Mike Tyson has been at the center of some of the biggest fights in boxing history, but his September 7, 1996 Las Vegas fight against journeyman Bruce Sheldon will be remembered for preceding the murder of rap legend Tupac Shakur As centerpieces of 90’s celebrity culture, Tyson and Tupac became friends, and Tyson was brought […]
Deontay Wilder is arguably the hardest punching boxer in the fight game today, but instead of collapsing an opposing heavyweight with one of his vicious shots, Wilder ended up breaking the jaw of a guy in a mascot suit during a PR appearance on ESPN Deportes to promote his upcoming fight with Tyson Fury. During […]
Mike Tyson and Steven Seagal are both late 80’s/early 90’s ass kicking legends, so when you find a random b movie that features an incredible dream fight between the two, it’s must watch trash cinema. The movie is called The China Salesman (2017), the plot to this is who cares. Tyson gets set off when […]
Like most athletic phenoms, Mike Tyson showed signs that he would become a dominant force at an early age. In a rarely seen fight from the Tyson archives that we spotted while down a Tyson rabbit hole, an unknown 15-year-old Tyson faced off against some tomato can named Joe Cortez in the 1981 Junior Olympic […]
Legendary promoter Don King was the driving promotional force behind Mike Tyson dominated the heavyweight division in the 80’s and became one of the most famous athletes in the world. Over the years the relationship has deteriorated, with Tyson accusing King of using him taking advantage of him and his naivety and contributing to his […]
Today, President Trump has issued a posthumous pardon of Jack Johnson, the first African American heavyweight boxing champion, more than a century after he was convicted under federal law for having relationships with white women. Johnson was arrested under the Mann Act, a law which made it illegal to ‘transport women across state lines for […]
