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YouTuber Jake Paul can run but he cannot hide from almighty Iron Mike Tyson, writes JEFF POWELL Mike Tyson is set for his first professional bout in almost two decades Few are giving him much chance against Paul, but he cannot be written off Paul may look to run early on, but 'Iron Mike' will aim to hunt him down By JEFF POWELL Published: 22:30, 14 November 2024 | Updated: 23:22, 14 November 2024 e-mail 1 View comments Two earthquakes hit Tokyo on the 11th day of February 1990 when James Buster Douglas turned Mike Tyson and the world on its head. Late into the night of that seismic 42-1 upset a lesser tremor shook the city. Tyson’s promoter Don King was holding court in the penthouse suite of a skyscraper hotel, trying to invalidate the knockout which had inflicted the first defeat of Iron Mike’s career and the loss of his undisputed world heavyweight title on the grounds Douglas had been saved by a long count earlier in the fight.

He would lose the appeal even though the tapes proved him right. As usual with King, the world champion gourmand, all the tables were groaning with food, western and oriental. As the room shook, the veritable banquet slithered all over the carpet and our shoes.



Two doors along the corridor Tyson came spilling out of his bedroom accompanied by three young beauties whom we could only assume had been treating him to the delights of the finest Japanese tea. On Friday night, 34 years later and half way around the world in the Lone Star State of Texa.

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