Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson
(born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a
former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the
record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight
titles; he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old. Tyson won his first
19 professional bouts by knockout, with 12 of them occurring in the
first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick
by a TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF
titles after defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. He was the first
heavyweight boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles,
and the only heavyweight to individually unify them.
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