The talk in boxing
Evander Holyfield is ready to risk his ears in a third fight with Mike Tyson, but only if boxing's most controversial character brings a world title to the ring.
Talk's sources in the US reveal that the 41-year-old Holyfield, is back with promoter Don King. Now King is working to get Tyson's signature on a contract.
Tyson was at Madison Square Garden on Saturday - to see Chris Byrd retain the IBF belt and John Ruiz remain WBA champion - where he was told by King: "You can change the globe, baby! Let's see if we can reclaim the glory of yesteryear."
But before any bout with Holyfield, Tyson is due to make his K-1 fighting debut which combines elements of kickboxing, karate and taekwando. No opponent has been named but the bout is pencilled in for late July in the US.
Sprott's winning formula
Michael Sprott is applying sports science to the sweet science in an attempt to retain his British and Commonwealth heavyweight titles. Sprott, the former removals man who plans to pack away the challenge of unbeaten Matt Skelton in Reading on Saturday, has enlisted respected sports scientist and former footballer Karl Halabi to help him get in top condition. Halabi is also working with international table tennis player Jo Parker.
Kevin's not a Francophile
London featherweight prospect Kevin Mitchell, who appears on the undercard to the British heavyweight title fight at Reading's Rivermead Sports Centre, intends to make Eric Patrac pay for a defeat inflicted by one of Patrac's French compatriots.
Big-hitting Mitchell is still bitter about losing to Jean Arici three years ago in an England junior international bout. The former ABA champion told Talk: "I battered this French kid, Arici, in the first round and was on the verge of stopping him.
"But he survived to the end of the round and because I hadn't trained properly - I took the fight at short notice - I lost the next two. Now I'm gunning for revenge."
Farewell to Jon Robinson
The Talk is saddened to report the death of 61-year-old Jon Robinson, the former Hackney Gazette boxing reporter who went on to found the British-based World Boxing Union (WBU) sanctioning body.
Robinson was a larger-than-life character. He weighed more than three Ricky Hattons, the WBU's 10-stone light-welterweight champion.
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