All that was missing were a few
elephants, a trapeze and two more rings.
Everything else about the start of Mike Tyson's return to boxing
felt like a circus.
The former heavyweight champion and one-time baddest man alive
opened his ``World Tour'' on Friday night with a ho-hum performance
in a four-round exhibition against Corey ``T-Rex'' Sanders, a former
sparring partner who outweighed Tyson by 50 pounds.
Tyson, gasping for air during each of the 2{-minute rounds,
floored Sanders early in the first round and then had to hold up his
opponent moments later after staggering him with a flurry of
punches.
``It was fun, that's my first time boxing since my last fight,''
said Tyson, who retired last year after quitting after six rounds in
a loss to Kevin McBride. ``I didn't know how tough it would be.''
© The Canadian Press, 2007
