At the end of the 1990s, when the heavyweight boxing scene was being handed over, there was a newcomer from New Zealand who attracted the attention of the media, he was thick-looking, and his body style of play was very similar to the former world heavyweight boxing champion "Mike Tyson", this person was David Tua.
Looking back at David Tua's entire career, brilliance and regret coexist, brilliantly, in his 52 wins, 43 ended in ko ways, 16 of which were in the first leg, and in these 43 kos, including world heavyweight champion Ruiz and two-time heavyweight boxing champion Muller, as well as world champions Oleg Mascaev and Hassim Raman.
Unfortunately, in addition to Mueller, the above three became world champions after being ko! And Raman has also been crowned king twice, and Tua not only did not win the championship, he has only played one world title battle in the boxing world for twenty years, Tua has played a total of 59 professional battles, and the quality of the opponent is not picked, so why only get the opportunity to challenge the world boxing king?
Unlike boxers in many other countries, although Tua is a New Zealand citizen, most of his matches are played in the United States, only 8 of the 59 matches are in New Zealand, it can be said that from the day of his debut, the United States is the main battlefield of Tua, and the goal is very clear.
In fact, Tua brushed a long time in the early days of his career, which is undoubtedly a waste of his own good time, entering the profession in 1992, playing the first international title battle of his career in 1996, spending four years brushing 22 games, to challenge Lewis He has been in boxing for eight years, playing 39 matches.
People regard him as Tyson II, but the real Tyson debuted in 1985 and successfully won the 86th year, and unified the three major boxing organizations in 1987. Hollyfield used 18 games to unify the sub-heavyweights, and when he rose to the heavyweight ko Douglas became the heavyweight boxing champion, it was the 25th professional battle, and 25 games unified the three major boxing organizations in both classes.
Lewis won the title in the 22nd game, his title was directly awarded by WBC after defeating Radock, originally this game was just a boxing qualification battle, but due to the official boxing champion Ridick Bow gave up, so Lewis picked up a bargain, against Tony Tucker is his first defending battle.
From the above data, it is not difficult to see that Tua did waste too much time, and although the one-round spike mob was shocking, it was not as good as winning an intercontinental title battle with 12 rounds of points. Toua, who was obsessed with brushing records in the early days, was still trying to challenge the title at the end of his 41-year-old career.
In his first intercontinental title battle in 1996, he killed Ruiz in one round and became the international boxing champion of WBC, but unfortunately lost to Ibibuch, which is also a very classic duel in the boxing world, and has been talked about by boxing fans.
Tua has since won ten consecutive victories, including Ko Raman, which won him the IBF Intercontinental Title and a small organization USBA Heavyweight Championship, which he had qualified to challenge Lewis, but Tua gave up the IBF Intercontinental title to defend his USBA title.
Interestingly, after defending his title for two matches, he once again went to compete for the IBF intercontinental title, and it was because he won this intercontinental title again that he qualified to play against Lewis.
Unfortunately, in this heavyweight battle, Tua lost the twelve rounds of points, and one thing that needs to be explained is that Tua's difficulty in challenging the world title that year surpassed that of Tyson, Hollyfield and Lewis. Tua challenged the boxers of the era when dynastic rule had been established, and all three of them were at the end of an era when they won the championship.
After the Holmes era, the crowd rose up, Tyson became the queen of the chaotic world, and gradually created his own era, and Hollyfield won the championship at the end of the Tyson era, Lewis was directly awarded, of course, lewis also proved that his victory was not a fluke. So objectively speaking, Tua's difficulty is higher than that of the three of them.
In fact, after losing to Lewis, Tua had two more chances, the first time was his match with Chris Bird, the winner would become the IBF forced challenger, however he lost this crucial battle, and the victor Bird got the opportunity to compete for the vacant IBF title and succeeded.
Another time was in 2004, when he had the opportunity to compete for the WBO heavyweight title, but at that time he was in a lawsuit with the promoter, and this time the missing hand made him completely out of the championship title.
By 2013, the 41-year-old Tua was not dead set, and he wanted to try again, his goal was to challenge the then heavyweight first man Klitschenko, who, under the operation of the promoter, competed with Russia's giant boxer Ustinov for the WBA intercontinental title.
Although the battle was played in Tua's home country, New Zealand, the whole game was in a passive situation, but due to Tua's heavy punch, Ustinov did not attack unscrupulously, and finally lost the big score of 12 rounds, this battle destroyed Tua's last hope, and announced his withdrawal from boxing after the game.
Tua has left many classic examples throughout his career, and his boxing style is also loved by boxing fans, if he goes back to 1992, will he spend eight years to lay the groundwork for a world title battle?