1 day ago Mike Tyson believes he would be capable of unifying the heavyweight division if was fighting the current champions in his prime. Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua.
Covering Mike Tyson's rise through the amateur and professional boxing ranks, this book follows the Brooklyn native from his early years as a young criminal in Brownsville to his 1988 heavyweight unification match with Michael Spinks. The book focuses on the Catskill Boxing Club-where boxing guru Cus D'Amato trained the 210-pound teenager in the finer points of the sport and developed his impregnable defense-and on his home life with D'Amato and surrogate mother Camille Ewald and the other young fighters who lived with them. Tyson's boxing education began in the unauthorized 'smokers' held every week in the Bronx, matching his skills against older, more experienced fighters. He won the 1981 Amateur Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Colorado Springs at the age of 14 and repeated the amazing feat the following year. By 1985, finding no other challenging amateur competition, he was forced to join the professional ranks where, in November 1986, he became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
Less than two years later, he unified the crown, establishing himself as one of the most dominant heavyweight fighters the sport had ever seen.
A ferocious raw puncher honed by a legendary trainer who took him from a street scrapper in Brooklyn to the most feared man on the planet: How Mike Tyson became the youngest ever heavyweight champion at 20 - a record he still holds 34 years later. Mike Tyson became WBC heavyweight champion aged 20 in 1986.
His knockout of Trevor Berbick was his 26th in 28th professional fights. Tyson was trained by the legendary Cus D'Amato, who was his legal guardian. D'Amato died just over a year before Tyson won his first world titleByPublished: 15:58 BST, 11 April 2020 Updated: 15:58 BST, 11 April 2020. Now aged 53, is best known by modern audiences for his controversial quotes, eccentric behaviour and movie appearances.His prowess in the ring will forever be tarnished by his conviction for rape in 1992, and to a lesser extent his disgraceful biting off of a chunk of Evander Holyfield's ear in the ring in 1997, before his career fizzled out with a string of defeats in the early 2000s.But long before any of that, 'Iron' Mike Tyson took the world by storm as he punched his way to a world heavyweight title aged just 20 - the youngest fighter to do so in a record that still stands to this day. November 22, 1986.
Jamaican-Canadian fighter Trevor Berbick - who defeated an ageing Muhammad Ali in 1981 - faces Tyson at the Las Vegas Hilton in the first defence of his WBC title won in March of that year.The fight was billed as 'Judgment Day', the night when we would find out if the most exciting heavyweight prospect since Ali had what it took to win a world title. He did - and with the frightening ease that had marked his career to that date.
Tyson won via TKO in the second round, Berbick failing to get up from his second knockdown.The manner of the victory would have come as no surprise to anyone who had been following Tyson's career. This was his 28th fight and victory in just 20 months as a professional fighter, and the 26th that had come via knockout. The first 16 of those knockouts had come in the first round, so the beleaguered Berbick had actually fared better than most. The crowd watch on as a teenage Tyson faces Sammy Scaff in New York in December 1985Tyson says he developed his ferocious ability through D'Amato telling him to 'punch with bad intentions' and 'through your opponent, not at him', and admits he was 'petrified' of the Italian-American - something which he could not say of anyone else in the world.Writing in his 2017 book Iron Ambition: My Life with Cus D'Amato, Tyson explained: 'I was petrified when I was alone with him. (and) I knew I could get embarrassed in front of everyone if I spoke out of line.
So I learned rather fast not to say anything while he was taking unless he invited me to.' He added: 'When he was happy, talking, laughing with the press, I knew that at any moment s. could happen. People see the public celebrations of my sensational knockouts but they don't hear Cus talking to me alone after the fight! I soon learned to walk on eggshells when I was around Cus.' PosPosTeamPTS1LiverpoolLiverpool822Manchester CityMan City573Leicester CityLeicester534ChelseaChelsea485Manchester UnitedMan Utd456Wolverhampton WanderersWolverhampton437Sheffield UnitedSheff Utd438Tottenham HotspurTottenham419ArsenalArsenal4010BurnleyBurnley3911Crystal PalaceCrystal Palace3912EvertonEverton3713Newcastle UnitedNewcastle3514SouthamptonSouthampton3415Brighton & Hove AlbionBrighton2916West Ham UnitedWest Ham2717WatfordWatford2718AFC BournemouthBournemouth2719Aston VillaAston Villa2520Norwich CityNorwich21.