Saturday, July 25, 2020

Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr is not a ‘real fight,’ insists commission director

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Mike Tyson’s exhibition bout with Roy Jones Jr will absolutely not be a ‘real fight,’ insists California State Athletic Commission executive director Andy Foster, and the public should not be misled otherwise.

The bout between the two former world champions was announced this week as an eight-round exhibition to be held at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California on 12 September.

The term ‘exhibition’ leaves room for interpretation, but the man in charge of commissioning the contest insists it will not be a violent affair.

Foster says that at most the legendary fighters should ‘spar hard’ but they are aware that they shouldn’t be trying to knock each other out.

‘We can’t mislead the public as to this is some kind of real fight,’ Foster told BoxingScene. ‘They can get into it a little bit, but I don’t want people to get hurt. They know the deal.

‘It’s an exhibition. They can exhibit their boxing skills, but I don’t want them using their best efforts to hurt each other.

‘They’re going to spar hard, but they shouldn’t be going for a knockout. This isn’t a record-book type of fight.

‘This is not world championship boxing right now. It’s not what this is. People shouldn’t be getting knocked out.

‘The public can see what kind of shape Roy and Mike are still in.’

It was put to Tyson that he would have to take his foot off the gas pedal, but Iron Mike is not so sure he will be able to.

‘Listen, anybody that knows me, I don’t know how to put any pedal, I only know one way of fighting and that’s just what it is,’ Tyson told TMZ.

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