Evander Holyfield has shut down the prospect of a trilogy fight with Mike Tyson just over a year after the pair's teams last negotiated.
Both Tyson and Holyfield are in their 50s, and came out of their athletic and pay-per-view drawing primes decades ago. But they made their returns to the ring within a year of one another under the Triller banner during the coronavirus pandemic, with Tyson's comeback in particular attracting a massive audience in November 2020.
Tyson drew with Roy Jones Jr in an exhibition bout behind closed doors before Holyfield stepped in at short notice to face Vitor Belfort when Oscar de la Hoya pulled out of their fight after being hospitalised with coronavirus. But that comeback was much less successful, with a fraction of the audience buying the PPV and Holyfield getting knocked out within a round.
