Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr.'s highly-anticipated boxing exhibition is finally here, taking place behind-closed-doors at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 28.
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The heavyweight exhibition tops a card which has been organized by Triller and Tyson's League of Legends.
Here is the four-bout main card in full:
- Hasim Rahman Jr. vs. Rashad Coulter — cruiserweight (six rounds)
- Badou Jack vs. Blake McKernan — light heavyweight (eight rounds)
- Jake Paul vs. Nate Robinson — cruiserweight (six rounds)
- Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones — heavyweight (eight rounds)
Jake Paul, a YouTube creator, takes part in his second fight of the year and competes against the former NBA player Nate Robinson.
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The fight between Paul and Robinson serves as the co-feature of the night. The YouTuber weighed 189-pounds, outweighing Robinson by eight pounds.
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Both cruiserweights appeared to be fighting fit, even though Robinson had told Insider that it was a struggle at first to get used to a different kind of fitness boxing requires when compared to basketball.
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Roy Jones Jr., a former four-weight boxing champion who had retired after a grueling 75-fight career in 2018, weighed 210-pounds Friday.
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Though Jones was a massively-accomplished boxer who was considered one of the most athletic and technically-graceful fighters of all time in the 1990s, he said in previous months that he was beginning to regret signing a deal to fight Tyson in an exhibition.
"He's still Mike Tyson," said Jones in September.
"He's still one of the strongest, most explosive people who ever touched a boxing ring. If anything, I made a mistake going in with him. He's the bigger guy. He's the explosive guy."
Then came Mike Tyson who weighed 220.4-pounds on Friday — the lightest he's weighed in boxing since 1996.
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This was Mike Tyson's first face-off for almost a decade and a half.
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Neither fighter cares about the criticism the exhibition has received, and appear as ready as any former athletes in their 50s will be to throw hands come Saturday.
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