the ring

"I guess there's a bit of irony," Billam-Smith said in the ring after the bout.

WBO champion Billam-Smith was the first to make his way to the ring at the Venue arena, a stern look on his face as he completed a lap of the canvas with his arm raised.

This week, Mike Tyson returns to the ring after a 19-year layoff.

Per Jeffrey T. Sammons, a history professor at New York University and the author of "Beyond The Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society": “Those Blacks became stand-ins for the authority or the establishment or the so-called ‘man .

It explains why Logan Paul, a boxing novice, was able to enter the ring with a boxer in the conversation as one of the greatest boxers ever.