This just in: The Mike Tyson fight against Clifford Etiene, scheduled for Saturday night, has been canceled.

And so the Tyson saga continues, even for those who just wish it would go away once and for all. Throughout all of his trials and tribulations, Tyson is still here and he is still considered the top draw for his sport.

More than anything, it should show what the state of boxing has become. No longer does it have the capacity to replace one good boxer with another — otherwise, Tyson would not have been the main man in boxing for a while now.

Boxing, at least in the heavyweight division, doesn’t have the same amount of talented and attention-grabbing boxers as it used to. Take, for example, the 1960s after Muhammad Ali was banned from boxing, he was replaced with Smokin’ Joe Frazier who was, in turn, beaten by George Foreman.

All three of these former boxers, if any was to enter the sport at their prime now, would be better to watch than Tyson at this point of his career. I don’t know if anybody could be as exciting in a terrifying way, as Tyson was in his prime.

But his prime has passed him. All you have to do is ask the Heavyweight Champion of the World Lennox Lewis who left Tyson with both eyes cut and swollen and a bloody nose after their last fight (if you could call such a one-sided beating a fight).

This just in: The Tyson fight scheduled for Saturday night is back on.

And so the Tyson saga continues. At the same time people are saying (and don’t laugh) he has some mental problems and probably shouldn’t fight. This is quite a startling discovery considering anybody who has heard Tyson’s antics in the past decade understood this concept already.

The most recent events supporting Tyson’s mental instability include his claims to have been bed-ridden for the past five days with the flu. Other rumors have circled that Tyson has been experiencing back problems. Either way, is it an excuse for a boxer to skip town for a couple of days while training and get some sort of African tribal tattoo covering up the majority of the left side of his face?

What boxer in his right mind would get a facial tattoo less than a week before he has to go and fight a person whose main objective will be to hit his already sore face as hard as he can? Tyson might as well have tattooed a bullseye on the left side of his face for Etiene.

More importantly, and sadly, this is all boxing has to offer anymore. Their main attraction for the ticket gate and the press is still Tyson, even though he is mentally unstable and seemingly washed up as a boxer.

Not only can boxing promoters not sell any other fighter, but they can’t even sell-out a Mike Tyson fight anymore simply because not enough people believe he is any type of force in the ring. Because of this, promoters and boxers have to stage antics, preferably with Tyson as the headliner, just to get interest.

This just in: nobody actually knows if this fight is going to happen or not. Instead people would just rather sit back and hear what happens with him outside the ring and have a chuckle at his expense.