{"id":22010,"date":"2013-08-20T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/tyson-to-make-debut-as-professional-boxing-promoter\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T11:37:48","slug":"tyson-to-make-debut-as-professional-boxing-promoter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/tyson-to-make-debut-as-professional-boxing-promoter\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyson to make debut as professional boxing promoter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=13947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-13947  \" alt=\"In this November 22, 1986, photo, Mike Tyson, right, delivers a blow to Trevor Berbick during a bout in Las Vegas. Photo: AP\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f88a8_5212e17f8ec0c.image_-600x487.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this November 22, 1986, photo, Mike Tyson, right, delivers a blow to Trevor Berbick during a bout in Las Vegas. Photo: AP<\/p>\n<p>Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will make his debut as a professional promoter when Iron Mike Productions presents \u201cTyson Is Back!\u201d at the Turning Stone Resort Casino Event Center on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The event will feature a world championship doubleheader, airing live on the 2013 season finale of ESPN Friday Night Fights. Tyson will participate in all fight week activities at Turning Stone.<\/p>\n<p>In Friday\u2019s main event, IBF Super Featherweight champion Argenis \u201cLa Tormenta\u201d Mendez (21-2, 11 KOs), of the Dominican Republic, headlines in his first title defense against Arash Usmanee (20-1, 10 KOs), a native of Afghanistan now living in Montreal. The bout is scheduled for 12 rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Undefeated Claudio \u201cThe Matrix\u201d Marrero (14-0, 11 KOs), of the Dominican Republic, takes on Jesus Cueller (22-1, 18 KOs), of Argentina, in the 12-round co-feature for the vacant WBA interim Featherweight title. Undercard bouts are to be announced and all fights are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am thrilled, bringing my first fight, as Iron Mike Productions, to the Turning Stone Resort Casino for ESPN,\u201d the International Boxing Hall of Famer said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpstate New York is very special to me and brings back nostalgic memories when I was a determined amateur on the rise. <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tyson-gets-back-into-boxing\/\" target=\"_blank\">I want to be there and guide my fighters as they take these same stepping stones in their quest for greatness<\/a>. 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Photo: AP Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, will make his debut as a professional promoter when Iron Mike Productions presents \u201cTyson Is Back!\u201d at the Turning Stone Resort Casino Event Center [&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-22010","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\/22010","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=22010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}