Mike Tyson, the former notorious heavyweight champion, at the age of 54, only dared to return to a friendly match with his peers, but another 50-year-old fighter was ready to fight the youth.
By 2020 sports fans and teams, clubs as well as athletes in many different sports suffer as a series of tournaments have to be postponed or canceled due to the Covid-19 epidemic. A lot of news is somewhat negative, but the sports world still has some good news, in which Mike Tyson’s announcement of his return to play at the age of 54, has attracted the attention of fans.
Once holding the heavyweight championship at the age of 20, up to now, steel puncher Mike Tyson is still considered one of the most feared and greatest heavy boxing fighters. Back at the age of 54, Tyson did not play professionally, but was friendly with boxers his age.
Recently, Chris Byrd, another American boxer, has turned 50 but still wants to return to play professionally to compete for the middleweight title. This means that boxers nicknamed “Fire Speed” will have to fight opponents dozens of years younger, if they want to get a middleweight belt.
Chris Byrd retired from Boxing in 2009, after knocking out Matthias Sandow (Germany) in the fourth round. 11 years after the hanging gloves day of the boxer who once held the heavy IBF belt (81–91 kg) in the world is determined to return to compete for the middleweight belt (69–75 kg) in the world.
During his 16 years of professional play (1993 to 2009), Byrd, 1m83 tall only competed in the heavyweight, and now at the age of 50 he wants a belt at a lighter weight of about 15 kg.
If you want to win the world belts in the middle class, the 50-year-old boxer will have to face the following champions: Canelo Alvarez (30 years old, holds the WBA belt), Gennady Golovkin (38 years old, IBF), Demetrius Andrade ( 32 years old, WBO) and Jermall Charlo (30 years old, WBC). They are all class champions, they are 10 to 20 years inferior to Byrd’s “Fire Speed”.
