Roy Jones Vs Mike Tyson

  • The California State Athletic Commission will not assign any of its judges to score the Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. exhibition boxing bout.
  • The two former champions and boxing greats will face off on November 28, 2020 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
  • Tyson remains as the betting favorite at -200 while Jones is currently listed at +160.

More details have emerged from the Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones Jr. boxing bout later this month.

You should know by now that Tyson and Jones will fight in an eight-round exhibition boxing bout which will have two-minute rounds and where the fighters will be required to wear 12-ounce gloves. The bout will be on November 28, 2020 at the Stales Center in Los Angeles.

Don’t Expect Too Much

But don’t expect too much from Tyson’s return bout. Sure, the fight was sanctioned by the California State Athletic Commission but it’s still an exhibition bout and CSAC executive director said last month that extensive safety precautions will be taken and he alluded that Tyson and Jones wouldn’t be allowed to “significantly hurt each other” as part of the fight agreement.

Likewise, it was also learned last Friday that as part of the deal, the bout will not be scored by any of the CSAC’s judges nor will the commission announce a winner after the “fight”. Instead, the WBC will be in charge of the scoring of the bout. The organization has named former boxing world champions Christy Martin, Vinny Pazienza, and Chad Dawson as the judges for the Tyson vs Jones bout and the three will score the fight remotely.

The WBC previously mentioned that each round will be scored and announced to the public with each scoring criteria taking into consideration. At the end of the bout, the WBC will present a “Frontline Battle Belt” with a Black Lives Matter inscription and it will be presented to the “winner” after the 8-round bout.

Latest Betting Odds

For whatever it’s worth, Iron Mike is still the betting favorite with less than 10 days to go before this exhibition boxing bout. But after opening at -350 at BetOnline last July when the betting lines for the fight were first revealed, Tyson’s odds to beat Jones is now at -200. Meanwhile, Jones’ plus money has shortened from the opening odds of +275 to +160 as of 11/21/20.

In the other high-profile bout of the fight card, former NBA star Nate Robinson will take on YouTube star Jake Paul. Paul is four inches taller than Robinson but there is no doubt that the latter is the better athlete. Now this one’s interesting because sportsbooks still have Paul as the -180 betting favorite to beat Robinson who is currently listed at +150. These are no fighters but Nate’s a high-level athlete. Plus he didn’t look to bad in a short sparring video that was released last July:

Tyson vs Jones is the main draw of this fight card but when it comes to the betting side of things, there could better value in the Jake Paul vs Nate Robinson bout. Nothing against Jake Paul here but Nate is cut differently from Jake Paul. Don’t tell Nate Robinson that size matters. The guy made a career playing in the land of giants. Sure, boxing and basketball are two entirely different sports. But so is boxing and vlogging.

The Mike Tyson Comeback

The COVID-19 pandemic literally shut down sports last March and it was really a downer. But one of the things that kept the fire burning, at least in the sport of boxing, were the rumors of Mike Tyson coming back to the sport. Videos of Tyson sparring spread like wildfire and soon, Tyson announced that he would be returning to the ring.

At first, Tyson was offered a reported $20M by the Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship to join their fold but that didn’t materialize. An exhibition boxing fight with Roy Jones Jr. was soon born and the two boxing greats were initially penciled to meet in an exhibition boxing bout on September 12th. The bout was later postponed because Tyson reportedly wanted to fight in front of a live audience and they wanted to buy more time to make that happen.

But the pandemic hasn’t slowed down and has spiked in several areas in the United States. With precious time ticking, the organizers finally decided to go with the November 28th date without fans and with pay-per-view as the sole revenue generator for the event. Whether that works or not is the problem of the promoters. Fight fans are excited to see the baddest man on the planet put on his boxing gloves again, real fight or not.

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Shane turned a childhood love of the NBA into a successful writing career as he’s been covering basketball and other sports online since high school. Acedera branched out into sports betting over a decade ago and has been a reliable contributor to TheSportsGeek for the last five years. Shane loves to talk sports whether it’s with other enthusiasts or with his wife and three dogs.

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