Tyson, 54, will face former four-division World Champion and onetime best pound-for-pound fighter on the planet, Roy Jones Jr.
helped fund. Triller has also obtained exclusive streaming rights to the soon-to-be-released, ten-part docuseries featuring behind-the-scenes, pre-fight footage. Two episodes will be released each week leading up to the match.A three-hour live event, the Tyson vs. Jones fight is set for eight rounds and will be part of a multiple fight card. The program will also include significant undercard matches as well as musical performances to be announced in the coming weeks.
Tyson says the League is “not only for fighters [but for] baseball players, basketball players, soccer players…everybody who society says is over the hill, but they still have it in them.” A cursory scan of Tyson’s Instagram page is intriguing. He’s posted photos of himself with Jimmy Connors, Sugar Ray Leonard and, most notably, several photos with former foe Evander Holyfield, with whom Tyson had two epic battles.
Roy Jones Jr., 51, is a versatile boxer who is a natural super middleweight. Jones won numerous championships in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions. In 2003 Jones won the WBA heavyweight title, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a Heavyweight title in 106 years. He ended his career at heavyweight and segued into the broadcast booth at HBO.
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