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Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson born June
30, 1966) is an American former professional boxer. He held the undisputed
world heavyweight championship and holds the record as the youngest boxer to
win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at 20 years, 4 months, and 22 days
old. Tyson won his first 19 professional bouts by knockout, 12 of them in the
first round. He won the WBC title in 1986 after defeating Trevor Berbick by a
TKO in the second round. In 1987, Tyson added the WBA and IBF titles after
defeating James Smith and Tony Tucker. This made him the first heavyweight
boxer to simultaneously hold the WBA, WBC and IBF titles, and the only
heavyweight to successively unify them.
