Mike Tyson

Michael Gerard Tyson (New York, June 30, 1966), better known by Mike Tyson, is an American ex-boxer. Considered by many to be one of the greatest boxing fighters of all time.

Mike Tyson had an early physical development. At 12 years old he weighed more than 80 kg, with well-built muscles for a boy; At 15, he was already a heavyweight fast and knockout; At 18, not even his coach stood; At age 20, became world champion, the youngest heavyweight to achieve this feat.


Obviously there would be consequences for such performance in such a short period of time. So when Tyson turned 30, it was possible to realize that he was also losing his physical strength early on, and his devastating knockout season and world titles came to an end.



Career

Mike Tyson had a difficult childhood after his father left home when he was only two. His youth was marked by the STIB and was hospitalized at age 11 in a reformatory for juvenile delinquents, where he started in boxing, motivated by the director of the institution, who was a former boxer. At the age of thirteen he was discovered by coach Cus D'Amato who became responsible for his career. However, the following year, Mike Tyson went on to be guided by Jan Vojik, he was Olympic medal-world champion at 14 years of age.

In 1981, at age 15, he became boxing youth champion of the United States of America to, in the following year achieve the world title of the same age group. In 1983 he became angry with Atlas and returned to work with Cus D'Amato and was under the guidance of this, who in 1985 gave up his move to professional boxing. Soon in the first year he won the 15 bouts in which he participated, 11 of them by K.O. (Knock-out) in the first round.

In 1986 a month after Cus D'Amato passed away, Tyson definitively imposed himself as champion and became known all over the world. The most important of the year's 13 wins came on November 22 when, defeating Trevor Berbick, he won the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title. At the age of 20, he was the youngest boxer to achieve this feat.

The following year, he also won the world titles of the International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Association and in 1988 won three bouts against renowned boxers. All by K.O. Before the fourth round.

Still in 1988 married the actress and model Robin Givens who, in the following year, requested the divorce. On a television show, he claimed that Tyson was, in his words, manic-depressive. These problems affected the boxer's career, which he only fought twice in 1989, although he has won both challenges. The bad moment was confirmed in 1990 when, on 11 February, it was beaten in Japan by Buster Douglas with K.O. To the tenth round, losing their three world titles.

In 1990 and 1991 he won the four bouts in which he participated and, meanwhile, challenged the new world champion Evander Holyfield, also an American.

In July of 1991 she was part of the jury of the contest Miss America, but was accused of violation by one of the participants. While awaiting trial he continued to train, but was injured and had to postpone the fight with Holyfield.



In March 1992 Mike Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison, but due to good behavior only served half the sentence. He was released from prison in March 1995 and five months later he returned to fight on August 19, 1995 at the MGM Grand Garden to defeat an unknown Irish boxer Peter McNeeley, nicknamed "The Irish Hurricane" in the 89 seconds of the first round . By the victory Tyson received 25 million dollars, and McNeeley took 700 thousand dollars.

In 1996 he returned to fight and win, which led him to challenge Holyfield again. On November 9 of that year the match took place and Holyfield won, but Tyson immediately demanded revenge. The two boxers met again on June 28, 1997 for what came to be called the battle of the century. But 40 seconds from the end of the third round, the unexpected happened: Tyson bit Holyfield's ear, which led to the interruption of the match. Tyson returned to bite the opponent's ear and was eventually disqualified, he said he only did that in response to repeated bounces from Holyfield (in the first clash between the two Mike had also complained about Holyfield's halters ), Generating a fight in the ring between the support teams of the two boxers. Tyson lost the match and was banned for a year from the competition. After completing the punishment the New York boxer returned to fight and win, but already far away in the best way, Mike Tyson became a vegetarian