{"id":125176,"date":"2021-08-19T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=125176"},"modified":"2021-08-19T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T18:47:47","slug":"wwe-sought-out-mike-tyson-for-summerslam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/08\/19\/wwe-sought-out-mike-tyson-for-summerslam\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE sought out Mike Tyson for SummerSlam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2911353340\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>WWE attempted to bring in WWE Celebrity Hall of Famer and heavyweight boxing legend Mike Tyson for this Saturday&#8217;s <em>SummerSlam<\/em> event, <a href=\"https:\/\/pwinsider.com\/article\/149915\/wwe-tries-to-get-big-name-for-summerslam-opening.html?p=1\">Mike Johnson reported for PWInsider.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson noted that the plan was for Tyson to do a voiceover for the opening video package centered on the Universal Championship match between defending champion Roman Reigns and challenger John Cena.<\/p>\n<p>The attempt to lock in Tyson was unsuccessful, and Johnson reported there is no word on who will be the voiceover for Saturday&#8217;s event.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson&#8217;s last appearance in professional wrestling was for AEW. 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Johnson noted that the plan was for Tyson to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/08\/19\/wwe-sought-out-mike-tyson-for-summerslam\/\" title=\"WWE sought out Mike Tyson for SummerSlam\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":98281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[2883,142,71],"class_list":["post-125176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-mike-tyson","tag-summerslam","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2020\/05\/Screen-Shot-2020-05-31-at-12.27.05-AM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125181,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125176\/revisions\/125181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}