“Gonna be bragging about that for a bit”

Photo via @iamthebriefcase on Instagram

BY MEGAN LAPIERREPUBLISHED MAR 19, 2024

At this point, it’s pretty well known that Maynard James Keenan is a man with passions stretching beyond his work in the bands Tool, Puscifer, A Perfect Circle and Failure — which he’s celebrating this week with the release of an album with an unbelievably ugly cover — and into things like Jenga and, perhaps most infamously, Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

Earlier this year, he earned his black belt with moves that he believes could have saved Chris Rock from being slapped to death. The vocalist also runs his own jiu-jitsu school, Verde Valley BJJ, in Cottonwood, AZ, where boxing legend Mike Tyson has apparently been training for his live-on-Netflix comeback fight against former YouTuber Jake Paul.

As pointed out by Metal Injection, Keenan took to Instagram over the weekend to share a couple photos of him and Tyson, writing, “Honored to have @miketyson grace our small town academy, @verdevalleybjj . His Training Camp for @jakepaul vs @miketyson began under our roof. Gonna be bragging about that for a bit. Long after y’all are tired of hearing about it. Deal w it.”

If you’re into that sort of thing, the Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson live boxing event happens at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, on July 20, streaming live on Netflix as the platform’s third live sports event.