Mike Tyson announces his return to the boxing ring

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1966, he has been training for some time, as shown in a video he posted on his social media where he looks at the camera and says, "I'm back."

The images show Tyson in good physical condition, with a similar weight to his time as world champion, with fast movements, fierce punches, and a killer look, just as he won the World Boxing Council (WBC) title on November 22, 1986, against Jamaican Trevor Berbick when he was 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days old.

In addition to the video and the final phrase, Tyson wrote in the caption, "Everything is possible when you are clever. Train cleverly. Recover cleverly."

According to what he said after the worldwide impact of the news that he wants to return to the ring, Tyson would do so with charitable objectives, as a way of contributing to the socioeconomic crisis that has been experienced worldwide since last March due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Almost immediately after the video was posted, Australian boxing promoter Brian Amatruda contacted Tyson and offered him a fight against rugby star Sonny Bill Williams, a 34-year-old New Zealander who stands at 1.94 meters tall and weighs 108 kilograms, a two-time world champion with the All Blacks team.

Known as the "Lionel Messi or Roger Federer" of rugby, Williams has also been a professional boxer, and his track record in the ring indicates that between 2009 and 2015, he had 7 fights and won them all.

"There's no one to help you in the ring, so your mental strength has to be impressive," he said at the time. And about the possibility of facing Tyson, he expressed, "If it's for a good cause, I would love to get in the ring with him."

Although it seems that Amatruda offered Tyson $3 million to fight Williams, the former heavyweight world champion rejected that possibility.

"It would be an insult to boxing to fight a rugby player. If I come back, it's to face a real boxer," Tyson reportedly responded, according to the British newspaper Daily Mail.

Someone he would accept to fight is American Evander Holyfield, who is now 57 years old and took Tyson's title in 1996, and in the rematch, a year later, lost a piece of his ear due to a savage bite from the Brooklyn fighter. This incident is even more famous than the two fights.

It is true that there is already a promotional poster on social media for the Tyson-Holyfield fight, scheduled for July 11 in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia.

"Holyfield was a great champion. He had it all: chin, heart, determination, and work ethic. He threw good punches with both hands," Tyson said of him, who lost both memorable fights against the Alabama boxer.

For now, Tyson's return remains a possibility that generates incredible expectations. He is a legend of boxing and sports, who outside the ring has been involved in scandals of domestic violence and his well-known addiction to marijuana.

But he is the youngest ever heavyweight world champion, who made 11 defenses and also held the titles of the World Boxing Association (WBA) and the World Boxing Organization (WBO), who knocked out 8 opponents in less than 1 minute, and whose jab had an impact force equivalent to 750 kilograms.

His return to the sport after retirement is not the first case in professional sports in Latin America. From Muhammad Ali to Earvin 'Magic' Johnson in the United States, a constellation of idols from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean has succumbed to the nostalgia of glory.