Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones and the dangerous lure of nostalgia
A Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones exhibition has been announced. But however uncompetitive it might prove to be this is still no sport for old men, writes John Dennen
I have been having the most vivid dreams. Perhaps it’s been the three months of lockdown. Staying for the most part indoors has lent my days a weird veneer of unreality. So it is hard to tell how much weight to attach to Mike Tyson’s declaration on Thursday that he would fight Roy Jones. But apparently a Mike Tyson vs Roy Jones eight round ‘exhibition’ is going to be a thing.
You can see how digging out two legends from the past to pit them against each other would send the Twitter-sphere into a frenzy. Tyson’s promo video has got over 800,000 views. The unseemly excitement about this event is worrying. This isn’t a comput...