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Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson Fight: Netflix Draws Criticism for Buffering, Freezing and Lagging During Live Event

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Watch Women's Boxing: Katie Taylor vs Amanda Serrano 2!

In 2022, we were treated to the biggest women's boxing match of all time (in the US at least). Ireland's pride and joy Katie Taylor faced off with one of Puerto Rico's greatest fighters of all time Amanda Serrano in front of a sellout Madison Square Garden crowd in NYC. It was a historic night for the sport that has yet to be matched. You can watch the fight on YouTube.

It has taken two years, but we are finally getting a rematch. This Friday (Nov. 15), Taylor and Serrano are set to meet again in Texas as part of the Mike Tyson-Jake Paul (stupid ass fight) card on Netflix. And to help emphasize why this is so important, let me lay the careers of both fighters.

Depending on who you ask, Katie Taylor is the reason women's boxing got added to the Olympics in 2012. The Irish star actually participated in the first ever sanctioned women's fight in Ireland at the age of 15. A standout amateur, she was a multiple time European Games, European, and World Champion as well as an Olympic gold medal in 2012. All together, I think she's won 18 amateur gold medals. While her efforts came up short at the 2016 Olympics, she took that drive to the pro ranks. She quickly racked up wins before winning a world title in her 7th fight. She then proceeded to unite all 4 major belts to become the undisputed champion at 135lbs and climbed to P4P #1 in the sport. A last second change of opponent back in 2023 led her up a weight class to 140lbs. There, she faced off with the undisputed champion Chantelle Cameron. The fight was Taylor's first ever as a pro in her home country of Ireland. She would lose but was given a rematch for later in the year where she picked up a controversial decision win. She now has claim to being a two division undisputed champion.

Puerto Rican sensation Amanda Serrano is a long time veteran of the women's pro scene. Her career started in 2009. She has plugged away at this sport methodically for 15 years, picking up an insane 47-2 record. Most impressively, Serrano has been a world champion in 7 divisions. There is only one other boxer in history who has that many divisional crowns, Manny Pacquiao (8). She also is the only Puerto Rican boxer to have the title of undisputed at a weight calss (featherweight) in the four belt era. She is a truly generational talent in women's boxing and it's been incredibly gratifying to see her finally get the big paydays and media recognition she has deserved.

With both Serrano and Taylor getting up there in age, we do not have many chances left to see them compete at a high level. So we shoudl all definitely be tuning in to watch them fight now while we still can. I can honestly say this is arguably the most important women's fight boxing has ever seen and I'm excited to see these two square off again.

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No, because I cannot befriend or be romantically involved with someone who just shit talks wrestling 24/7 or tries mansplaining shit to me as if I don’t comprehend my own passion.

I’ve had guys say to me:

“Wrestling is fake. You should watch some real sports like NFL or MMA.”

Like bitch. Do you really think Football and MMA aren’t rigged? They’re having Jake Paul vs Mike Tyson, but you still think it ain’t rigged. 😂

Oh, and my favorite.

“Why are you crying over some guys winning a belt. It’s fake and it’s not that serious.”

Bitch why did you cry when the Patriots won the SuperBowl for the, what, 12th time?

✨Shut the fuck up.✨

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🥊Mike Tyson 🥊

In honor of tonight’s fight, (Mike Tyson vs. Jake Paul) I want to highlight heavyweight champion Michael Gerard Tyson and give him his flowers 💐.

Mike Tyson made his professional debut as an 18-year-old. 🥊

Mike also known as “Iron Mike” is a former American Professional Boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005.

Tyson won his first 19 fights by knockouts.

He was undisputed world heavyweight champion from 1987-1990.

He became the youngest heavyweight champion at age 20 in 1986.

He has a 50-6 professional record, with 44 knockouts and two no-contests.

He was the first professional boxer to hold the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles simultaneously.

After almost 20 years later, he is scheduled to fight Jake Paul.

I can’t help but to feel like this was purposely planned to make a living legend’s legacy get overshadowed by a younger, fit boxer who is currently in his prime.

Mike Tyson is 58 years of age and is now fighting Jake Paul just feels wrong and racist. This could just be me but just from clips of Jake Paul saying “he’s coming to take the crown 👑”. I also saw clips of his mom saying she would “kill Mike Tyson”. Even though she was “joking” and lol’d it off, it’s basically no respect for a living LEGEND. 😒

Nonetheless, we can see right through their tactics.

So Mike Tyson, here are your flowers!

💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐

Thank you for all those legendary and iconic fights that my grandparents, parents, and family have enjoyed over the years.

You are truly one of one ☝🏾 and no matter the results of this fight, we know you’re still one of THE GREATEST to ever step in a boxing ring. 🥊

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How to watch Mike Tyson vs. Logan Paul

Date: Friday, Nov. 15

Time: 8 p.m. ET

Streaming: Netflix

BOXING Tyson-Paul is ‘high theater’

Some call it a gimmick, but fight could do wonders for the sport

Boxing is a sport driven by the beauty of what elite athletes can do with their hands and feet.

Fans marvel at the brutality because few possess the skills to propel them to greatness.

It’s also an activity that reveals two people who just want to fight for money.

That is what’s happening Friday night at AT&T Stadium when Mike Tyson and Jake Paul square off in one of the biggest boxing matches of the year.

Tyson is among the few people in sports history to become an icon for his brutality in the ring.

Paul is part of a new generation of athletes who garner attention on social media.

His claim to fame, as an actor and YouTuber-turned-boxer, is bringing attention to himself and making huge sums of money.

Tyson’s claim to fame is hurting people in the ring.

The fight is expected to print money for the event’s promoters, add more subscribers to Netflix — which will stream the fight — and reintroduce a new generation of fans to Tyson, who fought in the 1980s and 1990s and was once considered “the baddest man on the planet.”

It’s also expected to increase the presence of Paul, who has developed a generation of fans who follow his exploits on social media, including more than 20 million subscribers on YouTube.

“I’m here to make $40 million and knock out a legend,” Paul said at a news conference this summer.

“Who else is he going to fight to make this happen?” asked Tyson, who became the youngest heavyweight champion at 20.

“You got to look at the facts. We got a YouTuber fighting the greatest fighter who ever lived.”

The biggest question regarding Tyson-Paul is how it became the biggest boxing event of the year in what promoters and the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation are calling a sanctioned fight.

The ground rules

The eight-round bout with two-minute rounds and 14-ounce gloves mirrors an exhibition.

Most marquee fights are 10 or 12 rounds, with younger or journeymen fighters involved in eight-round bouts.

The standard for boxing gloves is 10 or 12 ounces.

It’s a fight that will count toward the official records of

Tyson (50-6, 44 knockouts) and

Paul (10-1, 7 KOs).

Yet, a victory doesn’t move Tyson into contender status, something he’s not interested in given he’s 58.

And Paul, 27, isn’t any closer to fighting for a legitimate pro boxing title than he is to becoming the starting quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys.

So, what does this mean to boxing?

People who have been around the fight game for more than 30 years struggle to make sense of it.

“It’s something that is unanswerable,” said boxing promoter Don King, considered one of the best in the history of the sport.

“It really means nothing. Mike is one of the bravest, greatest fighters of all time. Jake is a great follow, has a tremendous base. You deal with what is real.”

Maybe that’s what this fight is about — the show.

Sideshows

It won’t be the first time boxing has had a sideshow connected to it.

In 1976, Muhammad Ali fought Japanese wrestler Antonio Inoki in Japan.

In 2017, Floyd Mayweather, at 40 years old, came out of retirement to fight MMA star Connor McGregor.

Mayweather won by TKO after wearing down McGregor in a fight that drew 4.3 million pay-per-view buys with a total revenue of $600 million.

In 2020, Tyson fought Roy Jones Jr. to a draw in an exhibition on a fight card also featuring Paul.

On that card, Paul knocked out former NBA player Nate Robinson prompting music artist Snoop Dogg, who was one of the commentators for the fight, to break out in a song mocking Robinson.

In 2021, Mayweather fought Jake Paul’s older brother, Logan, to a draw.

Even former Olympic figure skaters have turned to boxing.

Tonya Harding, a former Olympic skater notorious for hiring someone to injure her rival Nancy Kerrigan in 1994, decided to box when her skating career fizzled out.

Harding fought Melissa Yans in the parking lot of a strip club in 2003.

‘Three-ring circus’

“We’ve always done exhibitions, the three-ring circus. It’s high theater,” said Lou DiBella, a former sports executive at HBO who now promotes and manages fighters.

“But when a state regulates a sport to provide legitimacy to a guy on AARP that makes all the rules, that’s messed up. I’m not against this event. There is no standardized oversight of the sport of boxing in the United States of America.”

The Tyson-Paul fight was originally scheduled for July 20 but Tyson suffered a medical issue on a flight to Los Angeles.

It was later revealed Tyson suffered from ulcers and he was instructed by doctors to push the fight back.

While attending a Cowboys game in September, Tyson said he was nearly healthy and had plans to knock out Paul.

The health scare didn’t deter the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation from clearing Tyson to fight.

Tela Mange, communication manager for the licensing agency, said fighters over the age of 36 go through additional medical testing and must submit “favorable results of an EEG and EKG test before they will be allowed to compete in a combative sports competition in Texas.”

Mange said state-appointed physicians will discuss Tyson’s medical history with him before the fight.

“Can we agree a 58-year-old icon who smokes a lot of weed, fighting a guy who all he does is stay in shape, it should be called an exhibition,” DiBella said. “I’m going to watch it.”

And that’s the point.

Is this a good thing?

Netflix is offering the fight to its 282.7 million subscribers and expects that number to increase as interest in watching the fight builds.

Some believe this fight will hurt the sport by taking attention from its current stars.

This year, the sport awarded the first four-belt heavyweight champion in Oleksandr Usyk, saw a highly anticipated bout won by the popular Ryan Garcia and featured quite possibly the fight of the year between Sebastian Fundora and Tim Tszyu.

There also were two fights by Mexican star Canelo Alvarez, the biggest pay-per-view draw of the moment.

But here is Tyson-Paul, with the expected massive following.

“It brings Netflix in and it will be shown to a worldwide audience,” said Bob Arum, like King one of best promoters in the sport for more than 30 years.

“It is good for boxing. It doesn’t figure to be a great fight with Mike being older and Jake isn’t a good fighter, but it is a good card. It’s a big plus for boxing. It will get a tremendous audience, something the sport needs.”

The winner of Tyson-Paul is almost insignificant.

The spectacle of fighting at AT&T Stadium, on Netflix, with the Cowboys brand associated with it and an excellent fight card that features three title fights is more than enough.

“It think there’s a lot of interest, excitement,” said Stephen Espinoza, a former Showtime sports executive who plans to attend the fight.

“Mike is an icon. Jake is committed to growing the sport. The enthusiasm is good for the sport of boxing. The card is very good. I’m sure there’s some resentment from boxing people that Jake has this platform, but a lot of fighters are getting attention because of it.” Friday night will tell us plenty about Paul’s drawing power. AT&T Stadium’s capacity could reach 70,000, generating a record gate for a boxing match in Texas.

One can question this type of fight, but you can’t dispute the marketing, money and attention it will bring to boxing.

Main card begins at 7 p.m. today (Netflix) Clash of styles

Older, calmer Tyson meets brash Paul

It has been promoted as the most-anticipated boxing event of the year.

The fight will be streamed to more than 280 million Netflix subscribers and is expected to attract 70,000 fans to AT&T Stadium.

The only one who seems uninterested in the big event is one of its protagonists.

With his gaze lost on the horizon most of the time at Wednesday’s news conference to promote the fight, a quiet and expressionless Mike Tyson seemed indifferent toward his Friday fight against Jake Paul.

The 58-year-old former world heavyweight champion was not even a shadow of what he was in his prime.

The only reaction that brought back memories of the Tyson of yesteryear was when a reporter asked him how he would feel about losing to the 27-year-old Paul.

Tyson remained silent for a few seconds, then raised his voice to say: “I’m not going to lose.”

The snub provoked a roar from the fans present at the venue.

In his glory days, Tyson was seen as a man of explosive character, not afraid to express controversial opinions.

His ferocity in the ring earned the nickname “The Baddest Man on the Planet.”

At Wednesday’s news conference, he showed a side of his personality few know, but one who does is Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain.

In June 2012, Tyson and Beristain, a trainer from Mexico, were inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y.

“Tyson began to cry during his acceptance speech, tears overcame him, his voice broke, and he could not finish. He started crying; it actually shook me,” Beristain, 85, said in a telephone interview.

“I got to know another side of Tyson there. I got to know the human being. I got to know the sensitive man that many feared.”

Twelve years after he was inducted, Tyson will return to the ring for a sanctioned bout for the first time.

It will be a clash between two generations:

One fighter represents the old guard with a career built on epic victories in the ring.

The other represents a generation that seeks immediate success and recognition based on “likes” on social media.

In one corner will be Tyson, who made his professional debut in 1985 and took the international sports scene by storm thanks to his devastating performances in the ring, but also for his erratic behavior and run-ins with the law.

In the other corner will be Paul, who built his base of millions of fans on social media and is now paid a lot of money by boxing promoters to attract a new generation.

