Mike Tyson
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| Mike Tyson | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mike Tyson | ||
| Ringkasan karir | ||
| Lahir | 30 Juni 1966 | |
| Meninggal | ||
| Jumlah pertandingan | 57 (2 tanpa keputusan) | |
| Menang | 50 | |
| Kalah | 5 | |
| Banding | 0 | |
| KO | 44 | |
| Gelar-gelar | Kelas Berat
(WBA, WBC, IBF, WBO) | |
Michael Gerard Tyson (lahir 30 Juni 1966, New York City, Amerika Serikat) adalah petinju profesional dan mantan juara kelas Berat. Karirnya yang sangat menjanjikan terhambat oleh berbagai kasus kriminal.
Masa muda
Dilahirkan di New York City, Tyson adalah salah seorang petinju paling maut. Ia keluar masuk penjara anak-anak dan dikeluarkan dari sekolah. Ia kemudian ditarik keluar dari sekolah anak nakal oleh pelatih tinju Cus D'Amato karena ia melihat potensi dalam dirinya.
Karir tinju
Dalam sekejap menjadi bintang tenar
Mike Tyson bertanding secara profesional pertama kali pada tanggal 6 Maret 1985 di Albany, New York. Ia menang di ronde pertama. Ia kemudian bertinju 15 kali lagi di 1985, memenangkan semua pertandingan dengan knockout, dan hampir semuanya di ronde pertama. Ia bertanding 12 kali di 1986, melejit dalam peringkat para petinju dan menarik perhatian media massa. Pada tanggal 22 November 1986 Tyson mendapat kesempatan pertama untuk meraih gelar, melawan Trevor Berbick untuk kelas Berat WBC. Dua ronde kemudian, pada usia 20, Tyson menjadi juara kelas Berat termuda di dunia. Karirnya sampai pada saat ini sering disamakan oleh banyak kritikus dengan karir Joe Louis.
Di tahun 1987, Tyson mempertahankan gelar melawan James 'Bonecrusher' Smith pada tanggal 7 Maret di Las Vegas, Nevada. Ia menang angka dan menambahkan gelar WBA dari Smith ke koleksinya. 'Tyson mania' meledak di media massa. Ia mengalahkan Pinklon Thomas di bulan Mei dengan KO pada ronde keenam. Pada tanggal 1 Agustus ia merebut gelar IBF dari Tony Tucker dengan menang angka untuk menjadi "undisputed heavyweight champion of the world". Setelah itu ia hanya bertinju sekali lagi di 1987 melawan juara Olimpiade 1984 Tyrell Biggs di bulan Oktober, menang KO di ronde ketujuh.
Tyson bertanding tiga kali di 1988, melawan Larry Holmes pada 22 Januari dengan kemenangan TKO ronde keempat; melawan Tony Tubbs di Tokyo di bulan Maret, KO ronde kedua; melawan Michael Spinks pada 27 Juni, KO setelah 90 detik.
Kontroversi
Tapi masalah-masalah pribadi Tyson juga diekspos oleh pers. Pernikahannya dengan Robin Givens menuju pada perceraian, kontraknya diliciki oleh Don King dan Bill Cayton. Selama 1989, Tyson hanya bertanding dua kali: melawan Frank Bruno di mana ia menang di ronde kelima dan melawan Carl Williams di bulan Juli dengan KO di ronde pertama.
By 1990 Tyson had lost direction, his personal life was in disarray and he was not training well. In a fight on February 11 with the little regarded James 'Buster' Douglas he lost to a tenth round KO and despite the protests of his manager over a 'slow count' in the eighth round Tyson lost all his belts to Douglas. Tyson's two other fights in 1990 were confidence regaining first round KOs.
In 1991 Tyson fought Donovan "Razor" Ruddock twice, once in March and again in June. These fights were notable because of Tyson's bizarre "jailhouse" talk towards his opponent. He told Ruddock, "Everyone knows you're a transvestite and you love me. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend. I can't wait to get my hands on a pretty thing like you". There was some controversy over the first fight which Tyson won in the seventh round but at the second fight, which Tyson fought while waiting for a match against the new champion Evander Holyfield, Tyson won on points.
Rape, prison and aftermath
Tyson went on trial in Indiana charged with the rape of a 1991 Miss Black America Contest contestant named Desiree Washington on January 27, 1992 Tyson was found guilty of the rape on February 10 and imprisoned for 3 years. (Under Indiana law, a defendant convicted of a felony must begin serving his prison sentence immediately after the sentence is imposed) As a result, Tyson did not fight again until 1995.
As a Get-out-of-jail opener he won within one round against Peter McNeeley in August and beat Buster Mathis Jr. in three in December, 1995. In March, 1996 Tyson regained one belt, winning the WBC title from a lumbering Frank Bruno in three rounds. In September, 1996 Tyson won back the WBA in 93 seconds from Bruce Seldon, having paid Lennox Lewis $4 million dollars to 'step-aside'. Tyson was criticized by many for fighting such inferior opposition. For example, it was pointed out that McNeeleys "opponents" had lost almost three fourths of their fights. Mathis was a mediocre, light hitting puncher whose only claim to fame was that his father had also been a boxer who fought Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. Seldon was subjected to much ridicule for his first round loss to Tyson because he seemed to go down and out from a very light punch. Many accused him of being so scared he just gave up.
