Mike Tyson

 

his record

 

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Born: Jun 30, 1966, Brooklyn, NY
Height: 5 ft. 9 1/2 in.
Managers : Bill Cayton & Jim Jacobs; Rory Holloway & John Horne; Shelly Finkel

 

Amateur highlights
1981
Jun	---	---		KO 1	U.S. Jr. Olympic Champion Heavyweight
Nov? 	Ernie Bennet		L 3	Rhode Island
 
1982
Jun	Jonathon Littles	KO 2 	U.S. Jr. Olympic Tourney, Heavyweight	Salem, OR
Jun	Don Cozad		KO 1 	U.S. Jr. Olympic Tourney, Heavyweight	Salem, OR
Jun 26	Kelton Brown		KO 1	U.S. Jr. Olympic Tourney, Heavyweight	Salem, OR
---	Kilbert Pierce		W 3	USA/ABF Region 1 Tourney		Boston, MA
Dec 12	Al Evans  		LK  3	Binghampton, NY

1983
Mar	Andrew Stokes  		KO 3	National Golden Gloves Super Heavy	Albuquerque, NM 
Mar	Mike Bardwell  		KO 1	National Golden Gloves Super Heavy 	Albuquerque, NM
Mar	Warren Thompson		W	National Golden Gloves Super Heavy	Albuquerque, NM 
Mar 26	Craig Payne  		L 3	National Golden Gloves Super Heavy	Albuquerque, NM
Aug 14	Olian Alexander		W	Ohio State Fair National Invitational, 200 lbs
Aug 27	---	---		---	US (Under 19) Champion +201-lb Gold Medalist 
Dec 10	Kimmuel Odum  		L DQ 2	United States Championship Tournament

1984
---	Orbit Pough		KO 1	US (Under 19) Champion +201-lb Gold Medalist 
---	Derek Isaman  		W 3	National Golden Gloves 
---	Richard Johnson		KO 	National Golden Gloves 
---	Johnny Williams		KO 	National Golden Gloves 
---	Rocky Pepeli  		KO 	National Golden Gloves 
---	Jonathan Littles 	KO 1	National Golden Gloves 201-lb Gold Medalist
Jun 8	Avery Rawls		W 3	United States Olympic Trials 201-lb	Fort Worth, TX
Jun 9	Henry Milligan		KO 2	United States Olympic Trials		Fort Worth, TX
Jun 10	Henry Tillman		L 3	United States Olympic Trials, Silver	Fort Worth, TX
Jul 6	Olian Alexander		[?]	United States Olympic Box-offs 201-lb	Las Vegas, NV
Jul 7	Henry Tillman		L 3	United States Olympic Box-offs 201-lb	Las Vegas, NV
Oct	Opponent		?	Finland


Professional Record

1985
Mar 6	Hector Mercedes		Albany, NY		KO 1
Apr 10	Trent Singleton		Albany, NY		KO 1
May 23	Donald Halpin		Atlantic City		KO 4
Jun 20	Rick Spain		Atlantic City		KO 1
Jul 11	John Alderson		Atlantic City		TKO 2
Jul 19	Larry Sims		Poughkeepsie, NY	KO 3
Aug 15	Lorenzo Canady		Atlantic City		KO 1
Sep 5	Mike Johnson		Atlantic City		KO 1
Oct 9	Donnie Long		Atlantic City		KO 1
Oct 25	Robert Colay		Atlantic City		KO 1
Nov 1	Sterling Benjamin	Latham, NY		KO 1

Nov 4  	Cus D'Amato dies

Nov 13	Eddie Richardson	Houston, TX		KO 1
Nov 22	Conroy Nelson		Albany, NY		KO 2
Dec 6	"Slammin" Sammy Scaff	New York, NY		KO 1
Dec 27	Mark Young		Colonie, NY		KO 1