“I bring excitement to this sport, I bring knockouts. I like to knock people out, and I will continue to push myself to entertain people,” Paul said.

A packed crowd is expected at AT&T Stadium to witness the showdown.

For Netflix’s streaming service, the fight is expected to generate high ratings and big revenues.

“People will go to the stadium and watch the fight because of the great admiration they have for Tyson, not so much because of the guy who claims to be a boxer,” said Beristain, who trained 23 world champions, including Juan Manuel Marquez, Oscar de la Hoya and Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Tyson’s last sanctioned fight was in 2005, when he retired in a bout against Kevin McBride.

In 58 official fights, Tyson has a career record of 50 wins, six losses and two no-contests.

Of his 50 wins, 44 came via knockout, five were by decision and one was by disqualification.

In his six losses, five were knockouts and one was a disqualification. Tyson has recently fought in exhibitions, including one against Roy Jones Jr. in November 2020.

The fight against Paul will be classified as a sanctioned professional fight by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulations.

The significant difference between a sanctioned pro fight and an exhibition is the outcome counts against a boxer’s record.

Paul has a professional boxing record of 10-1.

He began his career in 2020 with a mix of fights between boxers, social media personalities and MMA fighters.

The rules for the fight between Tyson and Paul will differ from those of a conventional battle.

There will be a maximum of eight rounds.

The rounds will last two minutes, a minute shorter than the standard three-minute round.

The boxing gloves will weigh 14 ounces rather than the standard 10-ounce gloves used in sanctioned pro fights by boxers who weigh 147 pounds or more.

Many state boxing commissions require three-minute rounds and 10-ounce gloves for pro bouts involving males who weigh 147 pounds or more.

Not so in Texas.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which oversees combat sports in Texas, deferred to the requests of the promoter of the Tyson-Paul bout when it came to rules.

“I have never been a supporter of these types of fights. I think they hurt boxing. They take away the seriousness of boxing,” Beristain said.

The fight between Tyson and Paul was supposed to occur three months ago, but Tyson suffered an ulcer flare-up that postponed the bout.

It began during a flight from Miami to Los Angeles on May 26, according to Tyson.

“I went to the bathroom and I threw up blood,” Tyson said in a Netflix documentary to promote the fight.

“The next thing I know, I’m on the floor defecating tar.”

According to Tyson, the source of the trauma was a 2.5-inch bleeding ulcer.

Beristain, who remains active as a trainer in Mexico City, considers it dangerous for Tyson to enter the ring at his age, but he knows the business behind it.

“I think Tyson should never fight again, but if he’s going to pocket a few million dollars, it’s OK because he deserves it. He really deserves it.”

mike tyson on the back of a toad smoking a joint with a subwoofer behind him and people tubing in a lazy…

Around five in the morning, Mike Tyson opens his eyes, reaches for his lighter, sparks a joint, runs for an hour on the treadmill, showers, dresses, kisses the kids, kisses the wife, and eats some oatmeal, egg whites, and broccoli while he waits for the car that will take him to the office. 

The office is where blessings come into his life.

The office is a converted redbrick warehouse in El Segundo, California. 

It's located a few minutes from the airport, on a blank commercial strip across the street from a sprawling Chevron refinery. 

If you approach it via surface roads, you pass buildings bearing the names of the aerospace companies that transformed California in the 20th century—Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin—the way the booming cannabis industry is transforming it today.

You will soon forget this, though, because something crazy is almost always happening at Mike Tyson's office. 

You never know who will come around the corner, through the big roll-up garage door. 

Sean Penn came by one day, and Roseanne, too. 

One day, one of the creators of He-Man came in for a general meeting. 

He is now a professional inventor and wanted to see if Mike Tyson and his partners needed anything invented. 

When the inventor asked a room full of people including Mike Tyson if they remembered He-Man, Mike Tyson said, “Yeah, love that,” and then, by way of explaining what he loved about it, added, “Skeletor.”

*Shortly after this story was published, it was revealed Tyson Holistic changed its name to The Ranch Companies, which owns and operates Tyson Ranch, The Ranch at Palm Desert, the KIND Music Festival, and more.

The company that Mike Tyson and his partners are running out of this office is called Tyson Holistic.* 

Ostensibly it's a marijuana company, one of more than 10,000 new businesses launched since California voted to legalize recreational pot in 2016—one more purple-green bud in a superbloom of weed start-ups. 

Taxation, community opposition, and a byzantine regulatory environment have slowed the state's evolution into a pothead paradise. 

But recreational weed is still projected to be a $4 billion-plus business in California by 2025, at which time legal marijuana is expected to be generating nearly $150 billion globally. 

Tyson Holistic is angling for a piece of that, putting Mike Tyson's brand on jars of Purple Punch and KO Kush, expanding into CBD dog treats and a hemp-oil-enhanced muscle rub. 

But Tyson Holistic is also a kind of magnet, an open door to new ideas and new ways of making money, and there are many of those, here in California after the green rush.

It's good for Mike Tyson to be in a place like this. 

Stabilizing. 

He comes in, checks out some meetings, checks on some deals, smokes a few joints. 

Possibly he will fall asleep in a chair in the back room, under a giant black-and-white photograph of himself surveying an expanse of desert where he will someday build the weed resort of the future, a project we'll get to in a moment. 

Usually he goes home at five o'clock to hang out with the family, maybe watch a little YouTube. 

But some days when Mike Tyson goes into the office in El Segundo, things happen to him that have never happened before.

One day a man named Dr. Gerry came by the office, to be Mike Tyson's guest on what ended up being the first episode of Mike's new podcast, an interview show called Hotboxin' with Mike Tyson. 

Dr. Gerry's real name is Gerardo Sandoval. 

He's a gynecologist and obstetrician originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, and an evangelist for the spiritually and psychologically transformative properties of a substance called 5-MeO-DMT, said to be the most powerful entheogen in existence—an express elevator to cosmic consciousness.

5-MeO-DMT is produced in large amounts by Bufo alvarius, a rare species of toad commonly known as the Colorado river toad or the Sonoran desert toad. 

When preyed upon, the toad secretes a venom that repels predators by causing them to, in scientific terms, trip balls. 

Psychonauts discovered that you can milk the toads' venom, dry it out, and smoke it. 

The substance's close relative, DMT, is an active ingredient in the traditional shamanic brew known as ayahuasca, but what they say about smoking the toad is that it's like riding a rocket to the same place of total ego death that ayahuasca takes you to by riverboat.

So Dr. Gerry sat in the podcast studio at the Tyson Holistic office and explained the toad to Tyson and his co-host, Eben Britton, who is a former NFL lineman turned cannabis advocate, with a canyon-deep Tony Robbins voice. 

Dr. Gerry told Mike Tyson that smoking the toad was “like freebase jumping into the heart of God and coming back, in just 20 minutes.” 

Mike Tyson sat calmly and listened. 

Then he went into another room with Dr. Gerry and smoked the toad.

Of course he did. 

There was never a chance that he would not smoke the toad. 

Dr. Gerry had him at So there's this weird thing, and you can smoke it.

“You have to look at it from my perspective,” Mike Tyson says, months later. 

“I'm going into this situation thinking I've seen everything. I had done some heavy drugs. I'd done acid before. So I'm thinking, Give me that stuff. Let me check this out.”

So Mike Tyson heated up the toad venom in a little glass pipe. 

And what was clear almost instantly was that smoking the toad was not like doing other drugs. 

It was nothing like that. 

Tyson found himself in another dimension, moving fast, scared to death. 

He thought about his wife and his kids, how they didn't know where he was or what he'd just done to himself.

“I was just freaking out,” Tyson says. 

“I don't wanna do this no more. I want it to stop. Too late. Couldn't stop. I thought, I fucked up. Oh, shit. I fucked up. What was I trying to prove? I'm dead. I'm dead. It's over. My whole life. Boom. My life is gone. I took these fucking drugs and it killed me. There's no way I'm gonna survive this.”

But then the fear began to pass. 

Mike Tyson began experiencing beautiful things. 

He stood outside his own life and saw it stretched out in linear time, a continuum of Mikes coming and going. 

He saw Aztec symbols, bizarre pyramids, people who had died.

“It's almost like you die and you're reborn,” Tyson says.

He was happy, and he laughed in the room with Dr. Gerry, and when he came back to the podcast studio, he looked like he'd been crying. 

Dr. Gerry said he watched Tyson experience an outpouring of powerful emotions there in the room: 

“I basically witnessed Mike releasing all things that we carry.” 

When Tyson took the toad, he'd been struggling with that burden for a while. 

These days he's mostly sober, except for the weed he smokes pretty much all the time. 

When he met Dr. Gerry, he was in active relapse, in the grip of old habits. 

“I always had my cocaine, my alcoholism,” he'd say later. 

“That was my main stuff. My cocaine and my alcohol. And my sex addiction. Sleeping with strangers and stuff. It just all goes together.”

In the wake of the toad experience, though, all that feels like it's finally behind him in a way it's never been before. 

It feels like so many things are finally behind him.

“And I did it three times,” he says, laughing. 

“I stayed there. I had to do it again. What the hell? I wanted to go back.”

Mike Tyson at work in his El Segundo office.

If you had gone to visit Tyson Holistic in El Segundo even a few months earlier, you might have met a different Mike Tyson than the one hanging out there now.

One day last spring, a different Mike Tyson walked into a different Tyson Holistic office—a smaller one that they have since outgrown. 

He was wearing a black suit and a white shirt with no tie. 

A room full of guests had come to hear Tyson and a group of athletes, doctors, and businessmen talk about cannabis in sports medicine. 

Many of the guests were sports reporters, who were all dressed the same. 

When they stood together talking and eating Togo's sandwiches from the catering table, it looked like an open audition for the role of a guy in a blue shirt and tan pants.

The guest speakers took their seats in a semicircle of couches at the far end of the room. 

Tyson made his way to a leather cigar-club armchair at the 12 o'clock point. 

Once he sat down, he looked like he'd fallen into the chair from a great height and wasn't sure he wouldn't fall further. 

He gripped the chair's arms with big yet strangely delicate-seeming hands. 

His nails were long and buffed shiny. 

His black socks were transparent. 

The reflection of a fluorescent light bounced off his bald head. 

Eben Britton asked him to say a few words.

“Hello, everybody,” he said. 

“My name is Mike, and I've been fighting for 20 years of my life.”

The athletes took turns telling stories from the front lines of a world of hurt. 

The broad strokes were the same. 

They talked about fights, slams, falls, tackles, body checks, dead lifts. 

All manner of mental and physical suffering, coaches and team physicians passing out powerful anti-inflammatories and narcotic painkillers like Tic-Tacs. 

Trauma, and addiction. 

They talked about how cannabis had helped mitigate their pain.

Mike Tyson sat quietly, sometimes looking at people but also looking at nothing. 

He was like one of those paintings whose eyes seem to follow you around the room. 

In a 1996 essay for Transition magazine, the critic Gerald Early wrote, 

“Tyson is not the sum of his myths; he is the remainder.” 

This was how Mike Tyson seemed that day—like what was left of Mike Tyson.

When he was 20 years old, Mike Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. 

In 1988, he and his then wife, actress Robin Givens, gave a joint interview to Barbara Walters in which Givens described him as an abusive husband. 

(Givens did not explicitly allege he hit her, but in 2009 Tyson told Oprah Winfrey, “I have socked [Givens] before, and she socked me before as well. It was just that kind of relationship.”) 

They were divorced in 1989. 

Two years later, Tyson was accused of raping an 18-year-old Miss Black America contestant named Desiree Washingtonin his Indianapolis hotel room. 

He was convicted in 1992 and released in 1995.

Even an increasingly diminished and distracted Tyson remained a powerful pay-per-view draw, and his fights against both worthy opponents and tomato cans brought in record-setting revenue. 

He was stripped of his boxing license by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in 1997, after biting opponent Evander Holyfield's ear during a fight in Las Vegas. 

His license was restored in 1998, and he continued fighting professionally until 2005, when he sat down after the sixth round of a fight with Irish boxer Kevin McBride and declined to fight on. 

At the post-fight press conference, he announced his retirement.

Many things have happened to Tyson since then. 

He eventually began telling the story of Mike Tyson, over and over, to anyone who'd listen. 

He became a professional narrator of his own rise and fall and rise and fall, a cauterized open wound you could walk around in. 

In 2008 he told his story in a documentary directed by James Toback; 

again in 2012, in a Broadway show written by his third wife, Lakiha “Kiki” Tyson, and directed by Spike Lee; 

and in 2013, in Undisputed Truth, a memoir written with celeb-bio consigliere and onetime Bob Dylan affiliate Larry Sloman. 

In each telling of the story, he demonstrates genuine self-abasing humility and undercuts those moments with bursts of sneering vitriol that seem equally genuine. 

Each account invites us into creepy, complicit spectatorship the way Tyson always has—first as a wildly successful practitioner of blood sport and then as a pop-culture train wreck. 

They're attempts to burnish a vexed legacy through confession.

On the issue of what happened between him and Desiree Washington that night in Indianapolis, Tyson has never wavered. 

He maintains that he was falsely accused and convicted, that his intentions were clear and the sex was consensual. 

He reiterates this assertion in the book, the stage show, and the movie. 

