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With ongoing allegations of 'sportswashing' directed at the nation added to the mix, BBC Sport explores the impact of the Saudi boxing takeover and what it means for the fight game closer to home.

Barclays Center seems eager to have it after sitting out the fight game since hosting Deontay Wilder’s first-round knockout of Robert Helenius in October 2022.

Tyson once hosted “ Mike Tyson’s New Fight Game: The PFL,” for the company and will present three winners with the Champion of Champions belt that includes a removable ring.

“I left the list at Arnold’s. Oh, Joey, my parents don’t know...what I do at Arnold’s, and that I’m sponsoring you. Not yet, that is. I’ll tell them, of course, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. I can’t figure out a good way to tell them how everything happened and they might not understand my involvement in, well, the fight game.”

Swearinger wouldn’t be the first former NFL player to try his hand at the sport — Frank Gore, Adrian Peterson and Le’Veon Bell are among them — but the defensive back maintained he was serious about the fight game.