A strange video, to say the least, has resurfaced thanks to the Internet users. The scene takes place on August 19, 1995 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and Mike Tyson prepares to face Peter McNeeley. In the crowd, a spectator films the event with an anachronistic object: a device resembling a smartphone, although they did not exist before 2007.
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This was enough to support the theory of time travel for a few weeks. For the most Cartesian of us, there is always an explanation. The person holding this "smartphone" could actually just be holding some random object that happened to reflect the light of one of the cameras around the ring.
It goes without saying that that evening, the so-called "smartphone" did not disturb Mike Tyson at all, as he dominated his opponent effortlessly in the first round.