Round 5: Williams lets his hands go but gets clipped by a solid left on the counter. Another left scores by Sheeraz. Williams gets some rhythm and finds the left hand again. Sheeraz gets back on the left jab, which is a quickly loaded punch that’s keeping the American honest.
In 2020, while Zhang made a rare visit back home the day after Chinese New Year, his father died of a sudden cardiac arrest at home during COVID-19 lockdown in China. Zhang mistakenly believed his father to be choking and attempted the Heimlich maneuver to no avail.
Hrgović participated in the 2010 AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. He beat Jozsef Zsigmund in the first round, Fargan Omarov in the quarterfinals and Joseph Parker in the semifinals to earn a place in the tournament finals, where he faced Tony Yoka. It was the first of three future meetings in amateur competitions. He beat Yoka by points to win the gold medal. Hrgović earned a 10 000 kuna payout from the Croatian Boxing Federation for this victory.
57-year-old Mike Tyson was once the most feared man on the planet. Not only was he considered one of the greatest heavyweights in the world, but he also had an impressive record to back it up. After his retirement in 2005, he has participated in a few exhibition matches, with the last one of these coming against Ray Jones in 2020 with the contest ending in a draw. Tyson’s purse for that fight was reportedly $10 million.
Unsurprisingly, the video has left most of the followers spellbound. One of the users said, “This is going to be so great… Jakey boy has no idea what is coming for him.” Another pointed out, “Jake may not show for this. No one would blame home. This isn’t some mid-tier in their best day, guy. This the champ.”
Yet the case continued, and Warners attorneys must have been concerned that Perry suggested she saw merit in the case, even referring to the studio’s defenses as “silly.” In subsequent court filings, Warners said that it planned to digitally alter the tattoo for the home video version of the film if the case didn’t settle quickly.
She refused food in the first few months of detention, and her lawyer had said she was then being force-fed through a tube. She remained on partial hunger strike until July 2023, when her weight had reportedly halved to just 37kg (81.6lb).
Round 1: Joyce immediately starts circling away from Zhang’s power left hand. Zhang fires one into the body. They continue to circle in the middle of the ring. Both fighters just jabbing from distance. Zhang flicks another left to the body. There’s a straight right from Joyce. Plenty of feints with few significant punches in this round so far.
But an iconic tattoo having a whole different shape takes the cake. Just imagine a prime boxer with raw power, arrested multiple times, but sporting cute hearts on his face! A prime sentiment on X (@JiujitsuOtter) reacted “I’d buy him a beer for having the heart not to do it and made the most iconic tattoo in sports history instead.”
“This is what we’re site here for, we’re professional fighters. We came to entertain the crowd and we did it. I hope everyone enjoyed my performance. Thank you to everyone who came here today and witnessed my greatness in front of Chinese social media.”
That Tyson’s return to the ring comes against Paul makes the event an instant spectacle. The polarizing twenty-seven-year-old YouTuber has posted a 9–1 record since he broke into professional boxing. And along the way, Paul has become the face of the sport’s push to reach new fans by winning over celebrities, influencers, and disrupters. Older boxing fans will be watching to see if the old champ still has what it takes to smack down a mouthy newcomer. Paul’s followers want to see him knock off a legend. The fight will be held at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, home of the Dallas Cowboys, and streamed on Netflix for the platform’s 270 million subscribers in more than 190 countries.
Regardless of who comes out on top in July, I can’t help but think the true winner here is the professional boxing industry. Logan and Jake Paul have both put the sport back on the map with these sideshow bouts, and made legends like Floyd Mayweather very wealthy in the process.
The fight between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson is happening July 20th at AT&T Stadium, and of course, will be streamed over on Netflix. I’m sure we’ll see a lot more antics ahead of the big fight, so I’m making sure my schedule is cleared that weekend and keeping an eye on both of their social media accounts.
“Today belongs to me,” Zhang said through a translator after punching the air and shouting, “Chinese power”. “… I’m 39 years old, but I’m disciplined. I train hard. Next step, I’m going for the title.”
The decision to get the face tattoo would be emblematic of this ultimately troubled period of Tyson’s life, and reflect on his future choices. In the years since Tyson retired, he’s more or less rehabilitated his public image as a troubled brute by being open in interviews, with self-deprecating humor, and getting involved in some cheesy B-movies, such as 2017’s legendarily cringetastic China Salesmen (prepare to facepalm your way through the fight with Stephen Seagal, viewable on YouTube). Tyson has started his own weed empire, Tyson Holistic, which, according to the Sun, earns more than $675,000 a month. Tyson himself reportedly cuts into his profit margins quite a bit by consuming (with his friends) $40,000’s worth every month at his Tyson Ranch in Mojave Desert, as Marketwatch says. He’s also talked about building a cannabis-themed resort.
