"Bill Corrigan, the boxer/promoter/dreamer who has spent the better part of the past year attempting to put together a Mike Tyson fight ? with himself as the opponent ? appears close to pulling it off.
Corrigan said Iron Mike, through Tyson's personal manager, Craig Jones, signed a "memorandum of agreement" last week to fight Corrigan and participate in a reality TV series chronicling the fighters' training leading up to the bout.
"We pretty much have a done deal here," Corrigan said. "It's exciting."
It's also a bit hard to believe, but apparently it's legit.
Corrigan, a local entrepreneur who moved to the Alamo City a couple of years ago from Minnesota, is a former boxer who has gone up against the likes of Vladimir Klitschko, David Izon, Francois Botha, Bruce Seldon, Mike Weaver and David Tua.
But at 41 and a good 80 pounds above his fighting weight, Corrigan hasn't fought in five years. Plus, his record is a less-than-glittering 11-14-1, with all of the losses coming by knockout.
That apparently did nothing to discourage a California-based television production company, which is prepared to underwrite the series and pay Tyson $2.5 million.
Clinton Walker, CEO of Xess Entertainment Group, confirmed that a deal had been reached with Tyson's camp and that the company is busy shopping the series to the cable television networks.
Kann mir das einer übersetzen? Will dieser Typ gegen Tyson boxen , oder wie?