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Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson recently admitted during an interview that he's 'never been able to handle being a fighter' and said that is was difficult to overcome fear during his entire pro career.
Jeff Fenech, the former trainer of two-time undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, believes his former boxer - if he trained for six weeks, right now - could knock Deontay Wilder out in a minute.
Former undisputed heavyweight Mike Tyson agrees on one thing - he would lose a fight with one his idols, Muhammad Ali. In recent heavyweight fantasy tournament, which was put together by the World Boxing Super Series, Tyson defeated Ali in the final round to win the entire ball of wax.
Former world champion and veteran trainer Jeff Fenech recently conducted an interview where he reflected back on the day he walked away from heavyweight Mike Tyson, after the boxer got his infamous face tattoo. Fenech had trained Tyson for his 2003 showdown with Clifford Etienne.
Former undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is a big fan of mixed martial arts, but he does not expect their combatants to catch up to boxers in terms of pay. There are countless boxers who earn significantly more money than most of the main event fighters in UFC.
Mike Tyson’s turbulent times as a boxer knew no bounds. The youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history not only wanted to pulverize any person in his path, but the same notion went to any species as well. Tyson — the self-anointed original Tiger King — recently shared his regret and “foolish” days in owning tigers for over 15 years in which he would even let the big cats into his bed so that they’d sleep with him.
IBF, IBO, WBA, WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua is backing Mike Tyson to beat Muhammad Ali in a fantasy clash of heavyweight legends. Recently, the World Boxing Super Series held a fantasy tournament at heavyweight - with several names of the past being involved.
Mike Tyson punctuated his mystique as the Baddest Man on the Planet in the 90s by owning and raising three tigers as pets, going as far as even inviting the tigers to sleep next to him in bed. With the recent release of the hit Netflix series “Tiger King” documenting the underground world of owning and breeding the big cats, Tyson regretted his past days as an owner of a tiger himself.
Capturing an Olympic gold medal is special but overcoming tremendous odds and winning it at home, never mind meeting your future wife, made it extraordinarily special for 1984 Olympic heavyweight champion Henry Tillman.
Mike Tyson was honored in the ring as a heavyweight icon and then proceeded to sit ringside to watch the rematch between Tyson Fury and Deontay Wilder on Feb. 22 in Las Vegas. Tyson said the one-sided victory for the British boxer was a result of Wilder (42-1-1, 41 KOs) failing to show up to the grand occasion against the newly crowned WBC champion Fury (30-0-1, 21 KOs).