Bivol lands a right off a down parry. He’s marching Zinad around the ring now. Zinad tries to get some respect but Bivol parries. Bivol is controlling this fight with his footwork now, maintaining range, staying outside until he wants. Zinad eats a sharp left when he gets caught napping again. Lack of concentration can kill.
The lawsuit drew attention to issues of intellectual property rights and the use of tattoos for commercial purposes. Although the case was eventually settled out of court, it raised important questions about the rights of tattoo artists and their work.
As Tyson and Don King lined up the long-awaited fight with Holyfield, Tyson vacated the WBC belt on Sept. 25 as part of an agreement to avoid facing then-WBC No. 1 mandatory challenger Lennox Lewis. Lewis had initially stepped aside to allow Seldon to fight Tyson for the title box in yahoo.com exchange for $4 million and the next shot at the belt, but by May, it became clear that the fight had little chance of happening. According to King, Lewis’ contract with HBO essentially forbade him from appearing on Showtime, where Tyson was under contract.
“I have a morphine drip, and I had my cocaine, and I had my Cialis, I had my marijuana, I had the Hennessy,” Tyson said. “I started beating them. I was in a dark place. There was a purpose, though, because I didn’t want to give them any more of my soul.”
For amateur boxing, the Amateur Boxing Association of England set rules for the length of a match when it was formed in 1880. Initially there were three rounds of 3 minutes with a break of 1 minute between them. Changes were made in 1926 and 1997 and most recently, in 2000, the International Boxing Association made it four rounds of two minutes each.
Of course tattoos can be copyrighted. I don’t think there is any reasonable dispute about that. They are not copyrighting Mr. Tyson’s face, or restricting Mr. Tyson’s use of his own face, as the defendant argues, or saying that someone who has a tattoo can’t remove the tattoo or change it, but the tattoo itself and the design itself can be copyrighted, and I think it’s entirely consistent with the copyright law.
Some argue that the Mao tattoo is also a symbol of Tyson’s own triumph over adversity. Throughout his life, Tyson has faced numerous setbacks, including legal troubles, financial difficulties, and personal struggles. Yet, he has managed to rise above them, reclaim his life, and develop a successful career as an entertainer, actor, and entrepreneur.
In 2015, Zhang was signed to Roc Nation Sports, which Dino Duva also joined as an employee and boxing executive. Roc Nation, a music promoter, entered the boxing market in August 2014 with money but no plan. David Itskowitch, Roc Nation’s founding chief operating officer of boxing, abruptly resigned in July 2016 and Duva’s influence grew after. Roc Nation’s boxing division was in quick decline from 2018, all but ceased working in 2019 and closed down in 2020.
As an amateur, he was highly regarded by American promoters by 2009 after winning a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics and bronze medals at the 2007 and 2009 World Championships. His career stalled from 2009 to 2019, however, by a combination of his belated release from the Chinese boxing authorities to turn professional, the managerial and legal fiasco of two successive fringe promotional companies, and his visa problems. He could not line up high-profile matches until he signed Matchroom Sport in 2020 at 37 years of age. Zhang considered his fight with Jerry Forrest in 2021 to be the landmark moment of his career until that point.
By 1990, Tyson seemed to have lost direction, and his personal life was in disarray amidst reports of less vigorous training prior to the Buster Douglas match. In a fight on February 11, 1990, he lost the undisputed championship to Douglas in Tokyo. Tyson was a huge betting favorite; indeed, the Mirage, the only casino to put out odds for the fight, made Tyson a 42/1 favorite. Tyson failed to find a way past Douglas’s quick jab that had a 12-inch (30 cm) reach advantage over his own. Tyson did catch Douglas with an uppercut in the eighth round and knocked him to the floor, but Douglas recovered sufficiently to hand Tyson a heavy beating in the subsequent two rounds. After the fight, the Tyson camp would complain that the count was slow and that Douglas had taken longer than ten seconds to get back on his feet. Just 35 seconds into the tenth round, Douglas unleashed a brutal uppercut, followed by a four-punch combination of hooks that knocked Tyson down for the first time in his career. He was counted out by referee Octavio Meyran.
It made no sense to fight Douglas. That was a night of guaranteed pain. That didn’t stop Bill, of course. A factory worker by day, he spent nights either fighting or pounding a spare heavy bag in the family’s basement. Over 13 years he scored 41 wins, some so brutal his son could barely stand to watch, according to author Joe Layden in The Last Great Fight: