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*wikipic*
“SXSW 2011”
‘age 44’
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*born ’30 june 1966’*
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(as of “12 july 2018…)
(“michael gerard tyson’ 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” / “4 months” / “22 days” old)
(‘tyson’ won his first 19 professional fights by ‘knockout’)
(12 of them in the 1ST ROUND!!!)
(he won the ‘WBC’ title in 1986 after stopping ‘trevor berbick’ in 2 rounds, 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)
(why so many different ‘titles’?)
(sounds like a ‘put=on’ to me!)
(cue “don king” as “reverend al”)
(‘tyson’ became the “lineal champion” (aka “the ‘man’ who ‘beat’ the ‘man'”) in 1988 when he knocked out “michael spinks” in 91 seconds of the first round)
(he successfully defended his titles 9 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 10th 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’)
(in 1992, ‘tyson’ was convicted of ‘rape’ and sentenced to “6 years in prison”, but was released on ‘parole’ after serving 3 years)
(after his ‘release’ in ‘1995’, he engaged in a series of ‘comeback fights’)
(he won the ‘WBC’ and ‘WBA’ titles in 1996, after defeating ‘frank bruno’ and ‘bruce seldon’ by ‘knockout’)
(with his defeat of ‘bruno’, ‘tyson’ joined ‘floyd patterson’, ‘muhammad ali’, ‘tim witherspoon’, ‘evander holyfield’, ‘george foreman’ as the only men in ‘boxing history’ to have regained a ‘heavyweight championship’ after having lost it)
(after being stripped of the ‘WBC title’ in the same year, ‘tyson’ lost the ‘WBA title’ to ‘evander holyfield’ by an ’11th-round stoppage’)
(their ‘1997 rematch’ ended when ‘tyson’ was disqualified for biting holyfield’s ‘ears’)
“hows he hearing these days…?”
*:well i heard…!”
mouths running rampant…
*’RUMOR MILL’*
“watch it!”
“don’t,,,”
(in ‘2002’, ‘tyson’ fought for the ‘world heavyweight title’ again at the age of ’35’, losing by knockout to ‘lennox lewis’)
(“8 june 2002”)
(saturday night ‘pay-perview’)
*”the week of my ‘senior prom’ (postparty)”
(blumberg and i ordered the fight in order to lure ‘fellow students’ to come to our HQ since we didn’t have rooms @ the “starlight motel”)
(trying in vain to spend some time with our ‘female peers’ before heading off to ‘college’ that fall)
(they came and went)
(as ‘bassman hooked up with ‘gabby cohen’ on ‘my’ back deck)
(i “came to know her (x) shortly thereafter…”)
(‘tyson’ retired from ‘professional boxing’ in ‘2006’, after being knocked out in consecutive matches against ‘danny williams’ and ‘kevin mcbride’)
(‘tyson’ declared ‘bankruptcy’ in ‘2003’, despite having received over ‘$30 million’ for several of his fights and ‘$300 million’ during his career)
(at the time the ‘media’ reported that he had approximately ‘$23 million’ of ‘debt’)
(“a certain specific kind of ‘rich'”)
(‘tyson’ was well known for his ‘ferocious’ and ‘intimidating’ boxing style as well as his controversial behavior ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ the ‘ring’)
(nicknamed “iron” and “kid dynamite” in his early career (and later known as “the baddest man on the planet”), ‘tyson’ is considered one of the” best heavyweights of ‘all time'”)
(‘tyson’ holds the “3rd longest unified championship reign in ‘heavyweight history'” at “8 consecutive defenses”)
(he currently ranks #15 in BoxRec’s ranking of the “greatest ‘heavyweight boxers’ in history”)
(only #15?!?)
(who was #14?)
(he was ranked #16 on The Ring‘s list of “100 greatest punchers of all time”, and #1 in the ‘ESPN.com’ list of “the hardest hitters in heavyweight history”)
(“sky sports” described him as “perhaps the “most ferocious ‘fighter’ to step into a ‘professional ring'”)
(he has been inducted into the “international boxing hall of fame” + the “world boxing hall of fame”).
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