Zhilei Zhang delivers a devastating third-round knockout to win his WBO interim heavyweight title rematch against Joe Joyce, who suffers back-to-back defeats; in his post-fight interview, Zhang says: “To the audience, I want to ask you a question: Do you want to see me shut Tyson Fury up?”

With pockets of travelling fans waving China flags scattered around the arena, Zhang made his entrance. The 2008 Olympic silver medallist became an even bigger star in his home country after beating Joyce first time around.

It’s been nearly eight months since Zhilei faced his first professional loss against Hrgović. That being said, the seasoned boxer remains diligent in his training as he prepares to mount a comeback while still keeping his fans in suspense about how he would perform fighting Joyce.

The boxing star also admitted to being wasted when he got the tattoo on the same podcast. “I think I was on cocaine at the time,” he said “I am drinking and I was fucking wanted to get a badass tattoo. Some mean shit on my face.” Well, he certainly achieved his goal.

But the Chinese fighter had his shorter and lighter opponent in trouble from early on as Joyce provided a static target for Zhang’s booming left hand and plenty of work for his corner as cuts opened up.

On February 11, 1990, the ground in Tokyo shook so violently that its reverberations—at least metaphorically—were felt in the small upstate town of Catskill, New York, some 6,650 miles away. It was early afternoon in the Tokyo Dome when boxer Mike Tyson, favored to win 42 to 1, was knocked out for the first time in his professional career. The undefeated heavyweight champion, with a 37-0 record, Tyson began his fall from grace at the hands of underdog James “Buster” Douglas, a talented fighter who had been branded as “lacking heart” in his career. Tyson went down at 1 minute, 23 seconds in the tenth round and did not get back up.

In October 2012, Tyson launched the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation. The mission of the Mike Tyson Cares Foundation is to “give kids a fighting chance” with innovative centers that provide for the comprehensive needs of kids from broken homes.

Interview: Zhang thanks all the fans. Then talks about losing to Parker, saying he learned from the loss. Says he knew he just needed to take Wilder’s right hand away, which he did. He gives Wilder credit and then calls for a fight that will get him back to a title fight.

Frank Warren (born 28 February 1952) is an English boxing manager and promoter. Warren and his son George own and run Queensberry Promotions. Warren was also a founder of the British boxing television channel BoxNation which ran for over 11 years from 2012.

In the main event Beterbiev, who has been so impressive amassing title belts and knocking out every professional opponent he has faced so far, goes into the most significant fight of his career, taking on high calibre rival champion Bivol for the undisputed championship.

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In a recent interview on Twitter Space (now known as X), Turki Alalshikh expressed his desire to see Zhang face Bakole in China this December. This proposed bout is seen as a more exciting option compared to a potential rematch between Zhang and Joseph Parker, which has been promoted by Frank Warren. While Parker is a credible opponent, having previously defeated Zhang, many fans and analysts found their first fight to be lackluster, and there is little enthusiasm for a rematch.

The essence of boxing is violence, but few fighters have refined it — have embodied it — quite as effectively as Mr. Tyson has; he sometimes speaks to Mr. Toback’s camera about the murderous clarity he took into the ring with him. He says he used to imagine his fists smashing through his opponent’s faces and out the backs of their heads. The pure terror in Mr. Berbick’s eyes (and in those of most division championships boxing of the other fighters Mr. Tyson met during his rapid rise and brief reign) suggests that he might well have been capable of wreaking that kind of damage.

7:50 p.m. ET/ 0:50 p.m. GMT: It’s been a long night and a very entertaining one. Now, it’s the main event. Former WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder is looking to take down Chinese giant Zhilei Zhang. We switch back to round-by-round coverage. Will we need it?

According to the book Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson, Tyson admitted that he punched Givens and stated, “that was the best punch I’ve ever thrown in my entire life.” Tyson claimed that the book was “filled with inaccuracies.” Tyson and Givens had no children, but she reported having had a miscarriage; Tyson claimed that she was never pregnant and only used that to get him to marry her. During their marriage, the couple lived in a mansion in Bernardsville, New Jersey.

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