Mike Tyson: Why Tyson Truly Deserves His Hall of Fame Induction
By on June 11, 2011
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Mike Tyson Truly Deserves His Hall of Fame Induction
When most people think of Mike Tyson, they either think of his out of the ring problems or his appearances in movies like Hangover.
It is odd to see a whole new generation of kids coming up who don’t remember Tyson and his unbelievable ability to knock almost anybody out.
Even if people do remember Tyson’s boxing, they think of the Holyfield ear biting incident and his epic loss to Buster Douglas in 1990, but Tyson was so much more than that.
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Tyson started his career with 19 straight knockouts, and was one of the most dominant punchers that ever lived. Before the loss to Douglas, Tyson won his first 37 professional fights, with 33 coming by knockout.
The buster Douglas loss set Tyson back, but not as far back as his four year prison sentence set him back. Even after four years away from the sport of boxing, Tyson came back to win nine more fights before eventually calling it a career after a loss to Kevin McBride.
Between his 50-6-2 career record and his knockout power, Tyson will always be remembered as one of the best fighters the sport had ever seen, and for that period of time from his first fight until his jail time, there was no better fighter in the world.
Tyson deserves this honor of being inducted into the Boxing Hall of Fame, and his amazing highlight video will backup anything and everything I have said here.
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