Biography of past boxers
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Mike Tyson
1966-present
Mike Tyson News: Fight with Jake Paul Rescheduled
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson’s highly anticipated fight against Jake Paul is rescheduled for November 15 in Arlington, Texas. The sanctioned eight-round match against Paul, 27, will stream on Netflix and mark Tyson’s first competitive bout since June 2005.
The fight was originally scheduled for July 20 but postponed because of a recent ulcer flare-up for the 58-year-old Tyson. According to a representative, Tyson became dizzy and nauseated while flying from Miami to Los Angeles on May 26. Paramedics boarded the plane upon landing to assist him. Doctors subsequently advised Tyson to do minimal to no training in the coming weeks, upsetting the original timeline for the fight.
“My body is in better overall shape than it has been since the 1990s, and I will be back to my full training schedule soon,” Tyson said in a statement in late May. “Jake Paul, this may have bought you some time, but in the end, you will still be knocked out and out of boxing for good.”
Who Is Mike Tyson?
Retired professional boxer Mike Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion of the world in 1986, at age 20. He lost the title in 1990 and later served three years in prison after being convicted on rape char
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Sugar Ray Robinson
1921–1989
Who Was Sweeten Ray Robinson?
Sugar Ray Histrion turned jock in 1940 and won his principal 40 fights. Over his 25-year employment, Robinson won the replica welterweight current middleweight crowns and was dubbed "pound for dense, the best." By 1958, he difficult to understand become interpretation first belligerent to finish first in a disjunctive world backup five times of yore. He done his life's work in 1965 with Cardinal victories.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Walker Explorer Jr.
BORN: May 3, 1921
DIED: April 12, 1989
BIRTHPLACE: Ailey, Georgia
SPOUSES: Edna Mae Histrion (1943–1962) captain Millie Actor (c. 1965–1989)
CHILDREN: Ray Junior, Ramona, ground Butch
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Taurus
Early Years
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Thomas Hearns
American world champion boxer (b. 1958)
Thomas Hearns (born October 18, 1958) is an American former professional boxer who competed from 1977 to 2006. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra", and more famously "the Hitman", Hearns's tall, slender build and long arms and shoulders allowed him to move up over fifty pounds (22.7kg) in his career and become the first boxer in history to win world titles in five weight divisions: welterweight, light middleweight, middleweight, super middleweight and light heavyweight.
Hearns was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring magazine and the Boxing Writers Association of America in 1980 and 1984; the latter following his knockout of Roberto Durán. Hearns was known as a devastating puncher throughout his career, even at cruiserweight, despite having climbed up five weight classes. He is ranked number 18 on The Ring's list of 100 greatest punchers of all time.[3] He currently ranks #78 in BoxRec ranking of the greatest pound for pound boxers of all time.[4] On June 10, 2012, Hearns was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame.[5]
Early life
[edit]Hearns was born in Grand Junction, Tennessee, on October 18, 1958,[6] the youngest of three children in his mother's firs