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Mike Tyson vs. Buster Douglas, billed as Tyson is Back!, was a professional boxing match that occurred at the Tokyo Dome on February 11, 1990. [1] The then-undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion Tyson lost by knockout to the 42-1 underdog Douglas. The fight is widely regarded as one of the biggest upsets in sports history.
Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005, with a post-retirement fight in 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]
Since returning to boxing in January 1999, former Undisputed Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson was undefeated in the five fights he had fought between 1999 and 2000, notching three knockout wins over Francois Botha, Julius Francis and Lou Savarese, and fighting two no-contests with Orlin Norris and Andrew Golota. Tyson's previous fight had come ...
Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks, billed as Once and For All, [1] was a professional boxing match which took place on June 27, 1988. [2] Both fighters were undefeated and each had a claim to being the legitimate heavyweight champion .
That bout lasted less than two minutes, with Tyson knocking out the previously undefeated Spinks in 91 seconds. In 1992, Tyson was sent to prison for six years after being convicted of raping a ...
Mike Tyson (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)
Mike Tyson (50-6-2, 44 KOs) and Jake Paul (10-1, 7 KOs) finally are in the ring and the most anticipated fight in probably a decade is set to begin.
Mike Tyson was 19 years old and undefeated when he met former heavyweight contender James "Quick" Tillis in his 20th professional bout. Tyson had won all his 19 previous fights by way of knockout, while Tillis had lost four of his previous five fights and came into the fight as a huge underdog.