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Mac Engel: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a terrible, dangerous idea -- and there's a big market for it
IRVING, Texas — Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is legalized human cock fighting, an event that needs the promotion line of, “Why Not? We’re All Gonna Die.”
Tyson should be dead already, so stepping back in to the ring to fight a YouTube influencer is free money in a life on extended time. Few athletes in the last 40 years have cheated death, ...Read more
Greg Cote: Tyson-Paul fight is ridiculous, a freak show. Elder abuse? But we're gonna watch.
MIAMI — You may have heard on account of the avalanche of hype and Netflix ads that boxing icon Mike Tyson is extracting himself from mothballs to enter the ring against YouTube-invented self promoter Jake Paul on Friday night in a sanctioned heavyweight fight in Arlington, Texas.
Which raises the question: Who is sanctioning fights out there...Read more
Sharp bettors, public on opposite sides of Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight
LAS VEGAS — Mike Tyson is 58 and his last professional fight was 19 years ago.
That hasn’t stopped bettors from backing “Iron Mike” in the former world heavyweight champion’s return to the ring Friday against 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
Paul is as low as a -240 favorite at Caesars Sportsbook, where 91% of the tickets...Read more
Jaron Ennis is returning to the Wells Fargo Center. 'Politics of boxing' keep it from being a bigger fight.
PHILADELPHIA — Eddie Hearn called Jaron Ennis last month, asking Philadelphia’s undefeated boxing star what he wanted to do. Ennis’ next fight, according to the International Boxing Federation, was to be a mandatory welterweight title defense against a challenger he easily outpointed less than two years ago in a dull bout not worthy of a ...Read more
LA district attorney wanted to hold Ryan Garcia accountable for $15,000 hotel vandalism damage. Judge dismissed case.
LOS ANGELES — Mercurial boxer Ryan Garcia caught a break Tuesday when a judge dismissed a misdemeanor vandalism charge against him over the objections of the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
Judge James P. Cooper III granted a civil compromise at the Airport Courthouse in Los Angeles, noting that Garcia had paid restitution of ...Read more
Canelo Alvarez 'not overlooking' challenger Edgar Berlanga in Las Vegas title fight
LAS VEGAS — Canelo Alvarez has fought long enough to know never to take an opponent lightly.
It doesn’t matter to him if he’s fighting an established boxer like Floyd Mayweather or, like Saturday, facing an undefeated knockout specialist.
Alvarez, 34, understands there will be a weight on his shoulders every time he steps into the ring. ...Read more
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- Greg Cote: Tyson-Paul fight is ridiculous, a freak show. Elder abuse? But we're gonna watch.
- Sharp bettors, public on opposite sides of Mike Tyson-Jake Paul fight
- Mac Engel: Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson is a terrible, dangerous idea -- and there's a big market for it
- Jaron Ennis is returning to the Wells Fargo Center. 'Politics of boxing' keep it from being a bigger fight.
- LA district attorney wanted to hold Ryan Garcia accountable for $15,000 hotel vandalism damage. Judge dismissed case.
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