In Toback's film—a sympathetic portrait of a convicted sex offender by a director who'd later be accused of sexual misconduct by nearly 400 women soon after the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke—Tyson calls Washington vile names and then recites from Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol while Toback shoots him silhouetted against a sunset.

The myth-maintenance in Tyson and Sloman's Undisputed Truth is less overtly toxic, but Tyson gloats about what seems to have been a GoodFellas-like incarceration experience, thanks to the largesse of starstruck guards; 

he enjoys a variety of food-delivery options and has a sexual relationship with his drug counselor. 

The book lays out the case for Tyson as a victim who became a victimizer, detailing the parental neglect and violent bullying he endured as a child (but not his kidnapping and molestation by a neighborhood predator, which he revealed in an ESPN interview in 2017). 

But Tyson's lifelong substance abuse is the book's real subject. 

His mother feeds him Gordon's gin and Thunderbird to keep him quiet. 

By age 12 he's sampled Mad Dog 20/20, Brass Monkey, cocaine, weed, hash, opium, acid, and angel dust. 

In the New York juvenile-offender system, he says, he's given Thorazine, a powerful anti-psychotic that makes him a vegetable.

He goes on and off Zoloft as needed so he'll be meaner in the ring. 

He is gacked and stoned a lot during his boxing career and occasionally even during boxing matches. 

And when he finally slumps away from the sport, his life is one circle of hell after another until he's finally in Phoenix, partying with fun-loving doctors who introduce him to the recreational use of a morphine drip.

He goes to rehab in Phoenix, as he soon will in many places. 

He gets treated for anger management and sex addiction. 

He watches La Vie en Rose and breaks down crying when they come to take Édith Piaf away from the prostitutes, because he understands exactly why she wants to be there: 

“Some people thrive in misery. You take away their misery and bring them into the light and they die emotionally and spiritually because pain and suffering has been their only comfort. The thought of someone loving them and helping them without wanting anything in return could never enter their minds.”

In the book, he describes himself as a “relapse artist.” 

The book ends with him sober and grateful for each day and determined not to fuck up. 

The cover of the paperback edition touts the addition of a new epilogue that includes a postscript about another relapse. 

For Tyson there is always another epilogue.

A proposal for Tyson Ranch that includes the world's longest lazy river.

In October, a few months after the athlete summit, in a conference room at Tyson Holistic, the company's chief operating officer, Kevin Bell, unrolls maps on a big wooden table. 

Heavy white paper, images of the desert from the air—California in shades of gray, like the surface of the moon.

“This is I-10,” Bell says, his finger tracing the highway that cuts the map in half. 

Then he points to either side of the interstate. 

“This is Desert Hot Springs. This is Palm Springs.”

The site only looks remote. 

It's actually bordered on both sides by development. 

Golf courses, mostly. 

But then there's this one little plot—418 acres of untouched California desert.

“Let's say 420 acres,” Rob Hickman says. 

“Makes it fun.”

Hickman is a branding entrepreneur and movie producer. 

He had the idea for Tyson Ranch four or five years ago. 

Now there are plans for a luxury hotel and retail stores and facilities for glamping, an amphitheater for concerts, and Tyson University, where experts will teach cannabis-cultivation techniques to future farmers. 

There will also be a lazy river running through the whole place. 

Right now a water park in Waco, Texas, has the world's longest lazy river, but when Tyson Ranch opens, the longest lazy river in the world will be the one at Tyson Ranch. 

It'll take an hour to float the entire length of it.

You will be able to smoke weed pretty much anywhere at Tyson Ranch, except in areas where liquor is for sale, because that's the law. 

But weed will not be grown there, and if they decide they want it to be sold there, Hickman says, they'll partner with one of the big weed-retail companies, the way casinos rent space to Starbucks.

One interesting thing about Tyson Holistic as a quote-unquote marijuana business is that nobody actually farms or harvests or in any meaningful way handles the actual plant. 

They produce Tyson Ranch-branded containers designed to imply that Mike Tyson has, like, gotten out his jeweler's loupe and personally inspected the nugs inside and pronounced them dank. 

They make these containers available to third-party growers whose product meets a standard of quality and purity. 

The growers fill those containers with weed and distribute them.

This way, Hickman says, “we're not burdened with bad crops. We're not burdened with legalities. We're selling paper. Packaging. And market share.”

Bell is barrel-chested, with a shaved head and a long biker-ish beard. 

He's a company link to the pre-legalization cannabis trade. 

He's from New Orleans and has been in the game since 1989. 

He started the first hydroponics-supply store catering to growers east of the Mississippi, moved to Amsterdam as soon as he could afford it, moved to California when its laws began to open up, and began to discover how difficult it could be to make money growing weed in America.

“When I got to California, it was 48 a pound,” Bell says. 

“Now it's 16. Taxes have went up, power's went up, real estate's went up. All the profit's gone.”

Bell met Hickman across a negotiating table. 

Bell was working for some people who were trying to sell Hickman some land. 

“These guys were much like other people in the industry—mostly full of shit,” Bell says. 

“One out of a hundred things happens in the cannabis industry. Working with Rob on the other side of the table, I found it refreshing, because everything he said he was gonna do, he did.”

When the land deal fell apart, Hickman offered Bell a consulting gig on the spot, which turned into a full-time job.

“And two days after I started working for him,” Bell says, 

“I'm sitting in his backyard, and I go to pass a joint, and I notice I'm sitting next to Jean-Claude Van Damme. It's one surreal event after another when you're around Rob.”

Of course they've already shot a sizzle reel for a TV show. 

But because nothing at Tyson Holistic is only one thing, the show is also part sitcom and part infomercial. 

Hickman's plan is to work around the rules that still prohibit advertising anything cannabis-related on television by integrating Tyson Ranch products into a Curb Your Enthusiasm-esque workplace comedy about Tyson (as himself) trying to run a weed company with his knucklehead friends, played by people like Tyson's real-life friend, the comedian Russell Peters. 

They want Maya Rudolph to play Tyson's ex-wife.

Hickman is a heavyset man with a short gray beard, a grim resting face, and a tight smile. 

He's usually drinking something clear and fizzy from an enormous gas-station go-cup. 

For years he'd been a businessman—he launched an Internet-service provider with the late manager and producer Jerry Weintraub, and on his IMDb page he is listed as the former president of George Foreman Foods, the packaged-meats venture of boxer turned electric-grill pitchman George Foreman.

And then things took a turn. 

He lost $4.5 million on a movie project. 

He was struggling in his personal life. 

He was treating depression with alcohol and karaoke. 

There were some good nights. 

He'd sing and climb on top of the piano. 

He kept on doing it even when he realized he was sick. 

He had MRSA, which is like a staph infection, only hungrier—more tenacious and fast-moving and antibiotic-resistant. 

His liver and kidneys shut down. 

He remembers almost dying. 

From some anteroom of the bardo, he heard himself being given last rites.

“Which woke my ass up,” Hickman says. 

“When you get your last rites, it kind of makes you really get your shit in order.”

He began to stabilize. 

The doctors told him to stay off booze and pharmaceuticals if he wanted to live. 

They sent him to a naturopath, who put him on a bunch of cannabis-derived natural medications. 

He stopped drinking—when we talk, it's been eight years—and started thinking like a branding guy again, but about this substance that had changed his life.

He took some meetings with people in the cannabis space. 

They were not inspiring meetings. 

“It was just a horrible group of people,” he says. 

“I thought Hollywood was horrible. These guys are Hollywood, just not as slick. It's the same thing. Nothing's real. They all say they have something. They don't. It's just a mess.”

Hickman went back to producing movies. 

He produced Kickboxer: Vengeance, a reboot of the 1989 Jean-Claude Van Damme action classic, with the Gabonese-Canadian actor and stuntman Alain Moussi playing Van Damme's character, Kurt Sloane, and a year or so later he made a sequel to that reboot, Kickboxer: Retaliation. 

The role of Briggs—an American boxer who meets Sloane in a Thai prison and teaches him some new ways of enduring pain—was played by American boxer and sometime actor and lifelong pain-endurance expert Mike Tyson.

Mike and Kiki had just sold their share in a Los Angeles-area dispensary. 

The shop was profitable, but they were mostly living in Henderson, Nevada, back then, and it was pretty much impossible to run a cash business like that remotely, partly because cannabis-related transactions are still illegal activity in the eyes of the interstate banking system.

Hickman started thinking. 

Tyson had a story to tell. 

Tyson had become a dedicated marijuana user. 

After he'd endured years of more serious substance abuse, weed had helped him come out of the shadows. 

He was a chilled-out 50-something tennis dad who'd seemingly put active self-destruction behind him. 

Hickman says that by that point he had “a lot of major A+ stars coming at me, trying to coordinate some branding in the [cannabis] space.” 

He says he met with Snoop and with representatives from Playboy. 

But no one made more sense than Mike Tyson.

“It's changed his life,” Hickman says. 

“He's the perfect person.”

It's strange to hear the word “perfect” used to describe Mike Tyson in a commercial-branding context in 2019. 

“I know his demographics,” Hickman says. 

“I know 30 percent of people think he's a rapist and all this crazy shit. He's not. He served time 'cause he did some bad things, I guess. But [not] that one in particular.”

Hickman also says, of Desiree Washington, “She's going up to the Champ's at two o'clock in the morning—to play cards? What's she going up there to do?”

This is a callous argument and a shocking one for someone to make about a sexual-assault case in 2019. 

It's also more or less the argument made at Tyson's trial in 1992 by Tyson's own lawyers, who argued that whatever happened to Washington that night was on some level her fault, because she chose to be alone with a man like Mike Tyson.

But Hickman's real argument seems to be what he says a few seconds later: He's done his time. 

The revelations of the #MeToo movement have prompted a broader re-examination of the ways the American justice system and society at large have often failed to hold powerful men to account for sexual misconduct and other forms of abuse. 

But Tyson's celebrity didn't insulate him from the consequences of his actions. 

He was tried and convicted and served time. 

In the nearly three decades since he was initially charged, no evidence casting doubt on the charges or supporting Tyson's contention that he was wrongfully convicted has come to light.

What this means, among other things, is that we have all been aware of this all along. 

It's lately become a mainstream point of view that an ethical society should not allow its members to do business—or art, or sports, or to some extent politics—with people discovered to have committed crimes less heinous than the one Mike Tyson went to jail for. 

We are now a culture reckoning with its own failings, and it's possible that as part of this ongoing righting of the scales, we'll summon the moral authority to reach back in time and retroactively cancel Mike Tyson. 

But the fact will remain that for nearly 30 years, we chose not to—not because of some exonerating ambiguity or complexity surrounding what Tyson had done but because our interest in Tyson superseded our horror at his actions, because something in us did not want to look away.

His rape conviction didn't end his career, nor did it seem to hamper his 21st-century re-emergence. 

He walked among us as Irony Mike, gainfully employed as a winking self-parody, and found an audience again. 

Tyson's appearance as himself in 2009's The Hangover prompted no boycotts; 

Todd Phillips's movie raked in a domestic box-office gross of more than $270 million and spawned two sequels. 

There are dozens of photographs of Bradley Cooper mugging and taking fake punches from his co-star on the red carpet. 

Mike Tyson Mysteries—an Adult Swim cartoon in which Tyson, voicing himself, unravels Scooby-Doo-ish plots with the help of his adopted daughter, a talking pigeon, and the ghost of the Marquess of Queensberry—aired its last new episode just one year ago, in May 2018.

“We're into second chances,” Hickman goes on to say. 

“We love second chances. Everyone that's with us is getting one.”

And of course you could argue that Tyson has skipped a crucial step on the road to a second chance by refusing to acknowledge culpability for Indianapolis, aside from some remarks about having been ungentlemanly. 

Or that Tyson's ability to rebound as a celebrity pitchman moots whatever questions his story raises about the role of race in his initial trial and sentencing, and how clean a slate society owes released convicts.

But Mike Tyson would rather talk about the toad. 

He will talk to you all day about the toad, because the toad is a fun story, but also because it's a story that makes him feel good—it's a story about the better person he's potentially becoming, not the person he used to be. 

When you ask the new Mike Tyson about the old Mike Tyson, you run up against walls pretty quickly.

Tyson acknowledges but won't discuss his acquaintanceship with Donald Trump, who called Tyson's conviction a “travesty” on Howard Stern's show after it happened, and whose presidential candidacy Tyson endorsed in a 2015 HuffPost Live interview. 

(“We stay away from politics,” his publicist wrote me in August, before my initial round of interviews.) 

But he also recognizes apolitical questions like When was the last time you cried? and When was the last time you got angry? as problematic to answer; he scowls and says “Why?” to both. 

He comes to this room and tells his truth and only his truth, and his new friends speak admiringly of watching him open up like a flower. 

But maybe the better analogy is a drawbridge.

You could see how it was all supposed to work. 

The laws had changed in California, giving rise to a brand-new industry and potentially a brand-new class of industrialist. 

Those industrialists were busy uncoupling marijuana from its association with “drug culture” and rebranding it as an accoutrement of wellness, closing the gap between Pineapple Express and Lululemon. 

Was it so hard to believe that the same transformative process that redeemed the devil's lettuce could sweep up and redeem Mike Tyson, re-introducing him to the culture as a man of peace, a clean-living ambassador of chill?

