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    SummaryVisual artist Matt McCormick and Mike Tyson have announced “Judgment Day,” a limited-edition blind-pack fine art print collection under McCormick's “Past The Line” project, centered on November 22, 1986 — the night 20-year-old Tyson became the youngest world heavyweight champion in historyThe collection is available in two editions: the Gold Pack, hand-signed by both McCormick and Tyson, and the Silver Pack, hand-signed by McCormick alone, both blind-packed with numbered variants so the edition size printed on each piece tells you exactly how many of that variant existMcCormick's work does not depict the fight itself but the pause immediately after; the instant before the outcome was called, when the reverberations of what just happened had not yet settledMatt McCormick and Mike Tyson have announced “Past The Line - Judgment Day,” a blind-pack fine art print collection built around a single frozen moment: the pause after Trevor Berbick hit the canvas on November 22, 1986, before the world caught up with what Tyson had just done. The collection drops in two editions, Gold and Silver, each blind-packed with numbered variants that tell you exactly how rare your pull is.McCormick's framing of the subject is what separates this from standard sports memorabilia. Rather than depicting the fight or the knockout itself, the work focuses on the instant immediately after the outcome became clear but before its weight had settled — the seconds in which a 20-year-old from Brownsville became the youngest heavyweight champion in history, but the full meaning of that had not yet arrived. It is a technically precise editorial choice: the violence is absent, the spectacle is present, and the mythology is in the process of forming. McCormick has described his practice as navigating the tension between mythology and contemporary life, and “Judgment Day” is that idea applied to one of the most culturally loaded moments in twentieth century sport.The blind-pack format is not a gimmick applied to a fine art context but a structural decision that makes the act of collecting the work as meaningful as the work itself. Each pack contains one numbered fine art print; the edition size printed on that number tells you exactly how many of that variant exist across the entire collection, with no ambiguity and no secondary market guesswork. The Gold Pack carries McCormick's and Tyson's signatures on every single print, while the Silver Pack carries McCormick's signature across a wider variant pool. Both follow the same blind-pack reveal ritual, where the specific variant remains unknown until the pack is opened.The November 22, 1986 win over Berbick was the beginning of a run that would see him unify the WBA, WBC, and IBF titles and become undisputed heavyweight champion of the world — a dominance so complete it produced a mythology that has outlasted the career itself. Few athletes have crossed into the kind of cultural territory where strength, volatility, and reinvention become simultaneously legible in a single name. McCormick's exhibitions have run at Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles, Just A Space in Paris, and OMNI in London, among others; his practice has consistently located the point where American heroism and its architecture become visible. “Judgment Day” is that lens applied to its most concentrated subject.Matt McCormick and Mike Tyson’s “Judgment Day” is available in Gold and Silver editions via Past The Line.

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