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The Chow-down in Vegas Town?

Jack ShaferPosted Thursday, Sept. 25, 1997, at 3:53 PM ET

Washington writer Patrick Kiger offers this marketing ploy for Don King to get Mike Tyson back on pay-per-view and evade that inconvenient suspension of his boxing license: A Tyson-Marv Albert matchup. Twelve rounds in Vegas, with special rules ... no hands allowed.

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