Tyson versus footballer fight proposed
NZPA-AP Milwaukee The boxing promoter, Don King, and a billionaire, Donald Trump, have shown new interest in a proposed fight between the heavyweight champ, Mike Tyson and the professional footballer Tony Mandarich. An agent, Vern Sharbaugh, who represents Mandarich, said he met for more than two hours last week with King at the promoter’s headquarters in Orwell, Ohio. “I was encouraged simply by the fact that we met,” Sharbaugh said in an interview in the “Milwaukee Sentinel” newspaper. “If King
wasn’t at all interested, we never would have met.” Mandarich is a 1.95 m, 140 kg football player from Michigan State University. He has said he wants SUSIO million ($16.4 million) to fight Tyson. No financial terms have been discussed with King, Sharbaugh said. “Mike Tyson had a press conference and said he wanted to fight Mandarich. Tony wants to fight. The public wants this fight. Donald Trump is excited. But it’s all up to Don King,” Sharbaugh said. But Bill Cayton, Tyson’s estranged manager, said yesterday in New York that
“there’s not a chance the fight will happen; It’s ridiculous. He can’t fight. He’s never fought.” Tyson is in litigation to break his managerial contract with Cayton, but as of now Cayton must approve Tyson’s opponents.
King has said previously he opposed a fight between Mandarich and Tyson, because it would be unfair to let a football player have a chance to fight the world champion ahead of other professional boxers.
The promoter could not be immediately reached for comment.
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