Boxing should be taken out back and put out of it's misery...

[The Prowler]

It won't be long....MMA is excelerating the aging process.

Mike Tyson, with the "help" of Don King, is planning a return to the ring to fight Evander Holyfield.

Done Deal: The Return of Mike Tyson to Boxing

The heavyweight division has been considered boring by most boxing fans. The safety first, big European heavyweights have not captured the imagination of the American public, and neither have the challengers from the states that have given non-efforts or have been mediocrities to begin with.  The 1990s was a great and exciting time for heavyweight boxing, and now a man that made that decade and the one before it incredibly exciting is coming back to boxing.

Iron Mike Tyson, 50-6, 44 KO’s, has been out of the ring since an embarrassing sixth round TKO loss to Kevin McBride in 2005.  Prior to that defeat, he was stopped by Danny Williams and a couple fights before that, he was demolished by Lennox Lewis.  Times have changed, however, and Iron Mike is coming back to the sport that he helped flourish when he was mopping the floors with heavyweights in the 1980s and 90s.

According to a source close to Tyson, former Promoter Don King has a tentative deal for Tyson to return to the ring in late 2010.  The initial plan is to have Tyson-Holyfield III, but there is rumored hesitation on the part of Iron Mike, and there is a plan B.

A Connecticut heavyweight named Tony Grano, former cruiserweight champ, Jean Marc Mormeck, Vinny Maddalone, and Derric Rossy have all been mentioned as potential first or second comeback opponents for Tyson.

http://www.ringsidereport.com/?p=1435

[AUTiger1]

No, what needs to happen to boxing is for people like Don King, De La Hoya, Gary Shaw and Bob Arum to die and fall of the face of the earth.  They are the biggest promoters in the sport and they are also the most crooked and will do anything to make a dollar.  That is why you have people like Tyson wanting to make a comeback and Holyfield fighting about 10 years past his prime.  Of course having a decent American heavywieght would help as well.

Oh yeah, Texas is more than likely the only state that will take this fight.  Nevada, New Jersey, California along with a host of other states have denied Holyfield a medical clearence to fight. His last three or four fights were in TX for that very reason.