Mike Tyson denied historic super fight against one of amateur boxing's greatest champions
“Tyson vs Holyfield I was just before I left [for Cuba]. He’d lost the title but everyone thought, ‘He’ll win it back’. It wasn’t hard to sell Frank Warren on the idea. Frank’s a mischief maker himself, and also has a keen sense of the history of boxing. He’d just gone into that doomed partnership with Don King, so had access to Tyson. There wasn’t the same appeal [around Lewis] at that point.
“I got closer to the boxing authorities; invited to their training camp, and got to know the boxers quite well,” Duncan, the writer of , recalls. “I eventually got to meet Felix Savon. He’d been given a car as reward for being an Olympic boxer, but it didn’t have a starter motor. His garage was on a hill, so he could do a rolling start from his own house, but it was a problem if he stopped somewhere.“He clicked his fingers, and 20 kids emerged out of the bushes and gave him a jump start.
“[Eventually] I was in a position where I could have asked that question, but everything had changed with Tyson [who was disqualified in the rematch with Holyfield, and banned], and with Frank [because of the separation with King]. There wasn’t anyone on whose behalf I was going to ask. It would have been a fragile conversation.“[It’d have paid Savon] eight figures. It would have been a global fight that even people who aren’t interested in boxing would take a look at.
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