Boxing fans convinced there's a 'time traveller' in 1995 Mike Tyson fight video as mysterious clip resurfaces

Boxing fans are adamant that a 'time traveller' was in attendance for one of Mike Tyson's fights back in his prime.

The 58-year-old's last professional fight came in November when he was beaten by Jake Paul in an eight-round contest at the AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

But there was something extremely odd about his encounter with Peter McNeeley and it's still a discussion point 30 years on.

In his first fight since being released from prison after serving three years behind bars, Tyson faced McNeeley at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas and the Hurricane had stirred things beforehand by saying he would wrap Iron 'Mike' in "a cocoon of horror".

It didn't go to plan though as McNeeley was knocked down twice inside two minutes and his manager Vinnie Vecchione jumped in the ring to avoid further punishment, resulting in instant disqualification after just 89 seconds of action.

Yet that wasn't the only talking point coming out of the bout, with many focusing on what HBO cameras picked up outside of the squared circle.

When Tyson was about to go into battle, someone in the crowd took picture with what looks like the kind of smartphones we have been accustomed to using on a daily basis in recent times.

However devices of this ilk were not around for much of the 1990s, with the first smartphone coming out in 1996 when the Nokia 2110 - sometimes referred to as the "brick" - was manufactured and released.

And so there were suggestions and conspiracy theories which claimed the only logical explanation was that the fan in question was a time traveller.

In the comments section of an Inside Edition video on YouTube, one user wrote: "I’m surprised the government hasn’t done a Men In Black and erased our memory of this."

A second commented: "I remember watching this live and wondering what it was."

A third added: "Has the time traveller pulled the wool over everyone's eye?"

A fourth said: "Whoever filmed this needs to upload it."

Though the YouTube channel said there was "something fishy" about the footage, they believe that they solved the mystery and claimed the spectator was holding a Dycam Logitech camcorder.

Mike Tyson stands over Peter McNeeley after knocking him to the canvas. Image: Getty

Snopes also debunked the theories and came to the conclusion that the device could have potentially been a Casio camcorder.

An article reads: "Although the photographic device seen here does resemble a type of camera phone not sold until several years after 1995, it also resembles any one of a number of handheld cameras that were in fact widely available in 1995.

"The resolution and size of the original video make it difficult to determine specific features of the device glimpsed here, but we found a number of cameras that are both similar to what's seen in the video and were commonly available in 1995, most notably the Casio QV-10A, the Casio QV-100 and the Logitech Fotoman."