It’s not a good thing to see anyone over the age of 50 fighting, but at least Tyson isn’t planning to challenge Tyson Fury or Anthony Joshua. If it doesn’t work, it’s no big deal because he has plenty of money and plenty of successful businesses. The fight for Tyson will be a way to launch his new Legends Only League, which will feature athletes from different sports.įacing Jones will give Tyson the opportunity to sate his competitive desires while also helping to launch his new business. 19, it’s going to make it a tough sell for the Charlos. People don’t often buy more than one pay-per-view a month, and with Tyson and then UFC 253 scheduled for Sept.
26 PPV that features Jermall Charlo versus Sergiy Derevyanchenko and Jermell Charlo against Jeison Rosario. But believe this: The Tyson-Jones pay-per-view will badly hurt Showtime’s planned Sept. Golden Boy, Alvarez and DAZN are on a deadline to make a deal, so if it doesn’t get done soon, it could wind up moving to a different date. Alvarez makes more than $30 million a fight, so there isn’t a lot left to pay an opponent if there are no fans in the stands paying upward of $20 million for the right to attend. Getting that kind of opponent for Alvarez is proving to be difficult because of the lack of fans caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
if not the world, but he’ll have trouble competing against Tyson, particularly if Alvarez has a less-than-exciting opponent. Alvarez is the biggest draw in boxing now, at least in the U.S. The date they chose for the fight is the same one that Canelo Alvarez is expected to fight on, though Alvarez and Golden Boy Promotions have yet to finalize a deal. But it’s not a long list and Tyson’s name still carries a lot of clout, in and beyond the boxing community. Oh, there are others, such as Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, George Foreman, Floyd Mayweather, Manny Pacquiao and Jack Dempsey and maybe a few more, who would be in the running for that honor. Tyson is one of the biggest names in boxing’s history, arguably second only to Muhammad Ali as the most iconic figure the sport has known. Tyson blew much, if not all, of the $300 million he’d earned during the bulk of his boxing career and ended up in an acrimonious lawsuit with promoter Don King.īut the man who in 1986 became the youngest man ever to win the heavyweight title when he blew out Trevor Berbick at what was then known as the Las Vegas Hilton lives a comfortable life these days and has no money concerns.įoster approved the fight, pending both of them passing comprehensive physical examinations that will be conducted by the commission.īut even with that promise to just move lightly around the ring and not take any risks, this will be an attraction.
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“I’m a fighter, and that’s what I do,” White recalled Tyson telling him.Īlmost a month later, it became official that Tyson would headline a card promoted by Triller against Jones, the former pound-for-pound king who won world titles as a pro at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight and heavyweight. White said that Tyson told him there is something deep inside of him that motivates him to try it again. At a June 28 post-fight news conference in Las Vegas, White noted that he’d talked to both Tyson and Evander Holyfield and urged them not to fight each other.
UFC president Dana White is a close friend of Tyson’s. Nothing, though, could be further from the truth. The assumption by many is that the former undisputed heavyweight champion is broke and needs the money. 12 at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. On Thursday, Yahoo Sports broke the news that Tyson, now 54, will come out of a 15-year retirement to face 51-year-old former champion Roy Jones Jr.