Tartikoff died on August 27, 1997 from Hodgkin's disease, with which he had three separate bouts over 25 years.
Again aired on Showtime, for Dawson the card marked the second occasion for which he and Tarver fought in separate bouts on the same card, with Tarver winning each featured bout.
Marcus Silveira and Igor Zinoviev were victorious in separate bouts.
He was offered a place in the England national rugby union team, but two separate bouts with cancer prevented him from playing for England.
They will finally fight on Saturday night at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville, Conn. - but in separate bouts.
During the period of hibernation, the animals average 13 separate bouts of torpor, which are broken up by periods of arousal lasting 1.2 days on average.
The Foreman and Tyson bouts were designed as a prelude to a card that again would co-feature both fighters in separate bouts.
Instead, the card will feature three young heavyweights - Riddick Bowe, Michael Moorer and Lennox Lewis - in separate bouts, and possibly a nonheavyweight title match.
He made his senior debut in 1987, but his initial career was disrupted by three separate bouts of glandular fever between 1987 and 1989.
She died in 2001 at the age of 93, having battled and survived three separate bouts of cancer.