This past February, on a windy and then chilly Saturday, hundreds of people gather outside Palm Springs, at the future site of Tyson Ranch, on a patch of desert carpeted in something synthetic and green, to watch Miguel and A$AP Ferg play at the inaugural Kind Festival, a kind of mini Coachella organized by Tyson Holistic to spread the word about the company and what it means to build here. 

Hard-faced locals in biker gear mingle with invited influencers, who dance from one selfie to the next in Penny Lane furs and indoor-outdoor lingerie, hitting joints and angles for the 'Gram.

It both is and is not a Mike Tyson weed festival. 

There's a giant inflatable heart by the front entrance, and on the heart there's a sign with Mike Tyson's face on it, promoting a charity raffle where you can win the chance to smoke a doob with Mike Tyson. 

There's also a raffle where you can win Mike Tyson's limited-edition Harley. 

The sign for that raffle calls it “Mike's Act of Kindness.” At Kind Festival, you can eat chicken strips and corn rolled in Hot Cheetos, and drink beer, vodka, rum, various wines, and two different kinds of Four Loko.

The Kind Festival name is consultant-brainstormed, chosen because it evokes high-grade kind bud but can also mean of a kind, of the same sort as well as generous and considerate. 

The idea is that it will grow into a viable festival brand, a mainstream music-and-cannabis event geared toward a less stereotypically stone-y demo than Rolling Loud or Cypress Hill's Great American Smokeout. 

Not calling it Mike Tyson's Crazy-Ass Weedfest is an investment in a long-term future.

It has been announced by the city of Desert Hot Springs that this year's festival has not been permitted as a “cannabis-consumption event,” and the festival organizers have confirmed that this is true, but everyone who's holding is just flamboyantly partaking whenever they feel like it, and when the DJ spinning between sets asks to see some hands in the air, the crowd continues lolling on ground-level fuzzy beanbag chairs, spaced-out and yawny.

“Mike Tyson's building a whole ranch out here, y'all!” the DJ tells the crowd. 

“It's gonna have the world's longest lazy river! This shit is serious!”

She drops Sheck Wes's “Live Sheck Wes” and everybody watches the sun set behind the cheesesteak truck.

Honestly, it appears to be pretty easy to burn one with Mike Tyson at Kind Festival, even if you don't win the raffle. 

He's backstage, on a couch, in a deluxe Mallard travel trailer full of family and well-wishers and exhaled weed smoke. 

People and smoke are always coming in and out. 

Here's Mike's old friend, the R&B legend Al B. Sure!, who pulls out his phone to show Mike a picture of the two of them hanging out with Bobby Brown way back in the day.

Mike's bodyguard, the former Hells Angel and Howard Stern regular Chuck Zito, stands around in front of the trailer in a shearling coat and a black Adidas tracksuit with red, white, and green accents and the words italian bad boy embroidered on the back.

“It's from Rocky IV,” Chuck Zito explains. 

“Sly—he sells 'em. StalloneStore.com.”

Sly doesn't sell them with the italian bad boy embroidery, though. 

Chuck Zito had that done himself. 

The sky above the trailer fills up with moths. 

On a patch of grass, Chuck Zito tosses around a piece of rawhide with Mars, Mike Tyson's enormous white goldendoodle.

A pale and intense young man in a camouflage jacket and Off-White Converse sneakers makes his way toward the trailer, leading a delegation of pretty regular-looking early-20s white dudes in streetwear who have evidently been invited to the festival because they're a huge deal on social media and have been promised a picture with Mike Tyson. 

Which can be arranged, except he's brought along six guys, which is at least one more guy than Chuck Zito and the people inside the trailer are comfortable letting into Mike's increasingly clouded airspace for a photo op at this time.

The leader of the influencer pack breaks this news to the sixth man of his crew, who is growth-spurt tall with a head of butterscotch-blond Sideshow Bob dreads. 

The guy looks crestfallen. 

The leader says he's sorry.

“You're a fuckin' legend,” the leader says. 

“You got swag. But I can't.”

Moments later the influencers emerge with their prize—smoke-hazed but Insta-ready snapshots of themselves with Mike Tyson, taken on one another's phones. 

“That one's fire,” one kid says. 

“Send me that.”

Here, maybe, is one referendum on Mike Tyson's future as a public figure—these kids' absolute conviction that a pic with Mike Tyson will move whatever social-media needle they live and die by. 

And then there is another one. 

The time comes for Mike Tyson to make his way to the stage. 

His whole posse—Eben Britton and Al B. Sure! and Chuck Zito and Rob Hickman, a whole champ-in-the-arena wedge of people—moves with him.

Between-sets music booms, and offstage Mike does a little fast footwork to a Run the Jewels song. 

He walks out onstage and hears a crowd chanting for him. 

Mike Tyson thanks everybody and does a little I'm not worthy bow. 

Then he brings out Rob Hickman, in part because Rob Hickman absolutely does not want to be onstage, and Tyson finds this funny.

When Kind Fest happened, it had been about a few weeks since Tyson had smoked the toad, and up in the VIP section, all anyone from Tyson Holistic could talk about was how it's changed him. 

He's like a philosopher, they said. It was clear we were living yet another Tyson epilogue.

Now it's a Wednesday in March. 

Eben Britton is smoking a joint in the Tyson Holistic podcast studio and explaining how he got here. 

A herniated disk two years into his NFL career. 

Back and shoulder surgery. 

A ruptured appendix. 

He managed his pain with weed and got a use exemption from the NFL so he could pop Adderall to face games he no longer wanted to play in. 

He wound up playing for the Chicago Bears, forgot to bring his pills to practice, cadged Ritalin off a teammate figuring there was no difference, flunked a piss test, and got kicked out of the NFL.

He gathered that this turn of events was the universe's way of telling him it was okay to move on. 

Curious about what else the universe might have to tell him, Britton—who'd done mushrooms once or twice during his pro-football career—embarked on a psychedelic odyssey that began with about six months of heavy LSD consumption and moved on to him in the Amazon doing kambo, a medicine ritual involving the secretions of the giant monkey frog.

“They burn holes in your skin and then spackle in the frog medicine,” Britton says, “and you have a purging experience. They call it the warrior's cleanse.”

One of the things the frog-medicine ritual supposedly does is open the door for synchronicities to begin multiplying in your life. 

It was not long after Britton took the frog medicine that Rob Hickman called and asked him to help with the summit at Tyson Holistic, which turned into a job—and the chance to sit in this room with Mike Tyson and watch him be funny and alive instead of dead-eyed and sad.

“When I came in,” Britton says, “Mike was in a very dark place. There was a darkness around him.… And Mike has literally turned from the ferocious warrior up on the mountaintop, living in isolation, to this spiritually awakened shaman/cannabis-entrepreneur warrior of the light.

“Mike made a decision when he was a kid,” Britton says, “that he was going to be the most vicious he could possibly be, to show the world that it couldn't get him down. And I think what the toad did was it just released him from that. It showed him it was okay to be vulnerable.”

It's precisely that shift—from Iron Mike to Toad Mike—that makes Tyson such an important voice on issues of mental health and masculinity, Britton says.

“Mike, being the character that he is, he has the potential to change the world,” Britton explains. 

“Being this vicious, demonized character that he has been, to now opening up and being real and talking about all of the things he's been through and done and how he feels about that? 

That changes the way people think. 

There are so many men out there just totally fucking lost, because we've been brainwashed into believing that being a man is this certain sort of thing. And it's killing us—it's killing men.

“That's why this is so important,” he continues. 

“Because what other male figure is talking about that stuff—who can be as impactful as Mike Tyson?”

Don King told Mike Tyson not to mess with the imam's stepdaughter, and mostly Tyson didn't—not because Don King told him not to, but because the imam's stepdaughter wouldn't have it. 

Lakiha Spicer was 19 then, and Mike Tyson was 29, and soon enough the tornado of Mike Tyson's life picked him up and set him down somewhere else, and they didn't see each other again until five years later, when Kiki was 24 and living on her own in New York.

“It was a roller coaster after that,” Kiki Tyson says. 

“We started dating. It was crazy. He was a lunatic, y'know? So many women. I would break up with him, I'd be emotional. It was a lot. But we were always really good friends.”

Kiki is 43 now, elegant and poised and sharp. 

She's been married to Mike for ten years, and he still makes her laugh. 

They have the same twisted sense of humor. 

They have been through some shit together, not all of it Mike-inflicted. 

In 2008, she served six months in federal prison after collecting $71,000 in salary from an alleged no-show job at a Muslim academy run by her parents. 

Her stepfather, Shamsud-din Ali, was convicted in 2005 of fraud and racketeering charges uncovered during a massive FBI investigation of possible links between drug dealers and Philadelphia city politics; 

Kiki's mother also served a brief prison sentence after being convicted of fraud. 

At the time of her incarceration, Kiki was pregnant with Tyson's daughter Milan, who was born in December 2008; 

Kiki and Mike were married the following year.

Maybe in part because of all this, she can meet him without judgment. 

She always has. 

Even when he came out of rehab, overweight and loaded up on psych meds, moving like the walking dead. 

Zombie swagger, Kiki used to call it.

“All he wanted to do,” she says, “was eat Cap'n Crunch and watch reruns of Law & Order: SVU. His personality was not there.… When he was on all those pills, he was existing, but he was like, not home, y'know? It's kind of like the Sunken Place, from that crazy movie. He was in the Sunken Place.”

They tried taking him off everything, but when Tyson's on nothing at all, he wakes up every night like clockwork, convinced his life is over. 

“I don't know what this thing is that talks to him,” Kiki says, “but it says, Nobody loves me, my life is over, I'm going to die soon.”

So the weed is a compromise. 

Kiki doesn't smoke much—maybe four times a year, and only when the kids are asleep. 

But the only thing she minds about Mike's intake is the ashes. 

They have white carpeting at the Newport Beach house—Mike has some kind of mental block about putting his joints in the damn ashtray, and at Tyson Holistic there's usually a half-smoked Mike jay parked on the edge of any given table or counter, like a little gray-and-brown pupa on a branch—and when he's at home, Kiki has to follow him around with a Dustbuster.

This is the hardest thing about being married to Mike Tyson—most of the time, anyway. 

“Mike can sometimes resort to old patterns of mental self-destruction,” Kiki says. 

“Like, when things seem to be going too good, something happens in his head. I think it's fear-based. He thinks, How can I fuck this up? He used to be addicted to chaos, because that's what his whole life was—chaos. And when it's too calm, some of that residue kicks back in.”

Last year he went through a “weird period,” Kiki says. 

He was going to clubs again. 

Hanging out with the type of person who thinks it's badass to be seen hanging out with Mike Tyson. 

Up to no good.

“I was using cocaine,” Tyson says. 

“I think I was on cocaine when I did the toad. I was just a mess. I had a bunch of fucking girls I was fucking. It was horrible stuff, man. I was caught in a vicious cycle and I couldn't stop. Even if I wanted to, I just couldn't stop. I was sick. I didn't care about nothing.… Say I see a girl, have sex with a girl. Then I'm guilty. Now I wanna do a line of cocaine. Now I wanna drink. Now I just wanna destroy my life, 'cause I'm killing myself with guilt.”

Since the toad, Tyson says, “I don't wanna go out. I don't wanna fuck nobody. I just don't want to be on that side of the world anymore.”

Kiki says he doesn't wake up at night anymore, not since the toad. 

Mike says he only smokes dope, never drinks or does anything harder, unless you count the occasional toad hit. 

He feels like a positive force in his family, in his business.

I ask if he likes himself better than he used to.

“I don't know,” he says, a little sad all of a sudden. 

“Ask me that in my next interview, okay?”

“When I started doing this story,” I say to Hickman, “when I pitched it, I said, Mike Tyson's starting a weed company. Do you still think of it that way, at this point? Or was the weed always just the thing that was supposed to get you to the thing?”

“It was never a weed company,” Hickman says, laughing. 

“That was just the easiest thing for people to gravitate to.”

I wasn't sure if this was a weed story anymore. 

What it felt like was a story about a sultan who falls asleep for years, and while he sleeps his subjects build a city of wonders around him, and all anybody can talk about is how pleased the sultan will be when he wakes to see it, this city built in his name.

Back in October, when Hickman sat in this room, all you could hear was drilling and hammering, the sound of contractors transforming this building to suit Tyson Holistic's needs. 

Now it's a podcast studio.

Meanwhile, Hickman is meeting architects for Tyson Ranch. 

He's negotiating the company's first round of outside financing. 

For the moment, he and two other partners have financed everything personally. 

He thinks they'll exit within the next few years. 

They've already had offers. 

He names a big private-equity firm, says it's off the record. 

“The offers,” he says, “are already staggering, for what we've created.”

He says they have big bands “standing in line” to play the next Kind Fest, scheduled for this fall. 

He says they're now buying “biomass” from a grower in Kentucky—bales and bales of pot, bred with low THC so they can transport it across state lines—and moving it to manufacturing plants they're building in Henderson, Nevada, and Nashville, Tennessee, and Pueblo, Colorado, where they'll turn it into pharma-grade CBD isolate and sell it to cosmetic and pharmaceutical companies.

