Mike Tyson has made all kinds of moves since ending his boxing career and now he’s adding another title to his resume: boxing promoter. Yep, the champ finalized the deal last night with his newly formed Iron Mike Productions.
Congrats to him! Details after the jump…
Via ESPN:
Former heavyweight champion and novice actor Mike Tyson is coming to ESPN, but not as a fighter or performer. He is coming as a boxing promoter.
Tyson’s newly formed Iron Mike Productions will put on a pair of title bouts at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y., on Aug. 23 as the ESPN2 “Friday Night Fights” season, due to end Aug. 16, is being extended by one week to accommodate the card. The deal was finalized Tuesday night.
Junior lightweight world titleholder Argenis Mendez (21-2, 11 KOs) will make his first title defense when he faces Arash Usmanee (20-1, 10 KOs) in the main event. In the co-feature, Claudio Marrero (14-0, 11 KOs) will face Jesus Andres Cuellar (22-1, 18 KOs) for a vacant interim featherweight title.
“We are thrilled to be finishing off the ‘Friday Night Fights’ season with Mike Tyson’s first-ever fight card as a promoter,” said ESPN senior director of programming and acquisitions Brian Kweder, who programs boxing for the network. “The quality of the card that he and his team have put together for boxing fans is fantastic.”
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