Fox Lands Tyson Fight

Promoter Don King landed the first big blow in the heavyweight conflict over Nov. 4 - when Mike Tyson and Buster Mathis Jr. goes head-to-head against Riddick Bowe and Evander Holyfield at rival Las Vegas casinos.

According to a boxing source, King has reached a deal for an undisclosed sum with Rupert Murdoch’s Fox Network to show Tyson vs. Mathis at the MGM Grand on Fox affiliates throughout the country. There will be no charge to view the non-title bout.

This, in effect, would undermine plans by Time-Warner, the parent company of HBO, to sell the Bowe-Holyfield III bout, scheduled at Caesars Palace, on pay-per-view for an estimated $40.

Peter McNeeley will fight for the first time since his controversial disqualification against Mike Tyson when he opposes Mike Dixon on Oct. 27 at the new Fleet Center in Boston.

Former super featherweight champion Bobby Chacon has been arrested on charges of selling cocaine.

Chacon, 43, was arrested Tuesday at his Pacoima, Calif., home by undercover police officers.