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This Simple Move Helped Mike Tyson Break His Opponent’s Jaw, Rib, Back, and Eye Socket in Two Rounds

Published 06/04/2022, 1:30 PM EDT

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Mike Tyson, over his decades-long career in boxing, has truly lived up to the name ‘The Baddest Man on Earth.’ Having turned pro, Tyson steamrolled eleven opponents, nine by vicious KOs, and won the World Heavyweight Title by the time he was only 20 years old. Starting from 1985 to 2005, Mike Tyson had 56 professional matches.

He lost only six of these fights and, impressively, won the rest of the bouts. Furthermore, 74.6% of his stunning victories arrived via knockouts.

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In a recent episode of ‘Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson’, unified super bantamweight world champion Stephen Fulton Jr. joined the former heavyweight champ. During their conversation, Futon Jr. asked Tyson about his toughest opponent and the former’s habit of smoking. In answer to Futon’s first question, this is what Kid Dynamite told:

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“Me, that’s been my toughest fight. You know Ruddock and Holyfield, they’re great fighters, and what’s the other guy? There’s a lot of great fighters, therefore, but, Lennox Lewis, it’s a lot of great fights. I look at some of my losses, that’s my best fights too.”

But what Tyson said about smoking, let us find out.

Mike Tyson once smoked prior to breaking his opponent

Stephen Fulton Jr. at one point in their conversation brought light to Mike Tyson‘s smoking habit. What Tyson revealed after that blew everyone’s head. Taking the air to himself, Kid Dynamite reminisced about a fight where he literally broke his opponent’s body parts.

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Interestingly, and to add to the shock, the following is what he told: “I had that, what’s that they had something with park. Celebration with two bucks, 97/98, and I started smoking again. I wish I was smoking when I was fighting. Because I smoked once when I fought and I broke the nig**s eye socket, his rib, his back, his fu#king jawbone, nose.”

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Undoubtedly, that was painful for Tyson’s unfortunate opponent.

Who is Tyson talking about, though?

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The fight ‘Iron’ is talking about is Mike Tyson vs. Andrew Golota. That event took place on October 20 in the year 2000. Tyson arrived with a professional record of 48 wins and only 3 losses. Whereas Andrew Golota, a year younger than Tyson, arrived with a record of 36 wins and 4 losses.

As the bell rang, Tyson relentlessly started pouring in on Golota. Although Golota managed to survive the first two rounds, he refused to go back in for the third. As a result, the referee called a halt and declared Tyson the winner via a No Contest.

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Samrat Sardar

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Samrat Sardar is a Boxing writer at EssentiallySports and is currently a final year undergraduate student of English literature. A passionate content creator, he has been writing since his high school days, and possesses work experience as a commercial writer for companies such as WordsKraft among others. Samrat believes he fell in love with boxing the day he watched Vasiliy Lomachenko share the ring with Guillermo Rigondeaux.
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Vibhanshu Kumar