Tyson Raw & Uncut Volume 2 DVD 2010 / ESPN Enterprises / GRD 2979 / Disc 6 of 6 Boxing Set

UPC 5055298029795

REGION 2 PAL DVD

MADE IN THE UK

AUDIO: English  

Total Runtime: 150 minutes

English Summary:

Having made a dramatic entrance to the sport in 1985, winning seventeen fights in under a year, Mike Tyson’s managers faced a difficult question: how can you train a fighter to go the distance, when he keeps knocking his opponents out in the first round? His first year as a professional saw Tyson rarely stretched as few could handle the force of his punches.

Michael Gerard Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1985 to 2005. He reigned as the undisputed world heavyweight champion and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win a heavyweight title, at 20 years, four months, and 22 days old.

Tyson won his first 19 professional fights by knockout, 12 of them in the first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after stopping Trevor Berbick in the second round, and added the WBA and IBF titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker in 1987. This made Tyson the first heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only heavyweight to successively unify them. Tyson became the lineal champion in 1988 when he knocked out Michael Spinks in 91 seconds of the first round. He successfully defended his titles nine times, which included victories over Larry Holmes and Frank Bruno. In 1990, Tyson lost the titles to underdog Buster Douglas, who knocked him out in the tenth round. Attempting to regain the titles, Tyson defeated Donovan Ruddock twice in 1991, but pulled out of a fight with then-undisputed heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield (who had defeated Douglas later in 1990) due to a rib injury.