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Sunday Stats: Mike Tyson Playing Handball

Handball used to be the cross-training sport of choice for world famous boxers… By Paul Fitzpatrick

WPH Press

The WPH has proudly presented the WPH Sunday Stats since the start of 2020, highlighting the Race 4 Eight’s and Icebreaker’s greatest champions and stats, longest winning streaks, greatest accomplishments, tournament directors, nicknames, obscure stats, handball’s origins and history, handball champions featured in national publications, and so much more.

This Sunday we’ll revisit what is widely regarded as the most famous handball picture in history – then heavyweight champion Mike Tyson playing handball with his manager and all-time great Jimmy Jacobs in Las Vegas in 1987.

Handball used to be the cross-training sport of choice for world famous boxers… By Paul Fitzpatrick

“It was a bit of fun, a PR shot for Handball Magazine,” stated Steve Lott, who worked for Jimmy Jacobs and was a friend of Tyson. “There was a club there called the Sporting House. I said to Mike, ‘I’d like to shoot some shots of you and Jim, just tossing the ball up in front of each other, just for Handball Magazine. He said ‘Great, let’s go’. “So I brought them down, they put on the handball shirts and the gloves and threw the ball up a few times for two minutes, and, click click click, I took some photos.”

Read Handball used to be the cross-training sport of choice for world famous boxers… By Paul Fitzpatrick HERE

David Fink

WPH Historian

DV: David Vincent formed the World Players of Handball in 2005 and ushered live handball viewing into our living rooms for the first time. Since its inception, the World Players of Handball has broadcast over 1,500 matches live. Dave Vincent serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for virtually all matches, combining his unique perspective and personality with a lifetime of handball experience. DV brings 25 years of broadcast radio experience (in Oregon and California) to World Players of Handball & ESPN broadcasts and provides professionalism and wit to the amazing game of handball. DV also serves as the Executive Director of the World Player of Handball at the WPH headquarters in Tucson, AZ, working daily to grow the game of handball through innovation.
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