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“Mike Tyson can’t handle my baby.” Her baby ain’t won more than about seven or eight fights, you know what I’m sayin’? Mike Tyson is like undefeated.īut what happened was, just a couple days before the actual fight, his mom dies. He knockin’ folk out, like don’t do that, ya know. He’s like “Ma, chill out, this is Mike Tyson. He was supposed to fight somebody else, but this was like a fight in between until he could fight I guess Holyfield or whoever he was trying to fight.īut the crazy thing – when you study the story – is that this dude’s mom had told everybody at the beauty shop that her son was gonna beat Mike Tyson. This guy right here Buster Douglas…matter of fact, the reports say that Mike wasn’t even supposed to fight him. If you didn’t catch Mike Tyson’s fight like in the first or second round, you missed the whole thing.īut this was a little different. He would return to the ring in 1988 and fought until 1993.Like everybody, he just ‘bop bop’ and they’re just droppin’ to the ground. Thomas never contended for a major title again, and his trainer Angelo Dundee elected to stop training him following his loss. In his next fight Tyson took on and defeated Tucker, becoming the first man since Leon Spinks to be undisputed champion and the first to do it with three world titles. Tyson extended his winning streak to 29 fights. In the co-feature for the vacant IBF championship, Tucker defeated Douglas by knockout in the tenth round to claim the title.įormer champions Greg Page and Tony Tubbs also fought in undercard matches, with Page defeating James Broad and Tubbs defeating Jerry Halstead.

could reach the count of 10, Thomas' trainer Angelo Dundee entered the ring causing Padilla to stop the fight and officially declare the result a technical knockout victory for Tyson.
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Tyson would follow this with a relentless 15-punch combination that dropped Thomas to the canvas for the first time in his professional career. 30 seconds into the second minute, Tyson was able to catch Thomas with a left hook that clearly hurt the challenger. The fight would come to an end with a minute remaining in round 6.
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Thomas was able to rebound and last another four full rounds with Tyson, using his left jab to keep Tyson off-stride while clinching Tyson whenever Tyson came close. With Thomas' back now against the ropes, Tyson delivered an 8-punch combination in an attempt to get the knockout victory, but Thomas was able withstand Tyson's assault and survived the round without being knocked down. With about 40 seconds left in the round, Tyson staggered Thomas with a left hook–right hook combination. Tyson was nearly able to get the victory in the first round. Iron Mike was knocked out by 42-1 underdog Douglas when the pair locked horns. Tyson was the aggressor for nearly the entire fight, constantly getting the better of Thomas with his power punches. JAMES 'BUSTER' DOUGLAS is up for a rematch with Mike Tyson - 30 years on from when the pair first fought. Tucker and James Douglas, the top two contenders, were then paired to fight for the vacant IBF title and the bout was signed for the same night as Tyson vs. However, Spinks elected to pursue a more lucrative fight with former contender Gerry Cooney, and the IBF responded by stripping Spinks of their championship. Meanwhile, as the bout between Tyson and Thomas was signed, another was ordered to settle the IBF championship as reigning champion Michael Spinks, who had entered the tournament as champion and had already defeated Larry Holmes and Steffen Tangstad during its course, was to face challenger Tony Tucker, with the winner meeting either Tyson or Thomas in the final match to unify the titles. To this point in the tournament, which began when Trevor Berbick defeated Thomas to win the WBC title in March of 1986, Tyson had already won two of the three available titles, knocking out Berbick in Berbick’s first title defense later in 1986 and then defeating James "Bonecrusher" Smith by unanimous decision earlier in 1987 to win the WBA title.
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This fight, along with the Tucker-Douglas fight that preceded it and served as the co-main event of the broadcast, were the two penultimate matches in HBO’s Heavyweight World Series this was a tournament devised by the three major world sanctioning bodies, HBO, and promoter Don King to unify the heavyweight championships and crown an undisputed champion. Pinklon Thomas, billed as Hard Road to Glory, was a professional boxing match contested on May 30, 1987, for the WBA and WBC heavyweight championships. Las Vegas Hilton in Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
