Sports history has always been glorified to an extent where people of the World have fell for the love of the game and for the players.In the world of Boxing Muhammad Ali ,John Jackson and Mike Tyson are a few such names. Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson , the youngest undisputed heavy weight boxing champion hailed from Catskill, USA. It was at the school that Tyson's emerging boxing ability was discovered by Bobby Stewart, a juvenile detention center counselor and former boxer.Cus D'Amato introduced Tyson to the world of boxing and can surely be credited with the success of Mike.How a 19 year old boy weighing 215 pounds takes the boxing world by storm was to be seen. One after the other he beat Hector Mercedes, Trenton Singleton, Don Halpin, Rick Spain, Joh Alderson, Larry Sims, Lorenzo Canady.Year 1985 saw the rise of tyson to fame, when he went one on one with Michael Johnson and beat him straight in Round 1 in 39 seconds flat.Tyson's next match was against Donnie Long who had a record of 15 wins and only 3 loss out of which there were 10 knockout wins.Tyson beat his 219 pound , 6ft 5 inch opponent in 1 min 39 seconds.
George Freeman a two time WHC champion once said in a BBC interview that he has never seen a man hitting with so much power and precision. tyson's one punch has around 600 N force and is hard to resist for the strongest of opponents.Hector Mercedes was the next man to fight against Tyson on Oct 3 1985 in tyson's first real big time professional fight and as tyson did it in his previous games he won it . By this time Tyson was already in news for some reason or the other. He had teamed up with Jimmy Jacobs and Bill Clayton , his managers, who were so wonderful that they would spend any amount to train him.Tyson continued his winning streak beating Sterling Benjamin and Eddie Richardson.His win against Richardson came in just 77 seconds. This fight was scheduled just after 9 days of his mentor , Cus D'Amato's demise. He loved Cus so much that he would lock himself in a room and cry for hours before the fight.This was the most crucial time of Tyson's career.He was moving with girls, boozing and driving recklessly, but he made sure he returned to train in time and fought each of his fight with more vigour and more tenacity.His behaviour was described as impertinent by his first trainer Teddy Atlas, but who cares till he is fighting and winning.
Tyson was quickly moving towards higher class of opponents and fighting the BIG SHOTS in the ring.His first real fight was against James Quick Tillis which was on 03.05.86 ,but to everyone's surprise, Tyson's skill was in jeopardy and he seemed pretty ordinary.The man who has been knocking down his opponents with one cross and precise jabs looked like a tamed lion in a zoo.Tillis lasted for 10 full rounds.However Tyson never feared anything. Soon after this match, his match against Mitch Green had similar result and Tyson's potential was being doubted.In may 1986 his match was against a formidable opponent Reggie Gross where Tyson made a comeback and beat him in 20 seconds flat.A hathless victim Marvis Frazier who was unbetaen with 27 wins till July 1986 fell prey to Tyson's power .Tyson defeated his powerful opponent Trevor Berbick with his powerful strikes and thus became the youngest WORLD HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION at the age of 20 year 4 month and 22 days.
Tyson was quickly moving towards higher class of opponents and fighting the BIG SHOTS in the ring.His first real fight was against James Quick Tillis which was on 03.05.86 ,but to everyone's surprise, Tyson's skill was in jeopardy and he seemed pretty ordinary.The man who has been knocking down his opponents with one cross and precise jabs looked like a tamed lion in a zoo.Tillis lasted for 10 full rounds.However Tyson never feared anything. Soon after this match, his match against Mitch Green had similar result and Tyson's potential was being doubted.In may 1986 his match was against a formidable opponent Reggie Gross where Tyson made a comeback and beat him in 20 seconds flat.A hathless victim Marvis Frazier who was unbetaen with 27 wins till July 1986 fell prey to Tyson's power .Tyson defeated his powerful opponent Trevor Berbick with his powerful strikes and thus became the youngest WORLD HEAVY WEIGHT CHAMPION at the age of 20 year 4 month and 22 days.
