The eight-round match, pitting Tyson against 51-year-old boxing champion Roy Jones Jr, will take place on September 12 starting at 9pm (September 13, 11am AEST).

Tyson is the former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion with a record of 50 wins, six losses, and two no contests.

His most recent official fight was on June 11, 2005, against Irish-born heavyweight Kevin McBride, who defeated Tyson in a TKO.

From 1992-95, Tyson served three years of a six-year term in an Indiana prison after being convicted of rape.

The Tyson-Jones fight is the first event of a series produced under Mike Tyson’s new Legends Only League, a sports venture owned by Tyson and Eros Innovations, an investment group affiliated with Eros International.

The three-hour live “Frontline Battle” event, in addition to the main fight, will include what promoters promise will be “significant undercard matches” as well as musical performances.

Tyson launched his boxing career at 20 when he became the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title, a record he still holds.

Throughout his career, Tyson held the title of Undisputed World Heavyweight Champion from 1987 to 1990 and was also the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.

Jones, who started out in 1989, has won numerous championships in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions.

In 2003 Jones won the WBA heavyweight title, becoming the first former middleweight champion to win a Heavyweight title in 106 years and has simultaneously held a record seven belts including WBC, WBA, IBF, IBO, NABF, WBF, and IBA light heavyweight championships.

The fight will be available on pay-per-view outlets as well as on music-video app Triller, which has exclusive streaming rights to a 10-part docuseries featuring behind-the-scenes prefight footage.

-AAP