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Tyson wins via 1st-round KO. Mike Tyson vs. Michael Spinks, billed as Once and For All, [1] was a professional boxing match which took place on June 27, 1988. [2] Both fighters were undefeated and each had a claim to being the legitimate heavyweight champion. At the time, Tyson held the belts of all three of the major sanctioning organizations ...
Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson, billed as Liberation, was a professional boxing match fought on September 7, 1996 for the WBA heavyweight championship. [1] The fight was part of a pay-per-view event produced by Don King Productions and carried on pay-per-view by Showtime . The fight is notable in the fact that in attendance was rapper and actor ...
Setup. Larry Holmes had been the WBC heavyweight champion since 1978, when he beat Ken Norton by a fifteen-round split decision at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Over the course of his illustrious career, on the way to almost tying the great Rocky Marciano's record of 49-0, losing in the 49th fight, a decision to Michael Spinks, fought such fighters as Tim Witherspoon, Earnie Shavers, Mike ...
Premier Boxing Champions ( PBC) is an ongoing series of televised boxing events connected to manager Al Haymon . PBC was initially promoted as an effort to return boxing to mainstream broadcast and cable television, as opposed to premium channels and pay-per-view. The first Premier Boxing Champions card was broadcast by NBC on March 7, 2015 ...
Amazon’s Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions announced a multiyear rights agreement to bring top pay-per-view boxing events to U.S. viewers. Launched in 2015, PBC features over 150 active ...
The 1993 King of the Ring was the inaugural King of the Ring professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) event produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and featured the seventh King of the Ring tournament. It was the first of ten King of the Ring events produced as pay-per-views; an 11th exclusively aired on the company's ...
Roy Levesta Jones Jr. (born January 16, 1969) is an American professional boxer who holds dual American and Russian citizenship. He has held multiple world championships in four weight classes, including titles at middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight, and is the only boxer in history to start his professional career at light middleweight and go on to win a ...
George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) [2] [3] is an American former professional boxer, entrepreneur, minister, and author. In boxing, he competed between 1967 and 1997 and was nicknamed " Big George ". He is a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. As an entrepreneur, he is known for the George Foreman Grill .