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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 the champion Evander Holyfield and the challenger Mike Tyson on June 28, 1997, for the WBA World Heavyweight Championship. [1]
The Fiction: Toward the end of episode 1, Tyson (B.J. Minor) arrived at a juvenile detention facility in upstate New York. As he’s talking to two of his roommates, they mentioned being in a ...
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 ...
Whose ear did Mike Tyson bite in a boxing match? During their second fight in 1997, Mike Tyson bit off part of Evander Holyfield's right ear. Tyson was disqualified. The fight came seven months ...
Lane, famous for his catchphrase "Let's get it on," refereed many famous fights, including the notorious "Bite Fight" when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear.Lane had a brief career as a ...
According to Douglas Quenqua of The New York Times, "The [1990s] began with Mike Tyson, considered by many to be the last great heavyweight champion, losing his title to the little-known Buster Douglas. Seven years later, Mr. Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear in a heavyweight champion bout—hardly a proud moment for the sport." [163]
That was the Mike Tyson who bit off a piece of Evander Holyfield's ear and spit it on the canvas, who intentionally headbutt his last opponent, Kevin McBride, and who registered 44 knockouts ...
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 ...