{"id":277057,"date":"2020-11-29T07:33:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=277057"},"modified":"2020-11-29T07:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T12:33:30","slug":"mike-tyson-roy-jones-exhibition-bout-ends-in-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/11\/29\/mike-tyson-roy-jones-exhibition-bout-ends-in-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson, Roy Jones exhibition bout ends in draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233872\" style=\"width: 3240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233872\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3240\" height=\"2160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017.jpg 3240w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3240px-MikeTysonSDCC2017-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3240px) 100vw, 3240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Mike Tyson signing autographs while promoting Mike Tyson Mysteries during the 2017 Comic-Con International at the San Diego Convention Center. (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=61532259\">Photo By Nehrams2020 &#8211; Own work\/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>ANKARA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 An exhibition match between legendary heavyweight Mike Tyson and aging pugilist Roy Jones was ruled a draw by the World Boxing Council.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson, 54, returned to the ring late Saturday for the first time in 15 years at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the bout of eight two-minute rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling back the years, the two former world champions tried not to deliver any blows that would risk serious injury to the other.<\/p>\n<p>After the bout, Tyson asked for a rematch against Jones, 51.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997 Tyson was suspended from boxing after he bit off part of Evander Holyfield&#8217;s ear in a match, but a court later restored his ring privileges.<\/p>\n<p>Jones, whose last fight was two years ago, currently holds a record of 66 wins and nine defeats.\u00a0<em><strong>(Anadolu)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA\u00a0\u2013 An exhibition match between legendary heavyweight Mike Tyson and aging pugilist Roy Jones was ruled a draw by the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":233872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277059,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277057\/revisions\/277059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}