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The 44-year-old US veteran will fight 41-year-old American Lou Savarese in a 10-round affair 30 June 2007 in El Paso, Texas, seeking the fourth victory in a row since making a comeback after being banished by New York officials following a loss. AFP PHOTO/FILES/JEFF HAYNES (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images) Las Vegas, UNITED STATES: (FILES): This 28 June 1997 file photo shows referee Lane Mills (L) stepping in as Evander Holyfield (R) reacts after Mike Tyson (C) bit his ear in the third round of their WBA Heavyweight Championship Fight at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, NV. A decade after his infamous "Bite Fight" victory over Mike, Holyfield still dreams of retaking boxing's heavyweight throne and considers most reigning champions "beatable". The 44-year-old US veteran will fight 41-year-old American Lou Savarese in a 10-round affair 30 June 2007 in El Paso, Texas, seeking the fourth victory in a row since making a comeback after being banished by New York officials following a loss. AFP PHOTO/FILES/JEFF HAYNES (Photo credit should read JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images)AFP/Getty Images—2007 AFP by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) Jun 29, 2012 8:04 PM UTC Back in 1997, when you witnessed [Mike Tyson](http://topics.time.com/mike-tyson/) [bite off a chunk ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0YO9L5qgrs)of Evander Holyfield’s ear in a heavyweight mega-fight, you always knew that 15 years later, the fighters would mark the anniversary of this horrible event by making jokes about it on something called Twitter. On June 28, 1997, Tyson disgraced himself — and his sport — on that crazy Saturday night in [Las Vegas](http://topics.time.com/las-vegas/). Do you remember where you were at that moment? I was a summer intern at WFAN, the New York sports radio station. A bunch of us were watching the fight on a studio TV with overnight host Tony Paige, a boxing expert, who was about to go on the air. I’ll never forget Paige jumping around the basement studio, apoplectic, when Tyson went cannibalistic. Paige had seen a lot of fights, and this was like nothing he’d ever seen. As Steve Wulf [wrote ](http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,986647-1,00.html)in TIME, in a story headlined “Heavyweight Chomp” --- > “” --- SI.com has posted an engaging oral history of the whole affair, [here](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/the%5Fbonus/06/28/tyson-holyfield-oral-history/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp%5Ft12%5Fa0). As you enjoy your summer barbeques this weekend and into the 4th of July, rest easy, knowing that it seems like Tyson, whose one-man show is headed for [Broadway](http://entertainment.time.com/2012/06/19/mike-tyson-bringing-his-truth-to-broadway/), and Holyfield have made amends. You see, Holyfield had a barbeque sauce brand, Real Deal BBQ Sauce. And on Friday morning, @holyfield, which has 32,000 followers, tweeted My will make u wanna take a bite out of someone's ear! Ask [@MikeTyson](https://twitter.com/MikeTyson?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) \- Luv ya bro! — Evander Holyfield (@holyfield) [June 29, 2012](https://twitter.com/holyfield/status/218673662688104449?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) Well, that missive is a brilliant bit of marketing on the ex-champ’s part, because Tyson has an exponentially larger Twitter following than his once-bitten former opponent – almost 2.3 million strong – and he fired back with: .[@holyfield](https://twitter.com/holyfield?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw)'s ear would've been much better with his new BBQ sauce. check it out [#TGIF](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TGIF?src=hash&ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) — Mike Tyson (@MikeTyson) [June 29, 2012](https://twitter.com/MikeTyson/status/218744407669747712?ref%5Fsrc=twsrc%5Etfw) A little food for thought from the boxing ring, I guess. Thanks, Twitter, for uniting Tyson and Holyfield on the 15th-year anniversary of their fight, just like we always pictured it. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7159296/fifteens-year-after-bite-fight-tyson-and-holyfield-enjoy-twitter-bromance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7159296/fifteens-year-after-bite-fight-tyson-and-holyfield-enjoy-twitter-bromance/"},"headline":"Fifteen Years After 'Bite Fight,' Tyson and Holyfield Enjoy Twitter Bromance","datePublished":"2012-06-29T20:04:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-25T05:32:58.994Z","description":"Back in 1997, when you witnessed Mike Tyson bite off a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in a heavyweight mega-fight, you always knew that 15...","url":"https://time.com/archive/7159296/fifteens-year-after-bite-fight-tyson-and-holyfield-enjoy-twitter-bromance/","keywords":["twitter","Boxing"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01d2f187465fa472/698a98e318689215496cedd2/74947170.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt01d2f187465fa472/698a98e318689215496cedd2/74947170.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"(FILES): This 28 June 1997 file photo sh","caption":"(FILES): This 28 June 1997 file photo sh","creditText":"AFP/Getty Images—2007 AFP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7159296/fifteens-year-after-bite-fight-tyson-and-holyfield-enjoy-twitter-bromance/","name":"Fifteen Years After 'Bite Fight,' Tyson and Holyfield Enjoy Twitter Bromance"}}]}] ```