Hickman says he's in negotiations right now to build another Tyson Ranch, on the border of Florida and Georgia, two states that don't currently allow recreational pot. 

They will. 

But even if they don't, Tyson Ranch will still put a wave pool there.

Even if the regulatory pendulum swings back in California, Hickman will get something from that 418 acres out by Desert Hot Springs.

“I'll have a Great Wolf Lodge for kids,” he says. 

“I've got TopGolf. I'll have the longest lazy river. They can drink piña coladas and float around all they want. I have a stadium that will house UFC events, boxing events, big concerts. I'll have a university teaching people agriculture and how to run businesses, that's in a curriculum from UCLA. Even if I have to cut marijuana out of it—I still got a pretty cool business to run out there.”

And it all seems so perfect and it all seems so positive and stigma-free, and it also seems like the last remnants of the hippie dream being sucked down deep into the lungs of 21st-century capitalism—and meanwhile here's Mike Tyson on a couch in the next room, in his dad jeans and his big white dad sneakers and a button-down shirt printed with pictures of a windblown ocean.

A minute ago, he was watching Patrick Roy and Mario Lemieux go at it on YouTube, but now he's just puffing a joint and looking contemplatively at one of those channels that show nothing but ultra-HD drone-overflight videos of beautiful places seen from the air. 

A shot of London on a clear bright day gives way to the coast of some Pacific island, thick green bushes against tall stone cliffs. 

Mike Tyson thinks about how humbling it all is, looking down at bushes that are probably bigger than he is. 

Mike Tyson wonders what kinds of animals there are in those bushes. 

Mike Tyson imagines what it would be like, to be there under the cliffs, on beaches inaccessible by land.

“It's beautiful, man,” Mike Tyson says, and the scene changes again, and now we're so high up all we can see are clouds, and in his chair at the office, Mike Tyson falls asleep and maybe even dreams.

Alex Pappademas is a writer who lives in Los Angeles.

I am your narrative guru and your pop culture brain for hire and the guy in the room who knows which way is north and how the words should sound, which is why I wrote this sentence without using the word "storyteller." 

I’ve made TV and podcasts and docs and written a couple of books, like MOST TRIUMPHANT, a meditation on Keanu Reeves’ life in the arts, and the forthcoming QUANTUM CRIMINALS, featuring paintings of characters from Steely Dan songs by Joan LeMay with text by me. 

Most recently I wrote and hosted THE BIG HIT SHOW, a docuseries for Spotify/Higher Ground featuring multi-episode stories about the making of Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly, the redemption of the Twilight saga by its devoted fan base, and how Pokemon took over the world. 

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JAKE PAUL VS. MIKE TYSON

Less than main event

Paul outlasts Tyson in bout, disappointing near-capacity Arlington crowd

ARLINGTON — Jake Paul defeated Mike Tyson in an eight-round unanimous decision Friday night at AT&T Stadium.

The lackluster fight turned in the third round when Paul landed jabs and a few combinations as Tyson looked every bit of his 58 years of age.

The near-capacity crowd booed the final decision and even walked out at the final bell.

The best Tyson did was stalk Paul, 27, in the first round and landed a handful of punches.

But for the rest of the fight, he moved around, bit the thumb of his boxing glove and watched as Paul beat him.

According to Netflix’s statistics, Paul landed 78 punches to Tyson’s 18.

Paul kept his distance by using his jab and combinations but in the early going he clinched Tyson several times, expecting the Tyson of old’s knockout power.

But Tyson didn’t have knockout power, and Paul did enough to win.

This is Tyson’s first bout since he a fought fellow Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. to a draw in 2020.

That fight was classified as an exhibition, unlike Friday night’s event.

The fight featured two-minute rounds with 14-ounce gloves.

Normally, fights between men are at three-minute rounds using 10- to 12-ounce gloves depending on the weight class.

The co-main event, a women’s fight won by Katie Taylor in a close 10-round unanimous decision over Amanda Serrano, was fought with two-minute rounds.

Whether the fight was sanctioned as a legitimate prize fight or deemed an exhibition, fans came out to support it.

AT&T Stadium was filled with an estimated crowd of 70,000.

Tyson was the big draw, getting huge cheers from the fans whenever he was shown on the AT&T big screens.

Paul was booed constantly and didn’t seem to mind being the villain considering his popularity as a YouTuber and actor, now boxer.

His biggest claim to fame before Friday was beating three MMA fighters: Anderson Silva, Nate Diaz and back-to-back wins over Tyron Woodley.

Paul’s last fight occurred July 20 when he scored a sixth-round technical knockout victory over Michael Perry, an MMA and bare knuckles fighter.

The Tyson-Paul fight was scheduled for July but Tyson suffered a bleeding ulcer while on a flight. Doctors told Tyson to push back the fight and it raised questions about his ability to perform given his age.

Both fighters boasted they would win by knockout coming into the match.

The Fight That Exposed Pop Culture’s Glass Jaw

Tyson-Paul bout showed talent, tribulation no longer command the stage

Every once in a while, we get an event that seems to capture the national moment just perfectly.

And there it was, buffering and glitching on our television screens Friday night live from Arlington — an event so monumentally nonsensical that, in the current times, it somehow made perfect sense.

A 58-year-old Mike Tyson more than three decades removed from the ferocious fighter who transfixed Gen Xers in a pay-per-view world vs. a 27-year-old Jake Paul, the kind of creature who crawls out of social media into real-world relevance.

Well, relevance may be too strong a word.

To say this was a stunt fight is to betray the great tradition of stunt fights.

This was a farce wrapped in a spectacle bordering on travesty.

And yet there we were, eyes glued to the screen except for when we were cursing, desperately reloading Netflix to try to overcome what turned out to be a major failure to be ready for the millions upon millions of us who wanted to watch this all unfold.

The temptation is to ask what it all means, and maybe that’s a fool’s errand.

Maybe we just need nonsense sometimes.

But this is an editorial, so we’re going to indulge the impulse to think it through .

It would be one thing if American society had tuned in, as it once did, for the two greatest fighters in the world to stand toe to toe.

But this wasn’t the Thrilla in Manila.

It was the Eye Roll in Arlington.

And surely we knew that going in, right?

So why do it?

Maybe there was something deeper at stake here, and here’s our best shot.

Tyson represents an analog era, a time when you had to be the best of the best to hold the big stage the way he did when mowed down opponents like a two-fisted tractor.

Jake Paul represents the current age, a man of modest, hardly discernible talents with a big, brash mouth and a willingness to say or do whatever it takes to get a following.

American culture has always made room for the Jake Pauls of the world. P.T. Barnum made a mint off of carnival barking and freak shows.

But we can’t shake the feeling that a lot of people who were tuning in Friday night wanted to see a lost world get one last shot in.

Could the old formula of talent and training, of a life devoted to the sport, knock down or better yet knock out someone who just decided that this will add up to a few more likes and a few more dollars?

The answer was no.

Tyson was too old.

His time is over.

It’s a new age now, and we’re all living in it.

Jake Paul Gave Mike Tyson a Senseless Beating

The YouTuber turned boxer triumphed over the legend of Iron Mike, and, less impressively, the man himself.

For the past few weeks, one of the top stories in all of sports has been the tale of a fifty-eight-year-old ex-boxer who was preparing to clamber into the ring once again—becoming, for one more night, an ex-ex-boxer.

Of course, Mike Tyson is not merely a boxer but, rather, the boxer, at least in the post-Muhammad Ali era.

He is so synonymous with the sport that one of this era’s top heavyweights was named in his honor: Tyson Fury, who was born, in England, in 1988, when Mike Tyson was ascendant, having just knocked out Michael Spinks, in a fight that lasted a minute and a half.

By the time Tyson retired, mid-fight, in 2005, he was less fearsome than he had once been, but just about as famous as he had ever been.

His enduring appeal had something to do with the violence he inflicted, but it had more to do with his startling self-awareness—his tendency to talk about himself as a character whom he knew only too well.

On Friday night, he made his official return, in a match that no one could have imagined two decades ago.

His opponent was Jake Paul, the twenty-seven-year-old influencer turned boxer, and the fight was shown not on pay-per-view but on Netflix, which has something like two hundred and eighty million subscribers worldwide.

It may well have been among the most-watched fights in the history of boxing.

As he prepared, Tyson encouraged his fans to believe that, though it had been decades since his last proper fight, not much had changed.

Clips from training camp suggested that he could still move his hands pretty quickly.

But, by far the most impressive footage—the best reminder of why so many people still care about Tyson—came from an interview that was released the day before the event.

The interviewer was Jazlyn Guerra, known as Jazzy, an indefatigable fourteen-year-old who has interviewed enough celebrities to become something of a celebrity herself.

She asked, “After such a successful career, what type of legacy would you like to leave behind, when it’s all said and done?”

Tyson responded not with a humble platitude about doing his best but with an extraordinary monologue that swiftly spread across social media, partly because Tyson delivered it in a fugue-state monotone, as if he barely knew or cared whom he was talking to:

I don’t know. I don’t believe in the word “legacy.” I just think that’s another word for ego. Legacy doesn’t mean nothing. That’s just some word everybody grabbed on to. Someone said that word, and everyone grabbed on the word, so now it’s used every five seconds. It means absolutely nothing to me. I’m just passing through. I’mma die, and it’s going to be over. Who cares about a legacy after that? What a big ego: “I’mma die. I want people to think that I’m this, I’m great.” No. We’re nothing. We’re just dead. We’re dust. We’re absolutely nothing. Our legacy is nothing.

No one who has ever conducted a challenging interview could have been unimpressed by Jazzy’s cheerful response.

“Well, thank you so much for sharing that,” she said, and soon the mood shifted.

“You’re pretty sharp,” Tyson said, admiring her short-sleeved Fendi sweater.

Once upon a time, Tyson was widely considered a villain, or at least a disgrace, but these days he is a fan favorite, especially when compared to Jake Paul, who has found a clever and relatively honorable way to monetize his unpopularity. (In the world of boxing, a punchable face can be a great marketing tool.)

Few people seemed upset that the scrap began a day early, during the Thursday weigh-in, when Tyson gave Paul a vigorous slap across the face after Paul stepped on his toe.

Paul neither flinched nor staggered, and bragged about the altercation on X:

“This is a pinch me moment. I got slapped by Mike Tyson 🤗.” In 2002, Tyson and Lennox Lewis engaged in a pre-fight brawl during which Tyson bit Lewis on the thigh.

(Lewis then beat Tyson in the ring, easily and badly.)

But that was a real fight; in contrast, Paul vs. Tyson seemed sure to be a less-real one, although no one could say for sure how much less real.

This was not Tyson’s first comeback: four years ago, he faced a fellow retired boxer, Roy Jones, Jr., in a just-for-fun match, and was generally judged to have fared better.

Friday’s encounter was marketed as a real fight, though an abbreviated one: eight rounds, instead of the traditional ten or twelve, lasting two minutes each, instead of the traditional three.

Tyson, at fifty-eight, talks in a slurred, unsteady voice that suggests some of the toll that boxing has taken on him; no doubt it is not a good idea for such a person to be hit repeatedly in the head, although it is surely not a good idea for any person to be hit repeatedly in the head.

(Boxing, in general, as even many of its fans would concede, is a bad idea.)

His fight against Paul was originally scheduled for July, but was postponed after Tyson suffered a bleeding ulcer, which he says required blood transfusions.

“I don’t want to die in a hospital bedroom—I want to die in the ring,” he said, in a Netflix documentary series promoting the fight. Statements like this one explained why so many people thought he shouldn’t be fighting, and also why so many people wanted to watch, regardless.

The excitement of Paul vs. Tyson peaked early.

The best part was the buildup, and the second-best part was the opening seconds, when Tyson charged toward Paul and Paul took flight, scooting backward toward one corner of the ring and then, a few seconds later, toward the opposite corner.

This was the kind of fight most viewers probably wanted: Paul trying to avoid danger, and maybe eventually, with any luck, failing to avoid it.

What they got, instead, was a contest that vindicated the oddsmakers, who had installed Paul as a two-to-one favorite.

The fight basically started, and ended, in the third round, which began with Tyson tipping forward and swatting Paul with a looping left hook.

“Oh, my God, he just rocked him,” said the actress and boxing fan Rosie Perez, who was one of the commentators.

Paul responded impressively, with a trio of left hooks of his own, and Tyson staggered backward, at which point some viewers might have noticed that he was wearing a knee brace, as many men of his age do.

“Mike does not look good right now,” Perez said, and indeed he never looked good again.

According to CompuBox, which keeps count, Tyson landed only six punches in the final five rounds.

Paul used his jab to keep Tyson at a safe distance, and won nearly every round on every scorecard.

He had triumphed over both the legend of Tyson and also, less impressively, the man himself.

“He’s a legend. He’s the greatest to ever do it. He’s the GOAT,” Paul said, of Tyson, after the fight. “I’m just honored to be a part of America, and it feels like we’re back, baby.”

What had he proved? Paul has built a record of 12–1 (including one amateur match) by carefully avoiding top contenders and, for that matter, middle contenders; if some boxing fans are a disgusted by his willingness to use a fifty-eight-year-old man as a stepping stone, maybe they will be that much more motivated to tune in to Paul’s next contest, in hopes of seeing him finally get what he deserves.

