Mike Tyson vs. Larry Holmes, billed as Heavyweight History, was a professional boxing match contested on January 22, 1988, for the WBA, WBC, and IBF Heavyweight...
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Larry Holmes (born November 3, 1949) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1973 to 2002 and was world heavyweight champion from 1978...
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Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks, billed as Once and For All, was a professional boxing match which took place on June 27, 1988. Both fighters were undefeated...
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Mike Tyson vs. Marvis Frazier was a professional boxing match contested on July 26, 1986. The fight took place at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens...
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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...
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an impressive victory over ex-Heavyweight champion Larry Holmes. Shortly after his victory, Tyson's promoter Don King was able to work out a blockbuster...
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Mike Tyson vs. Tyrell Biggs, billed as The Clash for the Crown, was a professional boxing match contested on October 16, 1987, for the undisputed heavyweight...
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Evander Holyfield vs. Larry Holmes, billed as "Class of Champions", was a professional boxing match contested on June 19, 1992, for the undisputed heavyweight...
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Larry Holmes vs. Gerry Cooney was a heavyweight boxing match that took place on June 11, 1982, in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. It was one of the...
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2024. Nicknamed "Iron Mike" and "Kid Dynamite" in his early career, and later known as "the Baddest Man on the Planet", Tyson is regarded as one of the...
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Mike Tyson vs. Carl Williams was a professional boxing match contested on July 21, 1989, for WBA, WBC, IBF, and The Ring heavyweight championships. After...
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Mike Tyson vs. Brian Nielsen was a professional boxing match contested on 13 October 2001. Since returning to boxing in January 1999, former Undisputed...
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Trevor Berbick (section Feud with Larry Holmes)
2001. Berbick is the only boxer to have fought Muhammad Ali, Larry Holmes, and Mike Tyson. At 22, Berbick represented his native Jamaica in the 1976 Summer...
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Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas, billed as Hard Road to Glory, was a professional boxing match contested on May 30, 1987, for the WBA and WBC heavyweight...
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Ray Mercer vs. Larry Holmes, billed as The Last Stand, was a professional boxing match contested on February 7, 1992. The previous year was a good one...
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Oliver McCall vs. Larry Holmes, billed as "Burden of Proof", was a professional boxing match contested on April 8, 1995 for the WBC Heavyweight Championship...
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Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II, billed as The Rematch, was a professional boxing match contested on June 28, 1991. It was the second time the two fighters...
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including Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, George Foreman, Larry Holmes, Tomasz Adamek, Roberto Duran, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Chris Byrd, John Ruiz, Julio...
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Michael Spinks vs. Larry Holmes II, billed as Vindication in Vegas, was a professional boxing match contested on 19 April 1986, IBF, The Ring and Lineal...
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Mitch Green (section Feud with Mike Tyson)
gone the distance with Mike Tyson in 1986, who was undefeated at the time. Two years later, in 1988, Green ended up fighting Tyson again in a notorious...
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heavyweight world titles; the IBF title against Larry Holmes in 1985; and the undisputed title against Mike Tyson in 1989. At regional level he held the USBA...
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Michael Spinks (redirect from Mike Spinks)
and as an underdog defeated long-reigning IBF heavyweight champion Larry Holmes (whose own 48–0 record up to that point was one victory short of tying...
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reach), Ribalta is best known for his brave performance against Mike Tyson in 1986. Beside Tyson, Ribalta faced many notable fighters during the peak of his...
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defense of the title that Douglas had won eight months earlier by upsetting Mike Tyson in Tokyo. Holyfield defeated an out-of-shape Douglas by knocking him out...
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USA and saw Douglas making the first defense of the titles he won from Mike Tyson in February 1990. After becoming the first boxer in history to win all...
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Jesse Ferguson (section Tyson fight)
next fight. In 1986 he took on prospect Mike Tyson who was 17–0, and making his national television debut. Tyson broke Ferguson's nose in the fifth round...
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Witherspoon knocked him out in 11 rounds in 1986, undisputed champion Mike Tyson stopped him in five rounds in 1989, and WBC champion Lennox Lewis finished...
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Oliver McCall (section Lewis vs McCall)
chins of his time. According to Frank Bruno: He was also known to be Mike Tyson's top sparring partner. Born in Chicago, McCall moved to live with his...
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against newly crowned WBC champion Mike Tyson in a unification contest. Taking place on March 7, 1987, the bout saw Tyson beat Smith to the punch in nearly...
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Heavyweight unification series (category Boxing matches involving Mike Tyson)
Spinks) Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas – Tyson defeated Thomas by technical knockout in six rounds to retain the WBA and WBC titles. Mike Tyson vs. Tony...
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