Tyson returns to ring tonight to pay bills

He'll meet Danny Williams in a 10-round bout in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, KY. (AP) -- Mike Tyson is running out of time and second chances.
He returns to the ring tonight broke, aging and in desperate need of a win to help repay creditors and rebuild the $300 million fortune he somehow managed to squander.
Tyson does it in Muhammad Ali's hometown against a British heavyweight by the name of Danny Williams, who seems to understand that he was chosen because he works cheap and poses little threat to the former baddest man on the planet.
He does it knowing that time is running out, and both his legacy and financial health are at stake.
"My future seems so much brighter than my past," Tyson said. "I'm a different person today."
Different fighter
Tyson is also a different fighter from the man who once terrorized the heavyweight division in the late 1980s. He's thicker, slower and still making a living from those who remember him as the most intimidating fighter ever.
Those days, though, are long gone. At 38, he's a shell of the fighter he once was, reduced to taking on fringe contenders while hoping he still has something left -- and that fans still care enough to pay to see it.
Even Williams is curious to find out the answer.
"I don't believe he's the threat he once was," Williams said.
The return is hardly a calculated one. Tyson blew through millions and now owes $38 million to creditors. He hasn't fought in 17 months, but now must fight again because he has no money left.
"I didn't think I was going to fight again," Tyson said. "I wanted to be like Ricky Williams and have some fun."
Loses everything
The fun stopped when creditors took his cars, made him sell his multimillion-dollar houses and reduced Tyson to caring for his pigeons in a modest Phoenix home. But Tyson insists that while he's fighting again because of necessity, he has also rediscovered a love for the sport.
Now, it's a new, mellower Tyson who has no entourage, shows no public anger and appears genuinely happy to be back in the ring.
"I'm just looking forward to fighting Friday," Tyson said. "Isn't it cool to be fighting Friday?"
Tyson, who has been in the ring only 49 seconds since taking a beating from Lennox Lewis two years ago, trained three months for the scheduled 10-round fight.