🥊 Boxing · Heavyweight

Mike Tyson

United States · 1985–2005

Youngest heavyweight champion in history, at twenty.

50–6
Record: 44
Knockouts: 20 years 4 months
Champion at: 17
First-round KOs

Career

Tyson was short for a heavyweight and used a bobbing, weaving style to get inside and generate power from close range. He unified the heavyweight titles by twenty-one, and his early fights are notable for how few of them lasted more than two rounds.

Honours

Youngest world heavyweight champion in history
Unified the WBA, WBC and IBF heavyweight titles
Won his first nineteen professional fights by knockout
Twelve successful heavyweight title defences

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