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- Sakakibara and Tyson first met in April 2006 in China.
- There wasn't much interest in him fighting MMA in Japan b/c he was just a boxer and he was an ex-con.
- "WORLD TOUR"
- Sakakibara's plan was to take Tyson on a world tour full of boxing matches, first with Cro Cop and eventually with Fedor. The locations were planned for Russia, China and Europe.
- Tyson was not licensed in America at the time (NSAC suspended him) but they expected to eventually be able to have boxing matches featuring Tyson in Japan and America
- The first event would be early in 2007 but eventually Tyson stopped cooperating
- Sakakibara and Tyson first met in April 2006 in China.
- There wasn't much interest in him fighting MMA in Japan b/c he was just a boxer and he was an ex-con.
- "WORLD TOUR"
- Sakakibara's plan was to take Tyson on a world tour full of boxing matches, first with Cro Cop and eventually with Fedor. The locations were planned for Russia, China and Europe.
- Tyson was not licensed in America at the time (NSAC suspended him) but they expected to eventually be able to have boxing matches featuring Tyson in Japan and America
- The first event would be early in 2007 but eventually Tyson stopped cooperating
There is a problem here - there is a huge disparity between dreamlike and reckless. At the PRIDE presser in Las Vegas of that year, Mike Tyson showed up under the notion of being a PRIDE fighter that DSE was happy to have joined the organization. After that, the plan stopped. Tyson was nowhere to be found.
Questions were raised after the press conference and during the event, but DSE executives were reluctant to give an honest answer. DSE said no matter how hard they tried to get Tyson on board, Tyson rejected all offers.
As for Mike Tyson, these events became a common occurrence. From Bob Sapp calling out Mike Tyson at a K-1 event, when Tyson was on his way to the event from his hotel room, Tyson decided "I don't want to go."
One thing for certain, DSE did have an official contract with Mike Tyson. If there were a breach of this contract, Tyson would be monetary obliged to compensate DSE accordingly. As with many Tyson deals, that meant nothing.
One DSE employee stated that Tyson had incurred enormous debts from doing things such as this and that DSE was pretty much helpless in this regard. DSE's position was that Tyson had already incurred millions in debt that he didn't care about a measly few hundred thousand dollars.
The Tyson story, after all of this, became a fairy tale. Nothing was every brought of it again.
Questions were raised after the press conference and during the event, but DSE executives were reluctant to give an honest answer. DSE said no matter how hard they tried to get Tyson on board, Tyson rejected all offers.
As for Mike Tyson, these events became a common occurrence. From Bob Sapp calling out Mike Tyson at a K-1 event, when Tyson was on his way to the event from his hotel room, Tyson decided "I don't want to go."
One thing for certain, DSE did have an official contract with Mike Tyson. If there were a breach of this contract, Tyson would be monetary obliged to compensate DSE accordingly. As with many Tyson deals, that meant nothing.
One DSE employee stated that Tyson had incurred enormous debts from doing things such as this and that DSE was pretty much helpless in this regard. DSE's position was that Tyson had already incurred millions in debt that he didn't care about a measly few hundred thousand dollars.
The Tyson story, after all of this, became a fairy tale. Nothing was every brought of it again.
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