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Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield, billed as Finally, was a professional boxing match fought between Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson for the WBA heavyweight championship on November 9, 1996, at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Paradise, Nevada. [1]
Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson II, billed as The Sound and the Fury and afterwards infamously referred to as The Bite Fight, was a professional boxing match contested between the champion Evander Holyfield and the challenger Mike Tyson on June 28, 1997, for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship. [1]
Evander Holyfield (born October 19, 1962) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1984 and 2011. He reigned as the undisputed champion [a] in the cruiserweight division in the late 1980s and at heavyweight in the early 1990s, and was the only boxer in history to win the undisputed championship in two weight classes in the "three-belt era", a feat later surpassed by ...
In 2021, Holyfield was 58 – the same as Tyson last Friday – when he met one of the UFC’s genuine bad boys, Vitor Belfort; the fight finished at 1:49 of the first round with Holyfield falling ...
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 1985 to 2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" [4] and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", [5] Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time. [6]
The final championship fight worked by Lane came in August 1998, when he accidentally shoved Bernard Hopk Mills Lane, Referee Who Officiated Mike Tyson vs. Evander Holyfield 2, Dead at 85 Skip to ...
Tyson would go on to earn $30 million for each of his next four matches, which included an infamous 1997 fight against Evander Holyfield in which Tyson bit off a piece of his opponent's right ear.
WBA and IBF heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield had embarked on one of the more successful comebacks in boxing history. Holyfield had lost two of his last four fights before landing a WBA heavyweight title shot against Mike Tyson. Though Holyfield came into the fight as an overwhelming underdog (Odds opened at 28–1 in favor of Tyson before ...