Mike Tyson reportedly turned down a $100 Million fight offer
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Mike Tyson in 2020
One of the greatest boxers of our generation, Mike Tyson returned to action after 15 years of absence from the boxing ring. The former heavyweight champion, took on another legend of our era, Roy Jones Jr. These two competed in an exhibition boxing match, and after 8 rounds of a back-and-forth battle, their fight was declared as a draw.
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Tyson actually enjoyed his time in there, and there were talks of him fighting Logan Paul, now Logan was coming off from a very successful exhibition boxing match against Floy Mayweather, he challenged Tyson for a fight, but soon after his younger brother, Jake Paul knocked out Tyron Woodley, the narrative changed, and his name was thrown in the mix.
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Fury recently appeared on Full Send Podcast, and he talked about the possibility of competing in such events in the future, he said, “I’m not even interested in doing this stuff. It was just fun at first. If it was back when I first started, yes, and we were both fighting on the same card and both active, yeah, we could do it. But, it just turned … it just turned bad. It didn’t turn out right.”
“People made it financial, and then the fun went out“- Mike Tyson is frustrated by the financial part of “celebrity boxing”
Tyson then went on to explain his reason behind staying away from such fights, “Something’s missing,” Tyson continued. “Like something’s missing. I give it to … boom, I’m losing muscle mass. Boom, it’s something. It’s always something different. And I don’t know, I’m just … guys want to fight me for 100 million bucks. I don’t think I’ll ever do stuff like that anymore.”
Tyson was cheated by his promoter earlier in his career, he almost declared bankruptcy, but now he’s in a pretty comfortable spot in his life, he won’t want to hassle over money, and the financial part of this “celebrity boxing” bums him out. He said, “I wanted to do it the first time just for fun to have fun and then some people took it to another level and made it financial, and then the fun went out of it.”
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