Mike Tyson is one of the most fearsome knockout artists of all time but when quizzed on the best puncher that he faced during his professional career, \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 provided a definitive response.<\/p>\n
Tyson shared the ring with a number of legendary fighters<\/a> but he is best known for his captivating rise toward and retention of the heavyweight world title, which we won at the record-breaking age of 20 years old and defended on nine occasions.<\/p>\n A famous defeat to Buster Douglas ended that reign but Tyson got his hands on world honours for a second time when he halted Frank Bruno six years later, only for Evander Holyfield to intervene and dethrone Tyson once again.<\/p>\n During his Ring Magazine<\/a> \u2018Best I Faced\u2019 feature, \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike named Holyfield as the best and biggest punching opponent of his career, despite \u2018The Real Deal\u2019 originally campaigning as a cruiserweight and Tyson suffering bruising stoppages to the likes of Lennox Lewis and Douglas.<\/p>\n \u201cHolyfield [was the biggest puncher]: He threw terrific shots with both hands and with bad intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n Tyson and Holyfield rematched in 1997, where Tyson was disqualified for biting the ear of his rival in one of the most infamous moments in boxing history.<\/p>\n The Alabama-born champion would then go on to make two further defences of the heavyweight titles, including a unification with IBF champion Michael Moorer, until a draw and eventual defeat to Lennox Lewis cost him his belts. When all was said and done for Holyfield, he hung up the gloves with 29 knockouts from 44 wins.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson is one of the most fearsome knockout artists of all time but when quizzed on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":["post-385398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}