MIKE TYSON'S 1997 ring calendar was mapped out yesterday by promoter Don King, four days before the WBA heavyweight champion makes the first title defence against Evander Holyfield at the MGM Grand Garden.

Tyson's vast fortune is set to be swelled by another nine figures in a programme which could climax with a showdown against the 47-year-old George Foreman in September.

Also in the big-fight line-up is a June 26th WBA-WBC title match with Oliver McCall, if he beats Britain's Lennox Lewis for the vacant title in the new year.

King did not include Lewis in his initial Tyson blueprint, but if the former WBC champion overcomes McCall, the only man to beat him as a professional, it would be a logical step to slot Lewis into the plan.

The $9.15 million Lewis v McCall vacant WBA title bout will be held in Nashville, Tennessee, where it will probably be doubled with a big country and western music concert, on January 11th.

"I couldn't even dream of Lewis beating McCall," boomed King with a couple of his trademark quips. "If I did I'd have to wake up and apologise. Lennox Lewis has two chances, slim and none and slim's left town."

Tyson is being lined-up to make a second defence of his WBA crown at Madison Square Garden on January 26th, which would be his first appearance in New York for a decade, possibly against the Polish-born Andrew Galota, or ex-WBO champion Ray Mercer.