Styles P sat down with Mike Tyson to do the champ's Hotboxin podcast.

It was all love between the two New Yorkers, but during the chat Styles remembered a time that it wasn't.

During an award show in the mid-90s, Iron Mike approached The Lox's Rough Rider girl Eve at an award show in a disrespectful way.

The fellas were worried about what Tyson was going to do so they devised a plan to protect her. [Jump to 13 minutes.]

"We see Mike, we’re chilling. Eve is with us, though — us three, there’s nobody else there. And he's on his bully and we decided, ‘We gotta protect Eve.’ We was deciding who was gonna get knocked out. I was like, ‘I got a knife. Mike’s gonna kill us," Styles explained.  “He just liked Eve for how she was looking. Eve was nervous.  We with Eve so gotta be the protectors, so now we in a f*cked up position. Now we deciding who’s gonna take the Mike blow. We decided Louch. Louch like, ‘F*ck no!’ I’m like, ‘I’ma die. I’m little.’ Nobody can take this blow. We trying to come up with a strategy.”

Tyson didn't deny he had bad intentions on his mind.  But he added that he made up with Eve years ago for his behavior that night.