Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson (also known as Malik Abdul Aziz) (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, with twelve of them occurring in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold and only Heavyweight to individually unify the WBA, WBC and IBF titles.
In 1988, Tyson became the lineal champion when he knocked out Michael Spinks in the first 91 seconds of the fight. Tyson successfully defended the world heavyweight championship nine times, including victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. Tyson lost his titles to 42-to-1 underdog James "Buster" Douglas on February 11, 1990, in Tokyo, Japan, by a knockout in round 10. Tyson continued in his quest to regain the titles, defeating Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991. Tyson was then scheduled to take on the undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield but pulled out due to injury.
In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington, for which he was sentenced to six years in prison, but was released after serving three years. After being released from prison in 1995, he engaged in a series of comeback fights. In 1996, Tyson won the WBC and WBA titles after defeating Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon by knockout. After being stripped of the WBC title, Tyson lost his WBA crown to Evander Holyfield in November, 1996 by an 11th round TKO. Their 1997 rematch ended when Tyson was disqualified for biting off part of Holyfield's ear.
In 2002, he fought for the world heavyweight title at the age of 35, losing by knockout to Lennox Lewis. Tyson retired from professional boxing in 2006 after he was knocked out in consecutive matches against Danny Williams and Kevin McBride. Tyson declared bankruptcy in 2003, despite receiving over US$30 million for several of his fights and $300 million during his career.
Throughout his career, Tyson became well known for his ferocious and intimidating boxing style as well as his controversial behavior both inside and outside the ring. Tyson is considered to have been one of the best heavyweight boxers of all time. He is ranked No. 16 on The Ring's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.
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Forget pitying the boxers I've lined up to show you getting spanked by Iron Mike.
What did they really lose? How did they really suffer? What did they really have to go through adding to this man's highlight reel?
Nothing.
They got off easy compared to the degree of cruelty and frustration I endured at the hands of Tyson for an entire year's worth of school lunch hours in second-grade playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
Our entire school was like a lit powder keg the day
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Fortunately, during an interview with Mike Tyson last year, I avoided this topic of discussion.
He's been through a lot over the years. It hardly seems necessary to rub anything in against him (like, I don't know, being able to knock him out in the first round since I was the age of 8).
But don't kid yourself, implicitly he
knew––as now you know––given an NES and a joystick, that game-for-anything midget Little Mac as my avatar, and the philosophical, shoulder-patting master Doc Louis returning to my corner, I'd cream him.
As you might have noticed, compiling a list of Tyson's greatest punches brings me back to the excitement Tyson was able to generate at that time.
It goes something like this: Mike Tyson was the most expensive drug that entertainment had ever unleashed on the public. After seeing any of his knockouts, we were all hooked.
The broadcasters calling his fights and stepping in the ring to interview him looked as if they were mainlining what the rest of us were only getting wasted off of by the fumes.
Early on Tyson was marketed by his managers with a poster that said something to the effect of this:
Your grandfather missed Marciano.
Your dad missed Ali.
Don't miss Mike Tyson.
I think that captures it all. >>>>>>>>>