Facing off the same night, Katie Taylor is fighting Amanda Serrano, who both sold out Madison Square Garden just two years ago.
Former undisputed world heavyweight champion boxer Mike Tyson returns to the spotlight, promoting the heavyweight matchup with Jake Paul later this summer. "He’s an upcoming guy on the scene and I like shaking the sports world to its core, and I’m doing it now," Tyson expressed at the press conference. "It’s just something I want to do."Tyson, with an overall record of 50-6 – including 44 knockouts – was the youngest heavyweight championship boxer at 20.
Facing off the same night, Olympic gold medalist and super lightweight world champion Katie Taylor is fighting Amanda Serrano, who both sold out Madison Square Garden just two years ago. "The last time me and Amanda fought it was an epic fight, an iconic fight," Taylor said. "It was in front of 20,000 people in Madison Square Garden. I felt like the whole of Puerto Rico and Ireland were there that night. We get to do it again in front of 400,000 people.
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