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Mike Tyson vs. Marvis Frazier

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Tyson had been keeping busy throughout the first two years of his professional career. Entering 1986, he had fought a total of fifteen fights and won each one by knockout, with only one lasting longer than three rounds and eleven ending in the first round. Prior to fighting Frazier, Tyson had fought
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Tyson quickly had Frazier on the defensive, using his left jab to back Frazier into the ropes. Frazier then retreated to the corner where Tyson continued to use his left jab before unleashing two consecutive uppercuts, the second of which knocked Frazier unconscious. Tyson then landed several more
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began to count to ten, but as Frazier was clearly unresponsive, stopped the count at five and ended the fight. The fight lasted only 30 seconds, and was the quickest victory of Tyson's professional career.
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on November 25, 1983. in a bout that was not recognized as a title fight by the WBC. Holmes, who would later be stripped by the WBC for accepting this fight over a mandatory defense against
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Frazier, meanwhile, only fought three more times after Tyson knocked him out. After his last fight in 1988, Frazier became a minister and began working with prisoners through
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Tyson won the fight via knockout in the first round, attaining victory within thirty seconds. This would prove to be the fastest knockout victory of Tyson’s career.
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three weeks after that. He won both of those fights by knockout, with Ribalta lasting until the tenth round and Ratliff the second, setting up his contest against
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Following his loss to Holmes, Frazier rebounded to win his next six fights, including unanimous decision victories over Tillis and future world champion
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by disqualification, but the fight result was changed to a knockout. Entering this fight, Tyson was rated #2 in the World Boxing Council’s ratings.
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was a professional boxing match contested on July 26, 1986. The fight took place at the Glens Falls Civic Center in Glens Falls, New York, USA.
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nine times in 1986 and defeated all but two fighters by knockout, as former championship challenger
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Tyson continued his blistering pace after this fight, taking a fight against
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blows before Frazier fell to the canvas, slumped against the ropes. Referee
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had taken him to decision victories; he also had initially defeated
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and became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history.
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less than a month after fighting Frazier and then facing
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Civic Center
Glens Falls, New York
United States
United States
Catskill, New York
Wyncote, Pennsylvania
KO
Mike Tyson
Marvis Frazier
ABC
Wide World of Sports
Jim Lampley
Alex Wallau
James Tillis
Mitch Green
Jesse Ferguson
Joe Frazier
Larry Holmes
Greg Page
James "Bonecrusher" Smith
Joe Cortez
Jose Ribalta
Alfonzo Ratliff
Trevor Berbick
made history
Prison Fellowship International
Son of Frazier
Holmes Stops Frazier in First
For Marvis Frazier, Does Father Know Best?

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