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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 Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson on June 28, 1997, for the WBA Heavyweight Championship. [1]
Seeing the cheapshots as intentional, a fed-up Tyson resorts to biting Holyfield’s ear. The referee then delays the fight, before informing Tyson he was deducting two points from his score for ...
Mike Tyson was disqualified for biting Evander Holyfield’s ear in 1997 (Sky Sports/PA handout) I ask about the difference between being “nice” and “kind”. He replies with that familiar lisp.
Many keen-eyed viewers noticed that Mike Tyson was biting his gloves a lot during his fight with Jake Paul. ... this is in reference to when Tyson infamously bit Evander Holyfield's ear during ...
Tyson's loss to Buster Douglas, which he had intended as a tune-up fight for the Holyfield match, derailed those plans. Holyfield was given the first shot at the new champion and won in a third-round knockout. Tyson, meanwhile, entered into a fight with Canadian heavyweight contender Donovan Ruddock with the winner to face Holyfield. However, a ...
On April 17, 2014, Tyson threw out the ceremonial first pitch at PNC Park in Pittsburgh between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers, throwing a fastball into the strike zone, then pretending to bite off the ear of backup catcher Tony Sanchez, in an obvious reference to the Evander Holyfield incident.
But when it comes to making light of the ear biting, Tyson has beat Paul to the punch, having launched ear-shaped marijuana edibles (with Holyfield's consent) through his company, Tyson 2.0, a ...
Tyson was seemingly joking about his famous disqualification against Evander Holyfield in 1997. On that night, Tyson was DQed after biting his opponent’s ear. (AFP via Getty Images)