhibitions and take the money from the exhibitions, because they're such big crowd pleasers and they could help so many people.

"There's so many people out there that we can do so much for, and it wouldn't even be a 10th of their charitable heart to do something like that. In fact, fight exhibitions with me, and most of our charity would go to people who desperately need it."

Earlier in 2020, Tyson had expressed his eagerness to compete against boxing's elite heavyweights for philanthropic causes. "If doing that means we can have bigger charity exponents, well be it, I'm down to do that too," he declared.

"This is all being done for charity, and if they're down to do that, I'm with it too. It's entertainment, it's just for charity - it's for a good cause, but we're giving our best."

When proposed the idea of going up against Joshua in the ring, Tyson conveyed his enthusiasm: "I would love to do that. That would be mind-blowing. I want you to label them as exhibitions because there are no hard feelings. It has a charity exponent and I look at that as bigger than me. 'Buying a new car, a new girlfriend, a new mansion, a new plane'... that doesn't do it for me anymore. It just doesn't work."

Fury, who was named after Tyson, recounted past negotiations over a potential exhibition match, however, discrepancies regarding financial details caused the plans to fall through.