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"The Baddest Man on the Planet" reinvigorated the sport when he burst onto the scene in and to this day remains the youngest heavyweight world champion in history at years-old.
Mike Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion and the youngest world boxing world champion in the history of the sport at He is regarded as one of the greatest fighters of all time.
Bursting onto the heavyweight scene aged just 18, Tyson quickly gained a fearsome reputation as a knockout specialist.
At the start of his career, the Brooklyn-born fighter was supported by coach and father-figure Cus D'Amato - the Hall of Fame trainer, who allowed Tyson to live with him from the age of 14 and later adopted him, is credited with harnessing Tyson's aggressive boxing style.
D'Amato suddenly died of pneumonia aged 77 in November , one year before Tyson became WBC world champion with victory over Trevor Berbick, a win he dedicated to his former trainer.
Tyson paid for D'Amato's funeral
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Mike Tyson: Memories of a magnificent fighting machine
While Liston's "frightening sense of evil" was too pungent for many in the more innocent early '60s, contemporary boxing fans couldn't get enough of Tyson. A 5ft 11in, lb, bull-necked slab of badness who kept pigeons. Quite wonderful.
Remarkably, at least by today's standards, Tyson had fought 12 times in before landing a shot at Berbick's WBC title in Las Vegas. The fight was part of an elimination tournament, designed to unify the three main world title belts, and Berbick sounded confident of victory: "I'm going to take him to school. I'm very relaxed. This is the best thing that's ever happened to me."
It didn't look like Tyson was learning much, as he wailed away on Berbick with crosses and hooks. Berbick didn't look relaxed when a Tyson right grabb sent him crashing to the canvas. And it didn't look like the best thing to have happened to Berbick,
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Mike Tyson's conviction for the rape of Desiree Washington takes center stage in the final episode of Mike Tyson: The Knockout, a two-part ABC documentary, airing tonight (June 1).
Tyson's defense attorney James Voyles and special prosecutor Greg Garrison are among the interviewees delving into the case, which remains one of the most discussed celebrity trials in U.S. history.
The former heavyweight mästare of the world was arrested in July , after Washington accused him of raping her in his room at the Canterbury Hotel in Indianapolis.
Washington, who at the time was a college student and the reigning Miss Black Rhode Island, was in town to attend the Miss Black America pageant. She had met Tyson, one of the celebrities invited to the event, when he had attended the show's rehearsal.
A day later, on July 20, , she checked into the emergency room at Methodist Hospital and reported that she had been raped.
Washington told the police and subsequently testified in court that Ty