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Tony Craig Tucker (born December 27, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1980 to 1998. He won the IBF heavyweight title in 1987, and was the shortest-reigning world heavyweight champion at just 64 days.
Mike Tyson vs. Tony Tucker, billed as The Ultimate, was a professional boxing match contested on August 1, 1987 for the WBA, WBC, and IBF heavyweight championships. [ 2 ] Background
Lennox Lewis vs. Tony Tucker, billed as Star Spangled Glory, was a heavyweight professional boxing match contested between WBC champion Lennox Lewis and the WBC's number one ranked contender Tony Tucker. [1] The bout took place on May 8, 1993 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Paradise, Nevada, U.S. Lewis retained his WBC title via unanimous decision.
(def. Tony Tucker) 1 Aug 1987 – 11 Feb 1990 6 2 Buster Douglas: 11 Feb – 25 Oct 1990 0 3 Evander Holyfield: 25 Oct 1990 – 13 Nov 1992 3 4 Riddick Bowe: 13 Nov – 14 Dec 1992 0 Bowe's undisputed status ended when he vacated his WBC title and threw the title into the trash. [11] 5 Lennox Lewis (def. Evander Holyfield) 13 Nov 1999 – 12 ...
August 1 – The final of Don King's Heavyweight tournament: Mike Tyson defeats Tony Tucker by a twelve-round unanimous decision to become undisputed world Heavyweight champion. October 4 – Wilfredo Vazquez wins the first of three world titles by knocking out WBA world Bantamweight champion Chan-Yong Park in ten rounds at Seoul, South Korea.
The first of the featured bouts saw former IBF heavyweight champion Tony Tucker (ranked WBA:4th, WBC:5th & IBF 11th) face unbeaten contender Henry Akinwande (ranked WBA:3rd, WBC:4th & IBF 7th). Tucker was coming off a retirement loss to Bruce Seldon in his second attempt to regain a portion of the heavyweight title, in which he had fractured ...
This fight, along with the Tucker-Douglas fight that preceded it and served as the co-main event of the broadcast, were the two penultimate matches in HBO’s Heavyweight World Series; this was a tournament devised by the three major world sanctioning bodies, HBO, and promoter Don King to unify the heavyweight championships and crown an undisputed champion.
Lewis defended the belt three times, defeating Tony Tucker, whom he knocked down for the first time in Tucker's career, and Frank Bruno and Phil Jackson by knockout. The Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno fight was the first time two British-born boxers fought for a version of the world heavyweight title in the modern era. [31]