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Tomorrow afternoon the consensus (if not undisputed) heavyweight champion of the world is facing the consensus top American heavyweight but for some reason the excitement level hasn’t reached fever pitch on these shores. The clinical, cautious and glass-jawed Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko has yet to capture the American imagination and highly unlikely that his American challenger Tony “The Tiger” Thompson ever will. Even if his beats the 6:1 odds and fells the Eastern European giant.
We at jabandgrapple.com will be glued to our TV set tomorrow a 4:30 p.m. and dialed …read more

This week hip-hop fans by the legion have downloaded, bought, or found a copy Nas‘ new mixtape, The N—– Tape which is mixed by DJ Green Lantern. The tape includes a fast-paced banger produced by Salaam Remi called “Legendary (Mike Tyson)” which also is featured in the new Mike Tyson documentary which premiered a few months ago at Cannes.
It’s hard to explain to Mike Tyson cynics how my generation could ever love the man with all his tragic flaws, unfulfilled promise, and descent into a sad carnival act. Nas tries to answer these questions in his song.
The “Legendary …read more

In our Boxing Posters for Sale post we promised a look at some of our favorite Mike Tyson posters on sale at Bob Pace Boxing Memorabilia Store. Here’s number four of our favorite four.

Fight: Mike Tyson (39-2-1) vs. Lennox Lewis (49-3)
Date: June 8, 2002
Site: The Pyramid, Memphis, Tennessee
This was it. This fight was the end. He hadn’t been Iron Mike in a while but we all still wanted to see him fight. No one thought he would be competitive. Not against 6′7″ giant Lennox Lewis. In fact maybe for the first time the world wasn’t scared of Mike Tyson they …read more