He was once known as "The Baddest Man on The Planet". On Saturday, he's coming back to the 518 as the host, if you will, of an MMA card at the Empire State Plaza.
"He", you see, if former boxing champ and part-time actor Mike Tyson, and the event is billed as "Mike Tyson's Fight Night", presented by Cage Wars, which gets underway at 4 pm Saturday afternoon.
File photo courtesy Associated Press, via Albany Times-Union.
It seems inevitable, doesn't it? Tyson has done wrestling (WWE, AEW), so why not lend his name to a MMA card that probably won't get much in the way of television coverage otherwise?
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Writing in the Times-Union today, WNYT's Rodger Wyland believes that Maple Hill grad Gavin Van Kempen, drafted by St. Louis Tuesday, would be better served declining the Cardinals to play college ball at West Virginia. The only reason Van Kempen didn't get drafted until the final round was because of 1) a nationwide draft pool, and 2) Maple Hill being considered a small school in comparison to Troy, Ballston Spa, Amsterdam, et al. Wyland believes Van Kempen will spend three years with the Mountaineers before he likely is drafted again.
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