But Tyson had not had an official role in the sport — until now. Tyson is entering the promotional end of the sport and is excited to be there.
“I thought about it, I talked to my wife [Kiki] about it and we thought we wanted to do it,” Tyson said in an interview with ESPN2’s “Friday Night Fights” about his upstart Iron Mike Productions. “I feel so awesome to be involved with the game again. That just feels so awesome.”
The first card under the Iron Mike Productions banner will take place Aug. 23 at the Turning Stone Resort Casino in Verona, N.Y. The card, the season finale of “Friday Night Fights,” will feature junior lightweight world titleholder Argenis Mendez (21-2, 11 KOs) in his first title defense against Arash Usmanee (20-1, 10 KOs) in the main event with Claudio Marrero (14-0, 11 KOs) taking on Jesus Andres Cuellar (22-1, 18 KOs) for a vacant interim featherweight title in the co-feature.