"Iron" Mike Tyson and Tupac Shakur Together Tomorrow Night

One Night in Vegas is scheduled to premiere on ESPN's documentary
series 30 for 30 tomorrow at 8PM EST.

The documentary will examine the September 1996 title bout between
"Iron" Mike Tyson and "The Atlantic City Express" Bruce Seldon at the
MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

Tyson (50-6-0-2, 44 KOs), who Ring Magazine ranked the sixteenth best
puncher ever, entered the bout as the WBC heavyweight champion while
Seldon (40-8, 36 KOs) stepped into the ring the WBA titlist.

In only his fourth match back since being sprung from the pen for
rape, Tyson easily defeated Seldon by a curiously unthreatening first round TKO.

The crowd was incensed at the fraud they witnessed and chanted "Fix! Fix! Fix!" upon the conclusion of the bout.

The spectators in attendance were rightfully disgusted at the
pugilistic charade.

Tyson's cement fists barely glanced off the top of Seldon's head and, there was zero reason a respectable prizefighter like "The Atlantic City Express" couldn't absorb the feathery blows to continue.

Famed sportswriter Jimmy Cannon once appropriately referred to boxing
as “the red light district of sports” because of its rogue nature.

Hence, controversy is nothing new to boxing.

However, the real controversy that evening in "Sin City" had not yet occurred.

Legendary rapper Tupac Shakur had attended the sham that evening with
a flock of his seedy cronies.

One of the members of Shakur's posse was notorious gangster and former
CEO of Death Row Records Marion "Suge" Knight.

As Tupac and his flunkies began to vacate the hotel, Knight spotted a member of the Southside Crips gang, Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, who reportedly robbed a man associated with Death Row earlier that year.

Knight informed  Shakur of Anderson's presence and the man Rolling Stone Magazine named the 86th Greatest Artist of All Time promptly attacked the alleged thief. 

Shakur and his minions badly beat Anderson and the entire fracas was captured on lobby surveillance cameras.

After the pounding, Shakur departed in Knight's 1996 black BMW 750 iL sedan to party at now-defunct Death Row-owned Club 662. 

Tyson and Shakur had forged a firm kinship and "Iron Mike" was set to attend the thug-filled soiree. 

Unfortunately, Shakur would not reach his destination.

While stopped at a traffic light, a late-model Cadillac pulled alongside Knight's Beemer and one of the Caddy's occupants sprayed bullets at the former CEO's vehicle.

Shakur was struck by bullets in the chest, pelvis, right hand and thigh, and died a week later from the mortal wounds he suffered.

2Pac's murder has never been solved.

In the primes of the respective careers, Mike Tyson was one of the preeminent boxers ever and Shakur was an absolutely giant heavyweight in the world of rap.

Fourteen years have now elapsed since that infamous and controversial evening in "Sin City."

Nevertheless, considering ESPN's ability to produce spectacular documentaries, September 7, 1996 may virtually come back to life in 24 hours time.