Mike Tyson, former heavyweight boxing champion and now president of Iron Mike Productions, will make his boxing debut as a promoter on August 23 in upstate New York. His first event, featuring a super-featherweight title tussle, will take place at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. and will be televised on ESPN Friday Night Fights.
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The promotional company was originally known as Acquinity Sports and was based out of Deerfield Beach, Fla. before becoming Iron Mike Productions. According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, Tyson and the chief executive of Acquinity Sports, Garry Jonas, had been working on a deal the past five months before reaching an agreement.
“Believe me,” Tyson said, “the last thing I ever thought I’d be doing would be returning to boxing as a promoter. But these two great businessmen approached me and I loved their ideas. I’m going to be very hands-on, personally checking on the conditioning and style of all our fighters.”
The 47-year old Tyson also revealed ambitions beyond simply promoting professional bouts. “I want to put together an amateur team that competes with teams from other countries,” he said. “I even want to work with kids who are just starting out and haven’t even had their first bout.”
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Mike Tyson to this day still holds the record as the youngest boxer at 20 years old to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles. Tyson is also the star of a one-man, 36-city road show called “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, which details his rise from the streets of Brooklyn to champion boxer.
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