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Tyson goal: WBA title, keep busy
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LAS VEGAS Meet Mike Tyson, boxing's equal-opportunity destroyer.
Tyson, at 20 the youngest world heavyweight champion, will risk
his World Boxing Council title against the World Boxing Association
title holder James "Bonecrusher" Smith, 33, tomorrow night in the
Hilton Hotel's 14,600-seat outdoor area.
The winner will emerge, for all practical purposes, as the
undisputed champion while the International Boxing Federation tries
to get its division back in order.
The...
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 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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I honestly don't think they'll let me get back into the ring; TYSON FEARS BOXING CHIEFS WON'T OVERTURN FIGHT BAN.(Sport)
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; Former world heavyweight champ-ion Mike Tyson admitted yesterday that he's scared he won't be allowed to fight again. Tyson is currently awaiting a decision on his appeal against the boxing ban imposed for biting Evander Holyfield's ears during a fight last June. The Nevada State Athletic
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Tyson is happy to stick with King
The Independent - London
; A humble and subdued Mike Tyson, the former world heavyweight champion, read out a statement yesterday announcing that he would return to the ring, become a better person and retain his fellow ex-convict Don King as his fight promoter. "I will fight again," he declared in his first statement since
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Tyson set for ring return at age 40
China Daily
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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DOPE ON A ROPE; How Mike Tyson spent over $300m to become bankrupt.(News)
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; Byline: ANTHONY HARWOOD FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has filed for bankruptcy after blowing nearly $300million (pounds 250million). He is on the ropes after squandering his ring earnings on a lavish lifestyle of mansions, limousines, expensive jewellery and even Bengal
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 "Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)")
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BOXING: LEWIS v TYSON: Holyfield: Tyson will do the job.(Sport)
Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales)
; EVANDER HOLYFIELD, the three-times world heavyweight champion who has fought both Lewis and Tyson, predicts the self-styled ``baddest man on the planet'' will triumph. Holyfield twice got the better of Tyson - including the infamous ear-bite fight in Las Vegas - and was beaten in two gruelling
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Boxing: Danny tells Tyson: You are too old to scare me.(Sport)
The Mirror (London, England)
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 "Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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Boxing: IT'LL COST YOU pounds 1000 TO SEE TYSON.(Sport)
Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
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Former Champion Tyson Considering a Fight at MCI Center
The Washington Post
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 "The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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boxing - Tyson lost will to win.(Sport)
The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
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