1986
Jan 11	David Jaco		Albany, NY		KO 1
Jan 24	Mike Jamison		Atlantic City		KO 5
Feb 16	Jesse Ferguson		Troy, NY		KO 6
Mar 10	Steve Zouski		Uniondale, NY		KO 3
May 3	James Tillis		Glen Falls, NY		W 10
May 20	Mitch "Blood" Green	New York, NY		W 10
Jun 13	Reggie Gross		New York, NY		KO 1
Jun 28	William Hosea		Troy, NY		KO 1
Jul 11	Lorenzo Boyd		Swan Lake, NY		KO 2
Jul 26	Marvis Frazier		Glen Falls, NY		KO 1
Aug 17	Jose Ribalta		Atlantic City		KO 10
Sep 6	Alfonso Ratliff		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 2
Nov 22	Trevor Berbick		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 2 
	(Won WBC heavyweight title)

1987
Mar 3	James Smith		Las Vegas, NV 		W 12
	(Won WBA heavyweight title; retained WBC)
May 30	Pinklon Thomas		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 6
	(Retained WBA & WBC heavyweight titles)
Aug 1	Tony Tucker		Las Vegas, NV 		W 12
	(Retained WBA-WBC, won IBF heavyweight titles)
Oct 16	Tyrell Biggs		Atlantic City		KO 7
	(Retained WBA, IBF, WBC titles)

1988
Jan 22	Larry Holmes	Atlantic City, NJ		KO 4
	(Retained WBA, IBF, WBC titles)

Mar 20	Tony Tubbs		Tokyo, Japan		KO 2
	(Retained WBA, IBF, WBC titles)
Jun 22	Michael Spinks		Atlantic City		KO 1
	(won undisputed world heavyweight title)

1989
Feb 25	Frank Bruno		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 5
	(Retained world heavyweight title)
Jul 21	Carl Williams		Atlantic City		KO 1
	(Retained world heavyweight title)

1990
Feb 11	James "Buster" Douglas	Tokyo, 			LK 10
	(Lost world heavyweight title)
Jun 16	Henry Tillman		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 1
Dec 8	Alex Stewart		Atlantic City, NJ	KO 1

1991
Mar 18	Donavan Ruddock		Las Vegas, NV		TKO 7
Jun 28	Donavan Ruddock		Las Vegas, NV		W 12

On July 19, 1991, Tyson had sex wth Desiree Washington. On September 9, 1991, 
an Indiana Grand Jury  voted to indict Tyson  on three counts, including one 
for the rape of  Washington. Tyson was convicted on February 10, 1992 and was 
imprisoned.  He did not fight in 1992 through August 1995. 

On Aug. 16, 1994, Tyson signed a contract in a prison visiting room making 
John Horne and Rory Holloway his official managers.  Then, two weeks before 
Tyson was to be released from prison, he signed an agreement giving King 
30 percent of all his earnings and Horne and Holloway 10 percent each. 
In return, Tyson got signing bonuses worth about $35 million from contracts 
King had negotiated with Showtime and the MGM Grand.

1995
Aug 19	Peter McNeeley		Las Vegas, NV		W DQ 1
Dec 16	Buster Mathis Jr.	Philadelphia		KO 3

1996
Mar 16	Frank Bruno 		Las Vegas, NV		K0 3
	(won WBA title) 

Sep 7	Bruce Seldon 		Las Vegas, NV 		KO 1
	(for WBC title; WBA title not at stake)
Nov 9	Evander Holyfield 	Las Vegas, NV 		LK 11
	(loses WBA heavyweight title)

1997
Jun 28	Evander Holyfield 	Las Vegas, NV 		L DQ3
	(for WBA Heavyweight Title) 

Jun 30 	Tyson issues a public apology to Evander Holyfield  
	Nevada State Athletic Commission revokes his boxing license 
	and fines him $3 million for the Holyfield incident.

1999 
Jan 16	Francois Botha 		Las Vegas, NV 		TKO 5
Oct 24	Orlin Norris 		Las Vegas, NV 		NC 1

2000
Jan 29	Julius Francis		Manchester, Eng 	KO2
Jun 24	Lou Savarese		Glasgow, Scotland 	TKO 1
Oct 20	Andrew Golota		Detroit 		NC 3
        (Kayo win ruled No Contest after Tyson tests positive for drugs)

2001
Oct	Brian Nielson		Denmark			TKO 7

2002
Jun 8	Lennox Lewis             Memphis, TN             LK 8
          (For Lineal Heavyweight title)

 

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