{"id":21840,"date":"2013-08-12T13:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/tyson-gets-back-into-boxing\/"},"modified":"2013-08-12T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T11:15:11","slug":"tyson-gets-back-into-boxing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tyson-gets-back-into-boxing\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson gets back into boxing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13200\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13200 \" alt=\"Mike Tyson. Photo: Reuters\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b9efc_MK-CF463_HEARD_G_20130811173124.jpg\" width=\"387\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Tyson. Photo: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson will make his anticipated boxing comeback on August 23, but he will not be in his fighting togs.<\/p>\n<p>The former heavyweight champion is returning to the world of the ring as a promoter and president of Iron Mike Productions.<\/p>\n<p>The Brooklyn-born fighter, now 47, developed his concussive craft in upstate New York, and that is where he will make his debut as a promoter.<\/p>\n<p>His first show, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Despite his sordid history with promoters, Tyson is excited about the new endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve me,\u201d he laughed, \u201cthe last thing I ever thought I\u2019d be doing would be returning to boxing as a promoter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut these two great businessmen approached me and I loved their ideas. I\u2019m going to be very hands-on, personally checking on the conditioning and style of all our fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, who clearly loves talking about the nitty-gritty of boxing, also revealed ambitions beyond simply promoting professional bouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to put together an amateur team that competes with teams from other countries,\u201d he said. \u201cI even want to work with kids who are just starting out and haven\u2019t even had their first bout.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b9efc_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Tyson. Photo: Reuters Mike Tyson will make his anticipated boxing comeback on August 23, but he will not be in his fighting togs. The former heavyweight champion is returning to the world of the ring as a promoter and president of Iron Mike Productions. The Brooklyn-born fighter, now 47, developed his concussive craft in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}