He was on January 2, 1988 at the Atlantic City Congress Center, New Jersey. Holmes was 48-2 and young Tyson, 32-0, stood in his corner.
Holmes just came down, losing a couple of fights with a lightweight champion in Michael Spinks. After the first fight, he noted, “Marciano couldn’t wear my belly strap” after he first lost his victory from the appropriate Marcian record 49-0 instead of compliments the new champion Spinks.
Muhammad but also future President Donald J. Trump were on the ring. When Ali was introduced to the ring, he first touched Holmes gloves.
Then Ali approached the young champion Mike Tyson and whispered something into his ear. He later said, he said, “Put the ass!”
Tyson came out immediately after Holmes, because his former champion’s power looked at the fear of the power he had young Tyson. Holmes tried to tie Tyson, he knew what kind of struggle he had on his hands.
As every round passed, Tyson continued to beat the former champion. In the third round, Holmes began to dance and stretch out his stitch as he was known in the past. That did not change the young Tyson, who walked past the stitch, landing the blows to the satisfaction of the crowd.
In the fourth round, Tyson landed his right hand, and down Holmes went to the canvas while Judge Joe Cortez numbered up to eight. Holmes stood up with a glance of a beaten fighter. Tyson was over him again, lowering Holmes a second time with his right hand. Tyson was via Holmes, throwing him the third and last time on his chin for his chin as Holmes lay on his back, counting at 2:58 rounds!
Tyson responded to the request of his idol, but.
In Tyson’s previous fight, he stopped Olympic champion Tyrell Biggs, who was afraid of Tyson in amateurs. He stopped at 2:59 seventh round in the Congress Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
When Tyson was 14 but visited his school and remembered when Holmes beat his idol. He told his then coach, Cus d’Amato, “One day I will take revenge on that beating when I am older.”
After fighting Holmes, Tyson said, “It’s great to have the Holmes name on my record,” when Larry Merchant interviewed.
In Tyson’s fight in November 1986 at the Hilton Hotel in Las Vegas, he stopped another fighter who beat Ali in the last fight of the former champion, Trevor Berbick, 31-4-1, in the second round, reaching a couple of Knockdowns.
Tyson’s coach at the time was Kevin Rooney, whom many felt when Tyson released him, the champion was never the same.
Many fighters reject their coaches when they lose their altercation. In February 1990, Tyson, 37-0, lost to James ‘Buster’ Douglas, 28-4-1, in Tokyo in Japan, in one of the greatest upsets in boxing history.
Tyson never got the opportunity to removal, because the former Olympic champion of Evanger ‘The Real Deal’ Holyfield got the opportunity and beat Douglas in October 1990.
In the next Tyson fight at the Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada. He avenged his loss with Amatera Henry Tillman, 20-4, which he lost in Olympic trials.
Last time updated 02.05.2025