But, then, the idea that fighters get what they deserve is precisely the kind of sentimental idea that Tyson likes to refute.

Even when he was reliably snuffing out one opponent after another, Tyson seemed aware of the senselessness of boxing.

There is no reason, really, for two people to have a fistfight, except that other people might enjoy it.

And maybe that means there’s no easy way to persuade a geriatric fighter to stop.

The post-fight interviewer, Ariel Helwani, seemed to be hoping that Tyson would announce his re-retirement. “Is this possibly the last time for you?” he asked.

But Tyson only shrugged. “I don’t think so,” he said, quietly.

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Jake Paul vs. Mike Perry Preview and Prediction

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Published: July 04, 2024

Jake Paul vs. Mike Perry will take place on July 20 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL

On July 20 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, FL, the boxing world's most controversial and divisive figure, Jake "The Problem Child" Paul, makes a highly-anticipated return to the squared circle in what is set to be his most significant box office bout since his clash with Nate Diaz in August 2023.

In an eight-round cruiserweight fight, Paul will face former mixed martial artist and undefeated Bare Knuckler boxer Platinum Mike Perry. The bare-knuckler fighter is undefeated in the world of bare-knuckle boxing and has scored significant stoppages over former world-class MMA fighters and champions such as Thiago Alves, Eddie Alvarez, and Luke Rockhold.

Perry's career in MMA wasn't spectacular, holding a 14-8 record. However, in the UFC, he won Performance of the Night twice in 2017, scoring knockouts with a knee and an elbow. He also participated in back-to-back Fight of the Night in 2019 with a 1-1 record. Of Perry's 14 wins in MMA, eight came by knockout, and he has only lost once by stoppage and once by submission. The majority of his losses were by decision. 

Compared to some of Paul's former opponents with a background in MMA, Perry isn't on the downside of his career or way past his prime. The Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) King of Violence champion is on the best run of his career and will pose a massive threat to Paul. 

"Jake Paul claims he fears no man, but on Saturday, July 20, the world will see the truth: he just made the worst mistake of his life in trying to get through me before Iron Mike," stated Mike Perry. "I'm going to make it look easy on Saturday July 20, and I'm going to teach Jake Paul the most he's ever learned about fighting."

After the gigantic fight with Mike Tyson was delayed due to the former heavyweight champion's health concerns, Paul could have chosen to wait until November to fight again. Instead, he's decided to stay active and face a live opponent with proven knockout power. 

"When Paul vs. Tyson was rescheduled, I knew immediately that I wanted to still fight on Saturday, July 20, said Paul. Now, as I prepare for my fight against Iron Mike, there's no better opponent for me than Mike Perry.

"He's a proven knockout artist who has shown to be a maniac in and out of the ring. This is the perfect experience for me to gain in advance of facing Mike Tyson. But getting that experience comes with risk. Those who know me know I'm a risk taker, and while 'Platinum' Perry might try to end me, I'm Titanium Jake Paul, and I fear no man.

"I'm going to get the W and give everyone a preview of what I'm bringing to the ring against Mike Tyson. Tune in on DAZN PPV as I return to Tampa and send 'Platinum' Perry the Platypus back to bare-knuckle for good."

Paul has a seemingly neverending well of detractors. Yet, over the last year, he has worked his way from being admonished to tolerated to slightly celebrated by hardcore boxing enthusiasts. Paul's work with Most Valuable Promotions, putting on events that highlight prospects, and his work in women's boxing, specifically with Amanda Serrano, have shown fans that he is taking the sport for more than a payday. 

Following Paul's win over MMA legend Anderson Silva in 2022, there was a demand for him to take on true professionally ranked boxers rather than MMA fighters who were dangerous but past their prime. 

Paul took that chance in Saudi Arabia against Tommy Fury in 2023 and lost a split decision in a fight where he dropped his opponent in the eighth and final round. Afterward, Paul largely dominated another MMA legend, the always-popular Nate Diaz, in another event-focused fight. But since then, Paul has taken it upon himself to face off against what would be considered authentic professionally ranked boxers. 

In Paul's previous two bouts, he scored emphatic first-round knockouts over Andre August and, most recently, Ryan Bourland in Puerto Rico. Neither fighter was elite, but those wins for Paul ended the notion that any professional boxer at any level could handle the social media mogul. 

Betting Odds

According to DraftKings, the current odds favor Paul. He is a -275 favorite over Perry, who is a +210 underdog at this time. As the fight draws nearer, the odds could change as more fans become familiar with Perry. 

Prediction: 

Paul and his team have been thorough and intelligent in how they have moved his career. They have been careful in choosing who to fight and, more importantly, when to fight them. Perry will come to fight, and his aggression could surprise Paul, leading to a knockdown or the divisive social media star being hurt. But in Paul's team choosing Perry as an opponent and a mega fight with Tyson signed and on the horizon, the former Disney star has likely picked up on weaknesses he can exploit.

 While Perry has momentum from winning all his bare-knuckle boxing fights, he has only fought once in a professional boxing match and lost via fourth-round knockout in 2015. 

Look for Paul to score another highlight-reel knockout in Tampa against Mike Perry within the first half of what should be an exciting, action-filled fight.

Prediction:

Jake Paul via knockout.

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Dougie’s Monday Mailbag (Evander Holyfield, Oscar Valdez, ’70s greats vs. future stars)

Dougie’s Monday Mailbag (Evander Holyfield, Oscar Valdez, ’70s greats vs. future stars)

Photo by Amanda Westcott/Triller Fight Club 13 Sep by Doug Fischer THE OLDTIMERS Hello Dougie, hope you are well and healthy. Evander Holyfield’s performance was really upsetting for me to watch. However fit he might appear to be, he was in a life-endangering situation. Why do you think the oldtimers are doing this? Do they think something like “these modern fighters would be nothing in my time, I’ll show them”? Or is their desire to compete so great that it clouds their minds so that they put themselves in harm’s way in order to, unnecessarily, prove something to themselves? All of them have legacies that are being blemished by these I dare say circus acts. Do they view current scene as so low in quality that they are compelled to act? Anyway, this is a trend that won’t stop until someone gets seriously hurt. Maybe there should be the age limit on sanctioned professional fights, I don’t know. What do you think? Best wishes, and greetings from Serbia. – Vulic I think commissions need to do their jobs. All fighters have a drive that compels them to challenge themselves and push their bodies beyond normal human limits. Those egos don’t go away after they retire or when they get old. Great fighters often have the fiercest pride; the fire in their bellies is what made them special competitors as young amateurs, during their peak pro years, and even when they were past their primes. Holyfield is never going to think he can’t do something, especially the sport where he forged his legend. If he’s willing to step into the ring (and he will be for as long as he’s able to stand on two legs – that’s no exaggeration), there will always be a promoter and/or platform willing to try to capitalize on his legendary status. It’s up to the state athletic commissions to say no. Boxing is a crazy business filled with crazy mother f__kers. The state commissions – including tribal and commonwealth – need to come up with unified safety guidelines, so a dangerous matchups can’t simply cross borders and state lines to see action. Evander Holyfield’s performance was really upsetting for me to watch. I can imagine, but I wouldn’t know because I didn’t watch it. The highlights are ugly enough. However fit he might appear to be, he was in a life-endangering situation. Why do you think the oldtimers are doing this? They’re FIGHTERS! They still want to do what gave them purpose as kids, adolescents and young adults; and what brought them fame and fortune in their 20s and 30s. If somebody is going to offer them a big bag of money to come back, they’re gonna go for it. Do they think something like “these modern fighters would be nothing in my time, I’ll show them”? Or is their desire to compete so great that it clouds their minds so that they put themselves in harm’s way in order to, unnecessarily, prove something to themselves? I think it’s more of the latter. Holyfield probably had no idea who Vitor Belfort was. He wasn’t trying to prove anything to him. He was just challenging himself, setting a goal that would lead to another goal (like a Mike Tyson exhibition). All of them have legacies that are being blemished by these I dare say circus acts. It might seem like that now, but if they’ve reached Holyfield’s level of greatness, an embarrassing loss isn’t going to alter their status as icons. Mike Tyson is still Mike Tyson despite getting trashed by Kevin McBride in his final pro bout. How many times did we see Roy Jones Jr. KTFO once he got long in the tooth? He’s still Roy Jones Jr.! Joe Louis was unceremoniously (and brutally) sent back into retirement by Rocky Marciano and then he took part in crappy exhibitions and pro wrestling bouts. He’s still the Brown Bomber, an American hero. People don’t remember Muhammad Ali for the Antonio Inoki exhibition. He’s remembered as The Greatest because he fought every top heavyweight of the 1960s and 1970s (and usually won). I can go on and on, but I trust you get the picture. Do they view current scene as so low in quality that they are compelled to act? Maybe, there is a void, currently, of high-profile matchups between elite boxers in their primes. Anyway, this is a trend that won’t stop until someone gets seriously hurt. That’s a scary and depressing thought, but you’re not wrong. Maybe there should be the age limit on sanctioned professional fights, I don’t know. I’m thinking after 50, it’s gotta be a FRIENDLY exhibition. HOLYFIELD AND THE TRILLER DEBATE Hi Doug, Maybe the consensus for your mailbag readers is to ignore Triller events and pretend debacles like Holyfield vs. Belfort don’t exist (if we pretend, they don’t exist, they can’t hurt us!), but I have to express my disgust and sadness somewhere. What happened last night interfered with some of my most cherished memories, not just of boxing, but of family. I know I’m not the only person who feels this way, but here’s my story. I was raised in Ireland in the nineties. Boxing was my dad’s favourite sport, so it became mine too. While my friends and classmates were learning the names of their favourite soccer players, I was getting familiar with names like Tyson, Bruno, Lewis, and Holyfield. My dad and I would talk about boxing often and he would tell me about how heavyweight fighters of the 90s era compared to the likes of Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier. Those conversations would spark a lifelong curiosity about the lineage of boxing champions and the evolution of the sport.

