Iron Mike Tyson is giving Tyson Fury (27-0, 19 KOs) a fighting shot at pulling off an upset against WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder on Saturday night in their mega-bout on Showtime pay-per-view at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.
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32 years on, and people still talk about Mike Tyson’s electrifying KO of Trevor Berbick. As fans know, Tyson, then just 20 years of age, challenged the reigning WBC heavyweight champ on November 22, 1986.
Irish Jerry Quarry was disappointed that he had not gotten a title shot after his impressive win in his last outing over undefeated slugger Ron Lyle and while he had been back in the gym for a few months after that fight, he was bored and ready for some action.
What was the last big, unmissable world heavyweight title fight that got you all worked up, pumped up and excited? Aside from the Anthony Joshua-Wladimir Klitschko rumble from last year, or maybe the Deontay Wilder-Luis Ortiz battle from earlier this year, chances are, the last really big one to get you in a lather was the Lennox Lewis-Mike Tyson fight from 2002.
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18 years ago, Mike Tyson was an unpredictable fighter, capable of scoring a devastating KO on one night, of acting like a maniac on another.
How different might Mike Tyson’s career have been had Teddy Atlas been holding the reigns right the way through? As fans of “Iron Mike” know, Atlas was a major force in the guidance of the teenage Tyson, before the legendary Cus D’Amato kicked Teddy out (according to Atlas, for taking Mike’s side when the young protege “propositioned” a minor who Atlas was related to) back in the early 1980s.
Most experts are in agreement when it comes to pointing out the absolute peak performance from Mike Tyson’s entire career: almost every person looks to the Michael Spinks fight from 30 years ago this month.
It was the closest heavyweight legends George Foreman and Mike Tyson ever came to fighting one another; in fact the plan was for the two big punchers to collide later that year.
The art of trash-talking has been around the sport of boxing for decades, with it today being as big a part of the game as stare-downs, catch-weight fights and rematch clauses.
Former heavyweight king Mike Tyson was asked for his thoughts on rival heavyweight champs Deontay Wilder (the man who recently caused a stir by saying, when asked, how he would have beaten a peak Tyson) and Anthony Joshua.