{"id":125162,"date":"2025-09-09T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125162\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T12:55:06","slug":"mike-tyson-says-heavyweight-who-took-over-200-of-his-punches-had-the-best-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/125162\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Says Heavyweight Who Took Over 200 Of His Punches Had The Best Chin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heavyweight great \u2018Iron\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/mike-tyson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Tyson<\/a> once revealed which of his over opponents had the best chin.<\/p>\n<p>Tyson entered the paid ranks as an 18-year-old back in 1985, winning his first 19 professional bouts via stoppage which included 12 first round finishes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebsco.com\/research-starters\/sports-and-leisure\/tyson-becomes-youngest-world-heavyweight-boxing-champion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">He became the youngest world heavyweight champion of all time in 1986 when he stopped countryman Trevor Berbick in the 2nd round of their Las Vegas showdown to capture the WBC heavyweight title.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Respective victories over WBA champion James Smith and IBF champion Tony Tucker saw \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 become the undisputed heavyweight champion in 1987, just one month after he turned 21-years-old.<\/p>\n<p>As a ferocious finisher, praise from Tyson on a heavyweight\u2019s chin is noteworthy. In a round of \u2018Best I Faced\u2019 with The Ring Magazine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondsout.com\/topic\/mike-tyson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson<\/a> made no mistake in revealing Jose \u2018El Nino\u2019 Ribalta as the toughest opponent that he ever crossed paths with, as he claims the tough Cuban took \u2018everything\u2019 that he threw at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit Jose Ribalta with everything, and he took everything and kept coming back for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Iron Mike\u2019 faced Ribalta in August of 1986, just a few months before he would become the world heavyweight champion for the first time in that historic victory over Berbick in November of the same year.<\/p>\n<p>Ribalta would prove to be one of the toughest opponents of Tyson\u2019s career up until that point and it wasn\u2019t until the tenth and final round of their clash when \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 was finally able to break \u2018El Nino\u2019 down and get the stoppage victory after knocking him down three times and landing over 220 punches.<\/p>\n<p>The durable Cuban would prove to be a tough test for the majority of the opponents that he faced during his career, sharing the ring with the likes of Larry Holmes and Vitali Klitschko before his retirement in 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Heavyweight great \u2018Iron\u2019 Mike Tyson once revealed which of his over opponents had the best chin. Tyson entered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-125162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}