MIKE TYSON will give Roy Jones Jr a pounding if he gets close enough to give Saturday’s pay-per-view buyers bang for their buck.
The ring legends, with the combined age of 105, will fight on Saturday night over eight two minute rounds, after Tyson ended 15 years of high-living retirement.
Iron Mike, 54, was a career heavyweight who destroyed 18st giants with his blistering power, while Jones’ best performances came down at super-middleweight.
The veteran pair clash this weekend and have already boasted of breaking US pre-fight records, with BT Sport charging £19.95 for the exhibition bout.
And British fight icon Frank Bruno, who was brutalised by Tyson in his final 1996 fight, says the bigger man will make bank, if he can pin down the 51-year-old speedster.
Bruno said: “It is all about the Benjamin Franklins for those two.It’s all about the money.
“Roy Jones Jr was a great fighter, he went through so many weights.
“I don’t see the fight going that long because Jones Jr has the speed he might be able to slow Mike down and confuse him.
“But Mike has the power and if he hits Jones, who started off naturally as a middleweight, then a good big man always beats a big little man.”
Lennox Lewis, who slayed the Baddest Man on the Planet in 2002 after some infamously sinister build-up, expects the packed rule book to fly out of the window at the first bell.
The concerned California State Commission have puffed up the gloves to 12oz, axed judges and attempted to ‘ban’ knockouts in a bid to avoid naming a winner.
But Earth’s last undisputed heavyweight ruler says age will not have mellowed Tyson once he slides between the ropes.
He said: “Roy Jones was one of the quickest fighters out there, he is not going to be easy to hit.
“Roy will not want to get hit and I am sure it will be a big ring.
“If Mike can catch up with him I am sure it will become a good fight.
“If Roy hits Mike a couple of times and runs away then Mike won’t happily accept it’s an exhibition, he will want to hunt him down and hit him back.”
