Deontay Wilder is a +150 underdog, while Zhang is -150 to win. The over under on rounds is set at 6.5. The oddsmakers clearly favor a knockout between these two heavy handed contenders, with Zhang given the slight edge to do so.

allowed the fight to take place there. When the fight finally took place in June of 2002, Lennox knocked Tyson out in the eighth round. It was almost anti-climactic that the unbeatable Iron Mike had been felled again.

Once he got going, it seemed like Pedro couldn’t miss – particularly with his right hand. A combination knocked Turkalj off balance, but “The Pleasure Man” remained upright. After a few more combinations, a Pedro right hand put Turkalj down. A wicked hammerfist followed and turned Turkalj’s lights out.

In 2003, Mike Tyson made headlines when he got a tattoo on his face. The tattoo, which covers the left side of his face, features a tribal design that extends from his temple to his cheek. While tattoos had been gaining popularity at the time, particularly among athletes and musicians, Tyson’s decision to get such a prominent tattoo on his face was seen as particularly bold and controversial.

I was only 14, but I was a true believer in Cus’s philosophy. Always training, thinking like a Roman gladiator, being in a perpetual state of war in your mind, yet on the outside seeming calm and relaxed.

Tyson’s mother died when he was 16, leaving him in the care of D’Amato, who would become his legal guardian. Tyson later said, “I never saw my mother happy with me and proud of me for doing something: she only knew me as being a wild kid running the streets, coming home with new clothes that she knew I didn’t pay for. I never got a chance to talk to her or know about her. Professionally, it has no effect, but it’s crushing emotionally and personally.”

“The night he won the title from Trevor Berbick, I came in from a club at 4 in the morning and who was sitting in the lobby by himself with that title belt around his waist, but Mike Tyson,” said Wallace Matthews, a boxing writer for “Newsday” and “The New York Post.” “He was lonely, isolated. wasn’t sure what to do with himself.”

While interest in watching real boxing seems to have declined, movies about the sport keep drawing viewers in. Following its release in 2004, “Million Dollar Baby” grossed more than $200 million at the global box office and went on to win an Oscar for best picture. “The Fighter” (2010) topped $120 million and was nominated for seven Academy Awards; the “Rocky” spinoff “Creed” (2015) made more than $170 million, while its 2018 sequel surpassed even that.

He went on to say that making the movie had been an “exhilarating” experience for both of them and that he senses that Tyson is happier now, that he doesn’t have “the same degree of doom” he had before he met Kiki. Toback recalled their “late-night conversations about sex, love, madness and death” and then, lest I think I might intuit something about the ex-fighter that had escaped others, Toback suddenly issued a pronouncement: “No one gets him. You can’t get him if you haven’t been where he’s been.”

Of course, we now know that after 1239 days – or the longest injury layoff in UFC history – Pedro would not simply return to that Las Vegas Octagon, but defeat American Ike Villanueva via first round KO.

Months earlier, in July 1991, Washington and Tyson had crossed paths at a rehearsal for the Miss Black America pageant in Indianapolis, Indiana, where Washington was a contestant. The 18-year-old went to Tyson’s room with him, where she says he raped her.

3. The tradition of boxers getting tattoos can be traced back to the early 1900s when sailors returning from their journeys would often have tattoos to showcase their adventurous spirit. Boxers, seeking to exhibit strength and toughness, adopted this trend, and it became popular within the sport.

Tyson has referred to his tattoo as a symbol of his own personal strength and warrior spirit inside the boxing ring. This connection to warrior culture is fitting given Tyson’s reputation as one of the most dominant boxers of his generation. His tattoo serves as a reminder of his own fierce fighting spirit, and reflects the warrior traditions he admires.

With the victory, Pedro bounces back into the win column after a February unanimous decision loss to Modestas Bukauskas. He has now won three of his most recent four. In defeat, Turkalj has now lost three consecutive bouts to start his UFC tenure.

Michael Gerard Tyson was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 30, 1966, to Lorna Tyson and Jimmy Kirkpatrick. Kirkpatrick left the family when his son was two years old. As a youth Tyson joined a street gang at a very early age and was in trouble with the law many times before he was 12 years old. After an arrest for armed robbery he was sent to the Tyron School in 1978, a correction center for juveniles in upstate New York. It was there that his life changed direction. The school’s physical education teacher saw potential in the young man and introduced him to legendary 180 lbs boxing division trainer Cus D’Amato, who lived near the facility at the time. Tyson thrived under the new structure and discipline in his life. Tyson moved in with D’Amato and, when the boxer’s mother died when he was 16, D’Amato became his legal guardian. Tyson was sent back to the Tyron School for a time after he was threatened with a gun by his then-trainer Teddy Atlas. The trainer had heard that Tyson sexually abused a 12-year-old girl and was trying to frighten him. Tyson made stunning progress as an amateur and decided to try out for the Olympic team at the age of 17. After failing to make the 1984 Olympic team, D’Amato decided that it was time for his fighter to turn professional.