The Holyfield fights
On November 9, 1996 however he faced a tougher challenge in Evander Holyfield, fighting over eleven rounds. Holyfield won with a TKO to become a three-time world champion.
Tyson did not fight again until June of 1997 when there was a hugely anticipated rematch with Holyfield on June 28 for the WBA title. Tyson was disqualified in the third round, when, after losing his temper over a head-butt from Holyfield and coming out without his gum-shield, he bit a chunk from Holyfield's ear. When the referee, Mills Lane, warned him, Tyson went for Holyfield's other ear. On July 9 Tyson was banned from boxing for one year and fined $3 million.
Decline
In January 1999 Tyson fought the South African Frans Botha and while Botha initially controlled the fight Tyson landed a single good punch in round five that put Botha down. On February 5 Tyson was sentenced to a year's imprisonment, fined $5,000, and ordered to serve 2 years probation and perform 200 hours of community service for the August 31, 1998 assault on two people after a car accident. He served nine months of that sentence. On his release he fought Orlin Norris in October, where in a farcical scene Norris claimed to have twisted his ankle in the first round and refused to fight on.
In 2000 Tyson had three fights. The first was staged in England and against Julius Francis, although some fans considered the pre-fight arguments about whether Tyson should be allowed into the country more entertaining than the second round KO of Francis. He also fought Lou Savarese in June in Glasgow, winning in the first round, and in October the notoriously dirty Andrew Golota, winning in round three, a result that was changed to no-contest after Tyson failed a fight-related drug test. Tyson fought only once in 2001 beating Brian Nielsen in Copenhagen with a seventh round TKO.
Tyson sought to fight Lennox Lewis in 2002 in Nevada, but the Nevada boxing commission refused him a license to box as he was facing possible sexual assault charges. Tyson's remarks to Lewis were more vicious than anything he had ever said before. "I want to eat you heart and then eat your children" he screamed. A scuffle at a press conference finally removed any chance of a Nevada fight. The fight actually occurred in June in Memphis, Tennessee. Tyson lost in the eighth round by knockout.
On February 22, 2003, Tyson beat fringe contender Clifford Etienne 49 seconds into round one, once again in Memphis. The pre-fight was marred by rumours of Tyson's lack of fitness and that he took time out from training to party in Las Vegas and have a new facial tattoo.
Hitting rock bottom
In August 2003, after years of financial struggles, Tyson finally filed for bankruptcy. His bank account has been said to have a total of only 5,000 dollars. Amid all his economic troubles, he was named by Ring Magazine at number 16 among all time best hitters in boxing history in 2003.
On July 31, 2004 Tyson faced the unregarded Englishman Danny Williams in another 'come-back' fight staged in Louisville, Kentucky. Tyson dominated the opening two rounds. The third round was more even, with Williams getting in some clean blows and also a few illegal ones, for which he was penalized. In the fourth round Tyson was surprisingly knocked out. He was trying to fight on one leg due to a torn ligament in his leg. Williams put in over twenty unanswered punches although Tyson didn't seem to be hurt by any of the punches. He just seemed to be off balance and when he was knocked down, he didn't try to get back up. This was Tyson's fifth career defeat. Tyson tore the ligament in his knee during the first round. He underwent surgery four days after the fight. His manager Shelly Finkel claimed that Tyson was unable to throw meaningful right hands after the knee injury.
Trivia
Youngest heavyweight world champ ever at age 20.
Tyson's record stands at 50 wins, 5 losses and 2 no contests, with 44 knockout wins.
In 1987, at a party, famous philosopher A.J. Ayer found Mike Tyson harassing Naomi Campbell and demanded Tyson stop. Tyson said "Do you know who the fuck I am? I'm the heavyweight champion of the world." Ayer replied "And I am the former Wykeham Professor of Logic!. We are both pre-eminent in our field; I suggest that we talk about this like rational men."
In 1989 Mike was awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award. Mike Tyson added to his record one damaged car in Scottsdale, Arizona --after a night of drinking and was arrested. Tyson is training for a fight in March.
Mike was the special enforcer for a WWF match at WrestleMania XIV on March 29, 1998 in which he pretended to be a member of D-Generation X and ended up punching out Shawn Michaels and making the 3 count for Stone Cold Steve Austin to win the WWF Championship from Michaels.
Cameos and parodies
- In The Simpsons, boxer (and convicted felon) "Drederick Tatum" is clearly modeled on Mike Tyson.
- In 1987, Nintendo released Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, an NES game based on the arcade game "Punch Out!!", although there was later a version released in 1990 that replaced Mike Tyson with a fictional character, "Mr. Dream" after Nintendo's license with Mike Tyson expired. It is considered to be one of the best games released for the NES, and is highly regarded to this day.
- In the Japanese version of Capcom's Street Fighter II series, Balrog is called Mike Bison, as a parody of Mike Tyson, possibly called with a full name of "Michael Gerard Bison." Capcom USA switched the names of the Shadaloo Grandmasters around for the American versions in order to avoid a potential lawsuit from Mike Tyson. The character originally named Balrog was renamed Vega. The character originally named Vega was renamed M. Bison.
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