Mike Tyson showed glimpses of his destructive prime Saturday night during the 54-year-old boxing icons return to the ring for an exhibition bout with 51-year-old Roy Jones Jr.
Boxing
The MGM Grand Garden debuted Jan. 29, 1994 with a boxing match pitting Julio Cesar Chavez against a lesser lightweight named Frankie Randall. Big-time prizefighting in Las Vegas was about to undergo a seismic shift.
Saul “Canelo” Alvarez is back in San Diego training for his Sept. 15 rematch against Gennady Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena.
At a press conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, long-time ring announcer Michael Buffer discussed the rematch between Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and Gennady “GGG” Golovkin set for Las Vegas on May 5.
Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. “officially” arrived in Las Vegas on Tuesday for the world welterweight unification title showdown Saturday at the MGM Grand Garden. And the two superstar boxers’ arrivals were as different as their personalities themselves.
If Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao ultimately meet in the ring, it might have been a canceled airplane trip and a chance get-together Tuesday in Miami that helped make the dream megafight a reality.
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