Holyfield (left) on his way to stopping Mike Tyson in their first fight. Photo from The Ring archive Between the years of 1996 and 1999, my dad and my brothers would stay up until 5am to watch Evander Holyfield face Mike Tyson (twice) and Lennox Lewis (twice). These are some of my favourite memories of spending time with family. Coming in as an underdog in the first fight with Tyson (which a lot of people forget was the fight of the year), most fans expected Holyfield to get finished early. Even back then, many felt that he was past his prime. But Holyfield won and it left an impression on me. It was the first time I ever witnessed an athlete defy the odds and public sentiment so dramatically, and I was a big fan from that point on. A few years later, in 2003, me and dad watched the highlights of Evander Holyfield getting outboxed, outfoxed, and stopped by a resurgent James Toney. We watched these highlights in my dad’s hospital room as doctors and nurses helped to make him comfortable during his final days. It was a very sobering moment for me as a young man, witnessing the deterioration (albeit in different ways) of these two men that I held in such high regard. A few days later, Dad passed away at the age of 58 years old. This weekend, at the age of 58 years old, Evander Holyfield got back into the ring. You can say it was free will. But everybody knows Holyfield’s primary motivation: he needs money, and that need was exploited by some unscrupulous industry newcomers. I know that boxing has always been a colourful business that attracts chancers, crooks, and gangsters. But the people running Triller bring their own special brand of moral bankruptcy to the table. To throw the nearly 60-year-old Holyfield into the ring with a much younger pitbull (who’s had PED controversies in the past) on just a few days’ notice reflects the level of irresponsibility that Triller operates at. And in the end, Holyfield was just an afterthought. It was all to lure Jake Paul back into a mega-money event. I imagine I’m not the only fight fan that was enraged with this insane main event. And while I hope Evander got paid a truckload of cash (an 18-wheeler!), I also hope that nobody reading your mailbag supported that Triller card, Doug. These people clearly don’t care about real boxing fans, so I’m very interested to see what kind of numbers they pulled in this weekend. Do they even know who their target demo is? Regardless, I’m certain that the complete moral bankruptcy on display at Triller will eventually result in its financial bankruptcy. Keep up the great work, Doug! – Kevin, (Based in Vancouver but from Dublin) Thank you, Kevin, I will do my best. And thank you for sharing those very special and painful memories of your father with the Mailbag column. I can understand how it was extra heartbreaking for you to witness The Real Deal get treated like a rag doll (during and after the Triller Fight Club main event). Sometimes boxing is so cruel to its heroes that I just can’t stomach it. I’ve never watched Holmes-Ali or Norris-Leonard or Joppy-Duran for that reason, and I never will. I love the sport too much to allow the dark side of it and the ruthless elements of the business make me hate it. Having said that, I have no problem with anyone who paid $50 to watch Saturday’s s__t show. It’s their money. If they want to ball-up five $10 bills and cram ’em up their asses that’s their prerogative. God Bless ’em! Also, while I understand your outrage, I don’t want to see Triller go out of business. I’m not a fan of the Fight Club “Legends” exhibitions, but it’s good for boxing to have another platform for legitimate matchups to be showcased on. Here in the U.S., just having Showtime, FOX, ESPN/ESPN+ and DAZN isn’t enough accommodate all the fighters who are deserving of network exposure (and those platforms don’t work with enough promoters). It’s great that we’ve also got Ring City USA on NBC Sports Net and UFC Fight Pass, but it’s not enough. The TrillerVerz Tuesday night fights series kicked off with a well-received show headlined by heavyweight contender Michael Hunter at the Hulu Theater inside MSG on Aug. 3 and it continues tomorrow with what looks like a very solid card in Hollywood, Florida. That show has fighters from Miguel Cotto Promotions, Golden Boy, Thompson Boxing and Banner Promotions, and RDR Promotions, among others; and the matchups are legit: Undefeated (15-0) Puerto Rican up-and-comer Danielito Zorrilla vs. heavy handed Mexican veteran Pablo Cesar Cano is the quintessential crossroads bout at 140 pounds. There’s a scheduled lightweight match between once-beaten prospects Michael Dutchover (15-1) and Nahir Albright (13-1). There’s also a Mexican power puncher I’m familiar with from recent Thompson Boxing promotions named Miguel Madueno (24-0, with 22 KOs), who might just be “must-see TV.” I skipped Holyfield-Belfort but I’m more than happy to shell out $2.99 for a one-month pass to watch TrillerVerz on Fite.TV and I hope they’re able to continue the monthly Tuesday night series (if they keep up the quality matchmaking). I’m also curious to see what they do with the Oct. 4 Triller PPV topped with Teofimo Lopez vs. George Kambosos.   THOUGHTS ON OSCAR VALDEZ Hey Doug, Hope everything’s well with you. I decided for the first time ever to boycott a fight because of obvious reasons. I feel that if us boxing fans want change, we need to show it with our money not with words. In the end, Twitter, boxing forums and discussion boards are mostly a bunch of biased fanboys trying to defend their guy no matter what they’ve done, right or wrong. Posting and trying to win an argument there makes absolutely no difference, so I decided to use the only power I have to make my opinion count: my hard-earned cash. I admit that at first, I was outraged by the fact that Valdez tested positive. He was becoming my favorite Mexican fighter and was excited to see him fight, so I felt sad and angry to see him fail a test. After I calmed down and saw exactly what he tested positive for I decided to inform myself a little bit more. I read everything that was reported by The Ring including both Dan Rafael’s article and the VADA response by Dr. Margaret Goodman, also read Tweets by Mr. Coppinger and Victor Conte’s opinion about the subject and came to my own conclusion: there’s a reason VADA prohibits these kinds of stimulants in and out of competition. And as Dr. Goodman said, I won’t get into that, we can all find it on the internet if we want to. Now, since I didn’t watch the fight, I won’t get into all this robbery thing. From what I’m reading it seems fans were looking for reasons for them to score against Valdez just because they wanted him to lose rather than score the fight appropriately. Media I trust like you and Steve Kim (and others) scored the fight for Valdez calling it how you saw it while fans are screaming robbery. The main thing here is that Oscar Valdez’s reputation was hurt a lot more during this whole fight camp than any loss inside the ring would have hurt him. If he did do this on purpose or trusted someone when he took these supplements, he will forever regret that decision. From now on, at least from a group of people, he will forever be looked on as a cheater. That’s a knockdown way more difficult to climb up from than any other. I feel it’s easier to forgive a guy that comes out and admits his wrong doings rather than make up stuff like the herbal tea story. People can apologize and people forgive. If you don’t believe this look at how Mike Tyson is looked at today.  He was a convicted rapist, bit off a guy’s ear, admitted faking his tests in his own book, did all sort of nasty things in the last third of his career, threatened to eat Lennox Lewis children and now he’s everybody’s Teddy Bear. America forgives, there’s a lot of proof out there (Tiger Woods anybody?). We’re humans and make mistakes. I’m sure Valdez is learning from whatever he did, knowingly or not. One of the biggest things I’ve learned in recent years is to take responsibility of my acts and stop blaming results on others; stop making excuses. Guys need to man up and face the problems they created and stop making excuses or blaming others for it. Ever since I did that I managed to improve because I was able to identify mistakes I was making; things I blamed on external things were now clearer to me and I was able to change them and improve. If Oscar wants to turn things around, he really needs to do some soul searching, see where things went wrong and change that. He’s still young and can still change the narrative. As of right now, I’ll continue to put my money where my mouth is. Thanks Doug. – Juan Valverde, Chula Vista That’s the right thing to do, Juan, just don’t forget to use some of that money to support VADA. If it wasn’t for Dr. Goodman’s testing organization, pretty much every active high-profile boxer would be able to claim they’re “clean” because they passed the sub-standard state commission PED tests. Nine out of 10 times when we hear about a positive drug test in boxing, it’s a VADA test. I admit that at first, I was outraged by the fact that Valdez tested positive. He was becoming my favorite Mexican fighter and was excited to see him fight, so I felt sad and angry to see him fail a test. Valdez went from hero to zero with that positive test and the way he and his team handled it. All the fans he earned with his sensational performance and stoppage against Miguel Berchelt has been flushed down the toilet. As of now, and for the foreseeable future, he’s got the “The Mexican They Love to Hate” title that was created for Antonio Margarito and eventually passed on to his superstar stablemate Canelo. After I calmed down and saw exactly what he tested positive for I decided to inform myself a little bit more. I hope other fans – and, more importantly, boxers – did the same thing. It sucks when fighter pop positive, but it’s always an opportunity for those fighters and the boxing world to bone up on whatever “The Banned Substance of the Month” is. I read everything that was reported by The Ring including both Dan Rafael’s article and the VADA response by Dr. Margaret Goodman, also read Tweets by Mr. Coppinger and Victor Conte’s opinion about the subject and came to my own conclusion: there’s a reason VADA prohibits these kinds of stimulants in and out of competition. There shouldn’t be “out-of-competition” lists. If it’s a performance enhancer, it needs to stay out of the bodies of combat athletes. Now, since I didn’t watch the fight, I won’t get into all this robbery thing. It was a close fight.

Valdez vs. Conceição. Photo by Mikey Williams/Top Rank Inc via Getty Images From what I’m reading it seems fans were looking for reasons for them to score against Valdez just because they wanted him to lose rather than score the fight appropriately. Hey, that’s how it goes when you’re “The Mexican They Love to Hate,” but in fairness to Robson Conceicao, the Brazilian boxed very well for much of the fight, especially the first half. But Valdez came on strong over the second half, landing the more effective punches in most of the rounds. That bogus point deduction didn’t help the challenger (I guess the ref and the official judges didn’t get the memo that Valdez is the TMTLTH). The main thing here is that Oscar Valdez’s reputation was hurt a lot more during this whole fight camp than any loss inside the ring would have hurt him. No doubt about it. His image would have fared much better if he’d admitted he f__ked up, apologized to his fans, his team, his management, promoter, the WBC, the tribal commission in Tucson, and then signed up for extensive VADA testing for the next three-to-six months. And if he got through that period without a positive, return to the ring as humbly as possible. I feel it’s easier to forgive a guy that comes out and admits his wrong doings rather than make up stuff like the herbal tea story. I agree, but what if that really is what he believes? People can apologize and people forgive. They can. They don’t always do so, but hopefully most can. If you don’t believe this look at how Mike Tyson is looked at today. He was a convicted rapist, bit off a guy’s ear, admitted faking his tests in his own book, did all sort of nasty things in the last third of his career, threatened to eat Lennox Lewis children and now he’s everybody’s Teddy Bear. Yeah, but that didn’t happen overnight, Juan. Tyson was “The N__ga They Love to Hate” for 10-15 years. The American public began to mellow on him as he began to mellow out with age (and a LOT of marijuana). But his brutal honesty (especially when he aimed it at himself) has always been a part of his appeal. I don’t think you can compare other boxers with Tyson, who was a bona fide global superstar. The public likes to see celebrities fall, but they also enjoy redemption stories among the famous. Read the full article

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Mike Tyson Settles Paul Vs. Woodley Debate, Jake Won!

Mike Tyson Settles Paul Vs. Woodley Debate, Jake Won!

Play video content TMZSports.com No, Tyron Woodley did NOT get screwed over by the judges on Sunday … so says Mike Tyson, who tells TMZ Sports Jake Paul was the clear winner of the epic boxing match. The split decision in favor of the YouTube superstar was met with serious backlash on social media … with folks from Claressa Shields to Ben Askren to Tyron himself saying he should have had his…

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ake Paul defeats Mike Tyson via unanimous decision in highly anticipated fight

Jake Paul lands a punch on Mike Tyson during their fight at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, on November 15. Read more.....

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Three Undefeated Boxers Highlight Triller Fight Club Undercard Expansion For April 17 in Atlanta

(Quinton Randall)

Triller Fight Club today announced the latest additions to a world-class lineup of boxing for its April 17 event at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. Joining the global PPV boxing and entertainment extravaganza will be three undefeated boxers, including welterweight Quinton Randall (Houston, 7-0), super middleweight Junior Younan (Brooklyn, N.Y., 15-0-1) and middleweight Lorenzo “Truck” Simpson (Baltimore, Md., 9-0). Simpson will meet Francisco Torres (Buenos Aires, 16-3-1), while Younan will meet Jeyson Minda (Quito, Ecuador/Salem, Mass., 14-4-1) with an opponent TBD for Randall. Triller Fight Club is a partnership between leading music and social media platform Triller and Snoop Dogg, and is spearheaded by visionary producer Ryan Kavanaugh.

“Nowhere will you find this mix of world class fights mixed with some of the biggest names in entertainment,” said Peter Kahn, Triller Fight Club Chief Boxing Officer. “The undercard we have built continues to stoke the fire for boxing fans, who will come for the action and love the music, while our audience coming for our elite music talent will be enthralled by the hard hitting, fast paced mix of legends and rising stars in the ring. Everyone learns, we grow audiences together and our vision of four quadrant entertainment reinvents the pay per view experience, with more to come.”

As revealed least week, the card will also have another fan favorite, hard hitting Steve Cunningham (Philadelphia) replacing Antonio Tarver in the previously announced fight against Frank Mir.

These world class additions help round out Triller Fight Club’s first in a series of 2021 special events. In the headline matchup April 17 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Jake Paul takes on former Bellator and OneFC champion Ben Askren, while Regis Prograis (New Orleans), a former world champion and arguably one of the top two super lightweights in the world, takes on Ivan Redkach (Shostka, Ukraine); heavyweight MMA Bad Boy Mir (Las Vegas) will battle Cunningham (Philadelphia); and Joe Fournier (London) will challenge music icon and worldwide star Reykon (Envigado, Colombia).

Since turning professional shortly after his 18th birthday in 2013, the Brooklyn born Younan (15-0-1, 10 KOs) has stopped all opponents in the first two rounds. In his last start on March 9, 2019, he won a dominant unanimous decision over Derrick Findley in Verona, N.Y. Prior to turning professional Younan was a very highly decorated amateur including a 2011 National Junior Olympic Championship, a four-time National Silver Gloves champion, a three-time National PAL champion and a two-time National Junior Golden Gloves champion.

The former U.S. national boxing champion, Randall (7-0) turned pro in February 2019 and has quickly racked up seven victories, including two by way of stoppage. The 30-year-old native of Houston last fought in The Bubble at MGM Grand in Las Vegas on October 17, 2020, a unanimous decision over Jan Carlos Rivera. He is one of boxing’s great redemption stories, having overcome a series of personal tragedies, including the death of his eight year old son in a car accident, to turn his professional career around and put him in a position for continued success, now with TFC.

Minda enters at 14-4-1 with nine KO’s. The native Ecuadorian will bring a loyal and diverse Latino fan base to the card as well for his fast rising undefeated opponent.

The 20-year-old (9-0, 5 knockouts) Simpson made his pro debut in December 2018, and last fought in October, scoring a unanimous decision over Sonny Duversonne. Simpson is a 12 time National Champ and six time Silver Gloves winner, who many have dubbed “The Future of American Boxing.”

Torres (16-3, 5 KOs) has won his last eight bouts, two by KO, since April 2-18. He last fought on February 20, taking a unanimous decision from Louis Hernandez in Shelbyville, Ohio. Last August he claimed the WBA Fedecaribe super welterweight title with a win over Cleotis Pendarvis in Daytona Beach, Fla.

The lineup for the four-hour Pay Per View show will include performances by Justin Bieber, The Black Keys, Doja Cat, Saweetie, Diplo, Major Lazer, and the exclusive world premiere of the hip hop supergroup Mt. Westmore (Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, Too $hort and E-40) performing for their first time ever together. Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Bert Marcus will lead and direct the creative storytelling for the Triller Fight Club event.

The lead up to April 17 officially also includes an original series exclusively on Triller and FITE. “PRBLM CHILD” is a raw, all-access look into the life of one of the world’s most polarizing and controversial personalities, YouTuber-turned-boxer Paul, as he trains for his fight vs. Askren. The series also will include boxing legends Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Ryan Garcia, Jorge Masvidal and Snoop Dogg, among many more.

In addition to being a co-owner, Snoop also provides strategic counsel to Triller Fight Club, helping to select fighters and musical acts for the show-stopping events. An entertainment expert who has successfully maneuvered through a range of projects in a variety of different fields, Snoop secured his spot as a fan favorite during Triller's first sporting event, Tyson vs. Jones.

iNDemand, the leading transactional video-on-demand and PPV programming provider in North America, will serve as the exclusive U.S. and Canadian cable, satellite, and telco PPV provider for the event. Fans will be able to order the event on PPV through their existing cable, satellite and telco PPV providers, including Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, DIRECTV & U-Verse TV, Fios, and Optimum in the U.S., as well as leading providers in Canada.

