Tyson Fury revealed the staggering sum Mike Tyson wanted for a potential ring clash. Despite the heavyweight boxing sensation expressing his desire to face the American legend, it appears that financial expectations were too high to fulfill his dream.

“The Baddest Man on the Planet” will be ready to make his ceremonial return to the ring on November 15 at the prestigious AT&T Arena in Texas against social media influencer turned boxer Jake Paul. Although Tyson has been out of professional boxing since 2005 after a loss to Kevin McBride, fans were treated to an exhibition match in 2020 when he faced Roy Jones Jr.

In an unexpected way before the fight with Jones Jr. Tyson got into a Zoom discussion about fighting the “Gypsy King” himself, Tyson Fury. Although the British champion was interested in the prospect, the deal fell apart under the weight of Tyson’s extraordinary request for a payout.

“There has been talk of it,” Fury revealed IFL Television. “His people contacted me. Mike and I had a phone conversation. It was all real, but it never materialized. Whoever offered Mike money to come back was offering us peanuts.

“Mike was talking about the $500 million numbers [half a billion]but what came back to us on paper was a joke. It was crazy. I had a $10 million offer from ESPN to do the fight on the show, but I think everyone has moved on now.”

Fury then faced Deontay Wilder in the highly anticipated rematch between the two heavyweight giants, ultimately stopping his rival in the 11th round. He then secured wins over Dillian Whyte, Derek Chisora ​​and Francis Ngannou before suffering his first professional loss to Oleksandr Usyk earlier this year.

Fury is currently preparing for a rematch with the Ukrainian, wanting to avoid further defeats. Although the exhibition fight with “Iron Mike” never took place, Fury expressed his desire to enter the ring with the former heavyweight champion.

“I would love to share the ring with him and move on,” he continued. “But if he won, people would say I’m rubbish because a 53-year-old beat me.

“If I beat him, I would be a tyrant. This was a lose-lose situation for me. It was money; I didn’t have to fight a guy who was past his prime.”

The boxing community has raised eyebrows at the prospect of Tyson vs. Paul, with skepticism also surrounding Tyson’s involvement in the upcoming match.

Fans are wary because the esteemed “Iron Mike” made a surprising revelation on Jimmy Kimmel’s show about his current workout routine. The boxing legend informed the astonished host: “I train extremely challenging, I practice six hours a day.

This Monday, a triple world title fight will take place at the Ariake Arena in Tokyo, Japan, and in the main event Junto Nakatani will defend his WBC bantamweight title for the second time against Tasana Salapat from Thailand.

Top Rank is promoting the Nakatani vs Salapat fight and Sky Sports television in the UK.

Nakatani (28-0, 21 KO) won the vacant WBO flyweight title in November 2020, defeating Giemel Magramo in eight rounds, and traveled outside Japan for the first time to make his first defense, defeating Angel Acosta in the fourth round months later in Tucson.

After winning the super flyweight division, he then captured the vacant WBO super flyweight crown with a dominant last-round knockout of Andrew Moloney, defeating the Australian more than three times in a brutal fight.

After that crushing first defense, he rose to the top again, this time winning the WBC bantamweight title with a sixth-round victory over Alexandro Santiago. Nakatani was last sidelined in July due to needs in the round to knock out Vincent Astrolabio.

Junto Nakatani with a contender for the knockout of the year 😳

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— DAZN Boxing (@DAZNBoxing) May 21, 2023

Now he will face Salapat (76-1, 53 KO), a man with a record in which it seems that not all is well. The 30-year-old from Roi-Et challenged for world titles in December 2018, but was badly defeated on the cards by Takuma Inoue in a fight for the interim WBC super bantamweight title.

He has since won 28 straight fights, but against a terrible list of opponents, most of whom were losing records or fighting on their debut. In his last fight, he defended his WBC Asian belt for the fourth time, scoring in ten rounds over GuiMing Li 6-5-1 at Rangsit in July.

Tanaka defends his title against Cafu

Kosei Tanaka won the vacant WBO super flyweight title in his last fight and makes his first defense against Phumelele Cafu.

Tanaka (20-1, 11 KO) won the belt in February on clear points against Christian Rangel and previously reigned as the WBO minimum-to-super flyweight champion.

After three draws early in his career, Cafu (10-0-3, 8 KO) is on a six-fight winning streak, with the South African winning the IBF International belt in August and then knocking out Enathi Stelle in just 26 seconds in the last contest in December 2023 at getting a free South African bauble.

The WBO flyweight title is also at stake here, and champion Anthony Olascuaga will defend himself against Jonathan Gonzalez.

Olascuaga (7-1, 5 KO) won the vacant title in July, knocking out Riku Kano in three rounds after being stopped in nine by Kenshiro Teraji for the WBC lithe heavyweight championship last April.

Gonzalez (28-3-1, 14 KO) comes from lithe flyweight, where he defended his WBO title three times, most recently a points win over Rene Santiago in his native Puerto Rico in March.

THE RETURN OF THE CITY 🏙️

Anthony Olascuaga grabs KO with milliseconds remaining in the round!#TeajiBudler | @ESPNPlus | @PrimeVideo in Japan pic.twitter.com/CwY5SHllIR

— Top Rank Boxing (@trboxing) September 18, 2023

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Elsewhere, Tenshin Nasukawa (4-0, 2 KO) could win the vacant WBO Asia-Pacific bantamweight title after scoring points with Gerwin Asilo (9-0, 4 KO) and super lightweight hope Ayato Kobayashi (1-0, 0 KO ) ) can defeat Excell James Junior (2-1, 0 KO) in four rounds.

The organizers of Tyson Fury’s rematch with Oleksandr Usyk were forced to change the fight poster published this week.

Fans were confused when the left side of the poster depicted Fury as the A-side, despite losing the first fight by split decision. Most felt Usyk was more deserving of it as an undefeated fighter and current four-division heavyweight world champion.

Their concerns appear to have been heard, as a revised poster was released shortly afterwards showing Usyk on the A side and Fury mirrored on the right.

Usyk is the main draw in the heavyweight division after narrowly overtaking Fury on the scorecards in May. Their second battle in Saudi Arabia is set for December 21, and Gypsy King promoter Frank Warren believes the 6-foot-9-inch slugger will enter the fight with modern prospects.

“His mentality is that to win he has to knock him out,” he said Heavenly sports. “So it’s going to be electrifying. He knows what he did wrong. It was a fight of two halves and at one point in the seventh round I really thought he was going to stop him in the next round.

“[Usyk] he staggered back to the corner, came out and caught him with a shot to the nose that seemed to take away all of Tyson’s momentum and concentration.

“[Fury] he believes he knows what to do. He has a great boxing mind and I truly believe he will come out of this as a winner. It was a fierce fight after a split decision by the judges. Many people had different views on who would win, so it will be intriguing to see who learned the most.

The rematch poster also includes details of the highly anticipated Riyad event, which includes a mouthwatering co-main event segment between Ukraine’s Serhiy Bohachuk, who has scored 23 knockouts in 24 wins, and Uzbek fighter Israil Madrimov.

Fans will also have the opportunity to check out the 11th fight of 19-year-old British prodigy Moses Ituama. The heavyweight fighter has won all 10 of his professional fights and will face Demsey McKean, who represents a huge qualitative improvement.

In another heavyweight fight against British interests, “Romford’s Bull” Johnny Fisher will face Dave Allen, who has fought the likes of Dillian Whyte, Luis Ortiz and David Price.