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Mike Tyson, even at 58 years old, continues to change the game

Related Topics: Mike Tyson, Mitch Green, Jake Paul

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Having covered Mike Tyson since his most famously unsanctioned bout -- a predawn TKO of Mitch "Blood" Green at an after-hours clothing boutique in Harlem, New York, on Aug. 23, 1988 -- and having spent the past three-plus years anatomizing his ascent as a biographer, I've been getting a lot of calls, all posing the same basic question:

"Is this thing real?"

It's real enough, what a spokesperson from the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation assures me is "a professional, sanctioned bout" with Jake Paul, live from AT&T Stadium, Friday on Netflix.