Mike Tyson
Youngest heavyweight champion in history at 20 and the most feared puncher of his time
Overview
Under his Catskill mentor, Tyson unified the division in the late 1980s with peek a boo head movement and savage combinations. He was unbeaten at 37-0 until Buster Douglas shocked the world in Tokyo in 1990. He regained the WBC and WBA titles in 1996 and finished 50-6 with 44 knockouts, boxing on until 2005 as the biggest draw of his era.
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