The card for Tyson vs. Paul will also see Katie Taylor take on Amanda Serrano best division in boxing right now what is being promoted as “the most anticipated rematch in women’s boxing history,” after Taylor won via a split decision in front of a capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden, successfully defending her women’s lightweight titles in the WBA, IBF, WBO and WBC in the process.

On his right forearm, Tyson has a dragon tattoo which is easily the most impressive of all his artwork. This is the one tattoo there is little information on, with nobody being sure of the tattoo artist or the actual meaning behind the tattoo. Tyson himself hasn’t discussed the ink but as The Sun detailed, “In Chinese culture, the dragon represents strength, wisdom, and freedom,” so it wouldn’t be a stretch to think Tyson knows this and wanted the tattoo to represent these things. Or maybe he just really likes dragons? We will never know until he comments on the artwork.

Pro boxing in China, long outlawed during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, experienced a brief renaissance (or a “Rebellion” as a New Yorker profile termed it) in 2013 when two-time gold medalist Zou Shiming signed with Top Rank and kicked off a series of Vegas-style boxing events in Macau. Zhang’s own introduction to the sport began many years earlier, when he watched the first meeting between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield in 1996.

7:50 p.m. ET/ 0:50 p.m. GMT: It’s been a long night and a very entertaining one. Now, it’s the main event. Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is looking to take down Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang. We switch back to round-by-round coverage. Will we need it?

When Tyson got the face tattoo, he agreed in writing that all drawings, artwork, and photographs of it belonged to Whitmill’s Paradox-Studio of Dermagraphics, an uncommon step in the tattoo industry. In The Hangover’s 2011 sequel, The Hangover Part II, the character Stu Price (played by Ed Helms) gets a face tattoo almost identical to Tyson’s. After seeing a poster depicting the tattooed Stu, Whitmill registered a copyright for the tattoo and then on April 28, 2011 filed Whitmill v. Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., seeking to enjoin The Hangover’s distributor, Warner Bros., from using the tattoo in the movie or its promotional materials. Describing the face tattoo as “one of the most distinctive tattoos in the nation”, Whitmill did not challenge “Tyson’s right to use or control his identity” but challenged Warner Bros.’ use of the design itself, without having asked his permission or given him credit.

Round 6: Stiff right hand lands by Sheeraz. Some beautiful boxing by the Englishman who is having a field day. He’s not just outboxing his man, but he’s hurting him with singles and doubles. Jab snaps Ammo’s head back, and then Sheeraz follows up with the right uppercut.

Die genauen Gagen für den Kampf sind noch nicht bekannt, aber die Zahlen, die in Umlauf gebracht werden, sind atemberaubend. Jake Paul spricht von möglichen 300 Millionen Dollar, während Tyson sogar von einer Milliarde Dollar in einem Podcast sprach. Wie viel Wahrheit hinter diesen Zahlen steckt, bleibt abzuwarten.

Zhilei Zhang, qui monte sur le ring avec un bilan de 26 victoires et 21 KO depuis ses débuts professionnels en 2014, a perdu son dernier combat contre Joseph Parker en mars 2024 par décision majoritaire. Étant donné que Zhang et Wilder ont tous deux connu la défaite contre Parker récemment, Zhang pourrait avoir du mal à faire face aux prouesses agressives de Wilder en matière de KO. La position de Zhang, qui est celle d’un boxeur sudiste, représente un défi unique pour Wilder.

In a moving and tragic interview with Mike Tyson that was part of HBO’s Real Sports, he admitted to doing cocaine to deal with Exodus’s death. He recounted being in the pediatric ICU and seeing all the other parents whose kids were also near death and questioning his own existence. At the same time, he just couldn’t handle it, so he did cocaine for a week just to get some sort of high.

Zhang, though, will be afforded another crack at Parker due to the rematch clause. ESPN’s No. 5 heavyweight, Zhang’s previous loss was a controversial decision defeat to contender Filip Hrgovic in 2022, another bout where he scored a knockdown in defeat.

From 1992 to 1995, while in prison for the rape of Desiree Washington, Tyson read a large number of books, including works by Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong. Spike Lee sent Tyson a copy of tennis player Arthur Ashe’s deathbed memoir, Days of Grace. Tyson was moved by the book and respected Ashe’s ability to be nonconfrontational and admired his political views and his success as a black athlete in a white-dominated world. Tyson got prison tattoos of both men on his biceps: A portrait of Mao, captioned with “Mao” in all-caps, on the left; a portrait of Ashe beneath the words “Days of Grace” on the right. Gerald Early views the Mao and Ashe tattoos as together “symboliz both newfound self-control and his revision of black cool”, with Mao representing strength and authority. Clifton Brown in The New York Times describes the Ashe tattoo as “a contradiction” with Tyson’s “fits of rage”. Early and biographer Richard Hoffer cast the two bicep tattoos as an unusual combination of, in Hoffer’s words, “alternate icons”.