Mike Tyson is a legendary boxer of the phenomenal level, with a power crit and agile dodge at the same time, and the devastating style of the peak with a stormy fist and a quick fight can easily make people's blood swell. It can be said that Tyson, who came out in the mid-to-late 1980s, almost single-handedly once again lifted boxing, an ancient and professional sport, into the hot golden years.
Looking back at Tyson's 20-year boxing career, he has achieved a total of 50 wins, 6 losses and 44 KO performances, twice winning the WBC heavyweight championship and twice winning the WBA heavyweight championship. Tyson is the peak of his debut super boxer, debuted with 32 consecutive wins, many of the heavyweights of the same period will not be able to go three rounds under Tyson. In his career of 50 wins, Tyson has 24 games directly knocked down opponents like tigers in the first leg, quickly ending the game.
As you get older, any legend will have an ageing day, and Mike Tyson is no exception. In addition, looking back on Tyson's career, his career prospects have been interrupted twice due to personal problems, lack of training, and imprisonment, and each time he returns from a field trip, his state will decline a little, which gives some boxing stars the opportunity to beat Tyson, which is definitely a proud talk in their careers. In this article, I will organize the timeline and take stock of the top five boxers who have beaten Mike Tyson.
James Douglas
Fast forward to February 21, 1990, through ten rounds of fierce fighting, James Douglas resisted Tyson's previous stormy attacks and found the opportunity in the tenth round KO Tyson, thus ending Tyson's 32-game winning streak since his official debut in 1985, and Tyson's heyday was over.
In the history of boxing, this match is still known as one of the biggest underdogs, and James Douglas has made a name for himself in the history of boxing. After defeating Tyson, James Douglas directly won the WBC (World Boxing Council), WBA (World Boxing Association), IBF (International Boxing Federation) three gold belts, maintained the world heavyweight champion for eight months, and then lost the title early in the defending battle by Hollyfield, and then failed to reach the peak.
Among the players who have beaten Tyson, most boxing fans still have a relatively high opinion of James Douglas, even if he is only a short-lived heavyweight champion. Because James Douglas is facing Tyson, who is relatively in his best form, ending the myth of his opponent's 32-game winning streak is extremely experienced.
Ii. Evand Hollyfield
Who is Mike Tyson's strongest opponent and joystick opponent in professional boxing? The answer is the legendary Evand Hollyfield, who has won the world's heavyweight five times, and he is the only player to have beaten Mike Tyson twice.
Back in November 1996, Evand Hollyfield and Mike Tyson met for the first time in their careers. Although Tyson at that time had a decline compared to the early days of his debut, and he was also broken undefeated, the competitive strength was still the existence of super-first-class players. In that year's boxing battle, Evand Hollyfield technically knocked out Tyson in the 11th round, and Tyson tasted the second defeat of his career.
A year later, in the summer, Tyson and Holyfield met again. In this game, Tyson is eager to win, bent on revenge for being defeated by Hollyfield last year, and Hollyfield, who has an advantage in stature and arm span, has taken advantage of this and started with a tangled strategy and has been avoiding Tyson's sharp edge. In the case of being constantly hugged by his opponent and taking the opportunity to pump water to engage himself with small movements, Tyson was anxious, biting Hollyfield's ear in the third round, and then being judged to be defeated in violation of the law, eating the third defeat of his career.
Because of the relationship between the "ear-biting incident" and the outcome of the game, the relationship between the two was once intolerable. However, with the passage of time, the two legendary boxers who have looked down on the past have long since frozen their previous suspicions. Incidentally, in 2014, when Evand Hollyfield became a Hall of Famer, the guest who presented him with the award was Mike Tyson.
Lennox Lewis
Five years after the Bite the Ear defeat, Mike Tyson swallowed his fourth career defeat, and the boxer who knocked him down was Lennox Lewis. Prior to entering the professional arena, Knox Lewis represented Canada in the 1988 Olympic Super Heavyweight Gold Medal at the 1988 Olympic Games, and the following year began to play in the professional arena to play heavyweight.
As a player about the same age as Tyson, Lennox Lewis is also a fierce character, and has been a heavyweight world boxing champion three times in his career, with a 44-game record of 41 wins, 2 losses, 1 draw and 32 KO times. However, it was not until 2002 that everyone was already a veteran before they ushered in the first showdown of their careers. In that battle, Lennox Lewis knocked out Tyson in the eighth round to win.
4. Danny Williams
After entering the new century, Tyson's competitive state decline is still quite obvious, after all, this is his previous two practice vacuum periods. In addition, Tyson himself in the heavyweight player is a static talent is not dominant player, dynamic talent will be lost with the decline of explosive power, and static talent will not, this alone, Tyson is actually difficult to be the king at the age of 30+.
In the match on 30 July 2004, Tyson was KO by Briton Danny Williams in the fourth leg, the penultimate game of the former's career, and the latter became famous. At the end of 2004, Danny Williams challenged the then WBC heavyweight Klitschko, only to be beaten to the ground several times by his opponents, ko in the eighth round. After that, Danny Williams didn't move much.
5. Kevin McBride
On June 11, 2005, Tyson had his second consecutive defeat, the previous one was due to Ivand Hollyfield, in fact, that streak was more caused by Tyson's own sharp ear biting in the second face of Hollyfield, rather than the technical and physical gap factor.
When the second losing streak happened, it really meant that the time had come for Tyson to retire completely. The fist is afraid of being weak and strong, and this statement is not false. In the final battle, Tyson, 39, faces 30-year-old Kevin McBride. After the game began, Tyson was beaten the rest of the time by the unknown white boxer, except for a bump in the corner of McBride's eye in the opening stage. After being knocked to the ground in round 6, the referee aborted the game, and Tyson then said that he decided to leave the game without playing and was sentenced to defeat, and a generation of legends really left a farewell figure in professional boxing.