FITE, the premier PPV digital platform, will handle worldwide live pay-per-view streaming distribution online, and via FITE mobile and Smart TV apps, game controllers and all major OTT devices as well as power TrillerFightClub.com.

The suggested PPV retail price for the event is $49.99 (U.S. & Canada). Fans outside North America can check the FITE link at https://www.fite.tv/watch/jake-paul-vs-ben-askren/2p8y0/ for international pricing. All fight information can be found at TrillerFightClub.com, which features fight news, announcements, promotional videos, and the digital portal to buy the event.

**HOW TO WATCH THE APRIL 17, 2021, TRILLER FIGHT CLUB PPV EVENT**

TV: Cable, satellite & telco PPV providers, including Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, DIRECTV & U-Verse TV, Fios, and Optimum (U.S.), as well as leading providers in Canada.

Worldwide Streaming: FITE.TV and all FITE mobile, Smart TV, game controller and OTT apps as well as the event microsite hub: TrillerFightClub.com

Triller Fight Club, April 17, 2021

Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta

Bout Schedule as of March 30, 2021

Main event:

Jake Paul, Cleveland (2-0, 2 KOs) vs. Ben Askren, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (pro debut/boxing, 19-2-0, 6 Kos/MMA), 8 rounds, cruiserweight

Undercard:

Regis Prograis, New Orleans (25-1, 21 KOs) vs. Ivan Redkach, Shostka, Ukraine (23-5, 18 KOs), 10 rounds, super lightweight

Steve Cunningham, Philadelphia (29-9-1, 13 KOs), vs. Frank Mir, Las Vegas (pro debut/boxing, 18-11-0, 14KOs/MMA), 8 rounds, heavyweight

Joe Fournier, London (8-0, 8 KOs), vs. Andres Felipe Robledo Lodono (“Reykon”), Envigado, Colombia (pro debut), 6 rounds, light heavyweight

Junior Younan, Brooklyn (15-0-1, 10 KOs), vs. Jeyson Minda, Quito, Ecuador (14-4-1, 8 KOs), 8 rounds, super middleweight

Lorenzo Simpson, Baltimore (9-0, 5 KOs) vs. Francisco Torres (Buenos Aires, 16-3-1) 8 rounds, middleweight

Quinton Randall, Houston (7-0, 2 KOs) vs TBD 8 rounds, welterweight

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Also Known As: WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2011

Genre: Sports, Wrestling Developer: Yukes Publisher: THQ ESRB Rating: Teen Release Date: October 26, 2010

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Christian Challenge Matches

Week 4 – After the Peep Show, before talking to Tiffany, go to the top lockerroom on the map and talk to Regal. He will challenge you for Superstars. Week 5 – Find Kane and get challenged to an Inferno Match. Week 7 – Find CM Puink in the hallways and talk to him. He will fight you inan extreme rules match at Superstars. Week 9 – Find Jericho in the trainer’s room. He will challenge you forSuperstars. Week 11 – Find Legacy backstage. Fight them 2-on-1 at Superstars. WrestleMania – Cash in against Edge, then check the Green Room to challengeStone Cold

Undertaker Challenge Matches

Week 2 – Backstage Brawl // Randy Orton Week 3 – Backstage Brawl // Kozlov Royal Rumble – Backstage Brawl // Ziggler Week 9 – Tables Match // Big Show Week 12 – Backstage Brawl // Batista WrestleMania – Last Man Standing // The Rock

Rey Challenge Matches

Week 3 – Submission Match // Jericho Week 4 – 6 Man Tag // Los Conquistadors Week 6 – Singles Match // R Truth Week 9 – Singles Match // Bourne vs Orton (talk to Orton in top Locker Room at Elim Chamber to set this up) Week 10 – Cage // Hurricane (talk to him in the lower locker room to set this up before teaming with RVD) WrestleMania – Extreme Rules // Terry Funk (find him in the Green Room)

Cena Challenge Matches

Week 4 – Backstage Brawl // Confront Sheamus in the middle Locker Room Week 5 – Tag Match on SD // Fight Truth & Consequences (talk to MVP to set this up) Week 7 – Tag Match on SD // Truth & Consequences for the titles (unlocks civilian MVP) Week 8 – Backstage Brawl // Legacy (unlocks civilian Cena & entrance) Week 11 – Tag Team // with Santino vs Legacy WrestleMania – Singles Match // Vince in the Green Room

Remove The Turnbuckle

To remove it walk up to it and press X. Don’t run.

Jericho Challenge Matches

Week 1 – Singles Match // The Miz Week 5 – Singles Match // Santino (talk to Santino at the Royal Rumble to set this up) Week 7 – Parking Lot // Cena Week 8 – Diva Match // Maryse vs Beth Week 11 – Singles Match // Santino vs Big Show (talk to Santino in the hall to setup your interference) WrestleMania – Singles Match // Find Steamboat in the Green Room

Cheats

Randy Orton Alt. Attires

Apexpredator (all lower case) to unlock all three of randy orton’s attires.

Hardcore, Million Dollar And Cruiserweight Championships

At cheat codes screen enter HISTORICALBELTS as a case-sensitive code enjoy!

John Cena Street Fight Gear And Avatar T-Shirt

Go to the “Cheat Codes” section and enter: SLURPEE

Hardcore, Million Dollar And Cruiserweight Championships

To unlock Hardcore, Million Dollar And Cruiserweight Championships go to cheat codes screen and enter historicalbelts , the one people who gift the codes is wrong because he/she caps lock it.

Tribute To The Troops Arena

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Unlock Jimmy Hart

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Arenas

Backlash Arena – Play a match at Backlash Bragging Rights Arena – Play a match at Bragging Rights Hell In A Cell Arena – Play a match at Hell In A Cell Judgement Day Arena – Play a match at Judgement Day Royal Rumble Arena – Play a match at Royal Rumble TLC Arena – Play a match at TLC Wrestlemania Arena – Play a match at Wrestlemania Druid Arena – Complete all 5 RTWMs

Unlockable Superstars

Brie Bella – Win one Women’s Championship with any Diva on PPV / WWE Universe Druid – Beat all five RTWMs Ezekiel Jackson – Win five 1-on-1 matches on “WWE Superstars” with any Superstar / WWE Universe Finlay – Win one “SmackDown” 1-on-1 match with any Superstar / WWE Universe Gail Kim – Win one Divas-only match with any Diva / WWE Universe Goldust – Win ten “Raw” 1-on-1 matches with any Superstar / WWE Universe Jake “The Snake” Roberts – In the “Vs. Undertaker RTWM”, do not take heavy damage to any limbs in Week 9 against Jake Roberts Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka – In the “Vs. Undertaker RTWM”, win in under 3 minutes during the Week 10 Match Of The Week Mickie James – Win five Divas-only 1-on-1 matches with any Diva / WWE Universe Mike Knox – Win five “SmackDown” 1-on-1 matches with any Superstar / WWE Universe Nikki Bella – Win one Women’s Championship with any Diva on PPV (WWE Universe, 1-on-1 matches) Paul Bearer (Manager) – Beat the “Vs. Undertaker RTWM” Ricky Steamboat – In Jericho’s RTWM, win the WrestleMania Challenge against Ricky Steamboat after completing all previous Challenge matches Rob Van Dam – Beat Rey Mysterio’s RTWM with Rey set to “Good” Shelton Benjamin – Win ten “SmackDown” 1-on-1 matches with any Superstar / WWE Universe Stone Cold Steve Austin – In Christian’s RTWM, win the WrestleMania Challenge against Stone Cold after completing all previous Challenge matches Terry Funk – In Rey Mysterio’s RTWM, win the WrestleMania Challenge against Terry Funk after completing all previous Challenge matches The Rock – In “Vs. Undertaker RTWM”, win the WrestleMania Challenge against The Rock after completing all previous Challenge matches Vince McMahon – In John Cena’s RTWM, win the WrestleMania Challenge against Vince McMahon, Sheamus, and Drew McIntyre after completing all previous Challenge matches Vladimir Kozlov – Win one “Raw” 1-on-1 match with any Superstar / WWE Universe William Regal – Win ten “WWE Superstars” 1-on-1 match with any Superstar / WWE Universe Yoshi Tatsu – Win five “Raw” 1-on-1 matches with any Superstar / WWE Universe Zack Ryder – Win one “WWE Superstars” 1-on-1 match with any Superstar / WWE Universe

Unlockable Attire

Batista (Civilian) – In Jericho’s RTWM, beat Kofi, Henry, and Batista in Week 8 Chris Jericho (Civilian) – In Jericho’s RTWM, talk to Stephanie McMahon in the GM’s office, then win Week 1’s Match Of The Week, while executing at least one finisher and not taking heavy damage Christian (Civilian) – In Christian’s RTWM, defeat Tyson Kidd or William Regal in a Royal Rumble side story match Christian (Conquistador) – Initiate the Week 4 Challenge in Rey Mysterio’s RTWM CM Punk (T-Shirt) – Purchase “ALL Axxess” from the WWE Shop Edge (Civilian) – In Christian’s RTWM, defeat Big Show in a locker room area during the “Elimination Chamber” Jack Swagger (Civilian) – In Rey Mysterio’s RTWM, partner with Jack Swagger during Week 3, and win the Match Of The Week as Jack Swagger John Cena (Entrance/Civilian) – In Cena’s RTWM, win the Week 8 Challenge against Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase Masked Kane Attire – beat Masked Kane in the “Vs. Undertaker RTWM” MVP (Civilian) – In Cena’s RTWM, win both the Week 5 and Week 7 Tag Team Challenge Match against R-Truth and Mike Knox Randy Orton (Ref attire) – In Cena’s RTWM, defeat Randy Orton in the WrestleMania Match Of The Week during the Lost Week 9 timeline Randy Orton (Suit) – In Cena’s RTWM, defeat Randy Orton in the WrestleMania Match Of The Week during the Won Week 9 timeline Randy Orton (T-Shirt) – In Cena’s RTWM, defeat Randy Orton in under 3 minutes during the Week 12 “I Quit” match in the Lost Week 9 timeline Rey Mysterio (Civilian) – In Rey Mysterio’s RTWM, eliminate Evan Bourne in the Royal Rumble and win the Royal Rumble Rey Mysterio (Evil) and Entrance Scene – Successfully complete Rey Mysterio’s RTWM with Rey set to “Evil” Shawn Michaels (Civilian) – Purchase “ALL Axxess” at the WWE Shop Ted DiBiase (T-Shirt) – In Cena’s RTWM, defeat Ted DiBiase to win the Week 11 Tag Team Challenge against Ted DiBiase and Cody Rhodes Todo Americano – In Rey Mysterio’s RTWM, perform a finisher on Todo Americano while playing as Evan Bourne in Week 12 Triple H (Civilian) – In Jericho’s RTWM, escape to the parking lot without losing to Triple H in Week 6 Vince McMahon (Suit) – In Jericho’s RTWM, win the WWE Championship against Triple H at WrestleMania XXVI

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THQ Storytellers – Create a story in Story Designer with at least 2 moments.

Magna Cum Laude – Complete all of the tips in the Practice Arena.

Talk About Resilient – Kick out of The Undertaker’s Tombstone Piledriver finisher on Legend difficulty (Offline).

A Successful Cash In – Cash in Money In The Bank in WWE Universe and win using a created character (Offline).

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Mr. Money in the Bank – Win the Money In The Bank match in WWE Universe using a created character (Offline).

Unified Tag Champs – Win the Unified Tag Team titles in WWE Universe using a created character (Offline).

Streak Breaker – Complete the Vs. Undertaker Road to WrestleMania story on any difficulty.

The Last Man Standing – Win a Royal Rumble match on Xbox LIVE.

Intercontinental Champ – Win the Intercontinental Championship in WWE Universe using a created character (Offline).

A Student Of The Game – Complete 50% of the tips in the Practice Arena.

Backstage Fisticuffs – During a backstage brawl, string 3 environmental grapple combos in succession (Offline).

Power Of The Punch – Win a match in which you successfully KO an opponent using a strong strike (Offline).

5-Second Pose – Complete Christian’s Road to WrestleMania story on any difficulty.

Secret Achievement – Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.

Way To Contribute – Upload at least one item of created content to each category of Community Creations.

Champion of Champions – Using a created character, hold either the WWE or World Heavyweight title (Offline).

Randy’s Fired – Complete John Cena’s Road to WrestleMania story on any difficulty.

Thank You Shawn – Defeat Shawn Michaels in the WrestleMania arena on Legend difficulty as Undertaker (Offline).

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Pin or submit Undertaker in the WrestleMania arena on Legend difficulty (Offline).

No More Mystery, Yo – Complete Rey Mysterio’s Road to WrestleMania story on any difficulty.

Secret Achievement – Continue playing to unlock this secret achievement.

US Champ – Using a created character, win the United States Championship in WWE Universe (Offline).

Runaway Champ – Complete Chris Jericho’s Road to WrestleMania story on any difficulty.