Exclusive | Mike Tyson plans to get his whole face tattooed after Jake Paul fight

Mike Tyson is planning to tattoo his whole face, starting after tonight’s fight with Jake Paul, as well as breaking his abstention from sex and drugs.The former heavyweight champion, 58, debuted a distinctive tribal design stretching around his left eye and cheek in 2003, and plans to add to it after his landmark fight at the AT&T Center in Arlington, Texas.“I’m thinking about some tattoos,” he told The Post Thursday night, hours before the showdown with Paul, 27, adding: “I think I just want to do my face, my whole face.”When asked what design he would get, Tyson replied: “I’m not going to tell you, but it’s going to be interesting.”Tyson shocked when he became the first high profile celebrity to sport a facial tattoo, but in the 20 years since they have since become more mainstream, sported by the likes of Post Malone, Jelly Roll, Cardi B and even Justin Bieber – and has no regrets about the ink.“I think it’s liberation,” Tyson said.“I don’t care if somebody’s not going to put me on their plane or let me on their yacht or anything.

[The face tattoo] allows me to be me.”Even so, seeing them on other people can be a shock: “Sometimes I forget that I have one and I look at someone else and think, ‘Wow that guy looks really crazy.’”As the hours tick down to fight time tonight, Tyson laid out his plans to get in the right frame of mind.“I’ll be in bed before I go to the fight, take a warm bath, watch some karate movies,” he said.“Then cold showers before the fight.”Plus, for Tyson, a devout Muslim, there will be prayer.“I never pray and wish that I kick somebody’s ass in a fight,” Tyson revealed.

“I believe God loves the other guy as much as he loves me.I pray I don’t get killed.

But not that I win.”While some critics have derided the fight as a money grab, Tyson, who’ll be receiving an estimated $20 million for his participation in the match, insisted it is anything but that.“Money doesn’t...