It’s Mike Tyson fight week—words I never thought I’d lead a column with, having never covered a Tyson fight in a decade-plus as a boxing reporter. In the 15 years Iron Mike has been retired, I never expected the battered and broken man Danny Williams and Kevin McBride lay waste to in his last two fights to ever come back. Yet here we are, a 54-year old Tyson a day away from squaring off against a 51-year old Roy Jones in a fight no one is quite sure what to make of.
On Saturday, Tyson and Jones will meet in an empty Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles in an eight-round exhibition fans can watch on pay-per-view.