I was 8 when this fight happened. My older brother got my dad tickets to watch the fight on the big screen at the Superdome a couple hours away in New Orleans. I still remember my dad talking about how he missed the whole fight: reached to pick up his beer and missed the first knockdown, reached to put his beer down and missed the second knockdown.
I have pretty much the same story except I was 7 I just remember shortly after that fight is when pay per view started charging by the round no longer 59.99 flat rate because Tyson just kept destroying these guys in the first round lol
There are no fighters as elusive and defensive as Mike was in his prime while still being aggressive and explosive in power. He had the perfect combination of skills. I believe he could have defeated any of the greats in his prime.
No kidding I work at 3am everyday and it’s amazing how often I just randomly wake up two minutes before my alarm goes off. I’d say more often than not I do
Mike Tyson was just too fast and powerful for Spinks. You can see Spinks couldn't maneuver around or even block Tyson punches on time because they were so hard and quick with accuracy.
I used to play a game at work called "Would You?" and it was about what we would do for a certain amount of money, such as, "I just shat in my panties".
This version of Mike Tyson that you're watching against Michael Spinks, is Mike Tyson at his very peak. From the opening when bounces out from the corner, he was absolutely flawless in this fight.
Thanks to all that Cus had instilled in him prior to his death. Without Cus, Tyson never winds up winning, and is probably in prison his entire adult life.
@@HunteR1199 Yeah, I consider the 86' Tyson on his way to the title to be his absolute peak. He was feeling it in some fights more than others, but he was an animal during his Frazier bout.
This was also his last fight at his peak. He started to cut corners after this. Michael Spinks fight was the last one with Kevin in his corner. No one could reach Mike anymore for the rest of his career.
@@user-03-gsa3 Modern Wrestlers (and Nascar drivers) train their neck differently to avoid the problems the older roman techniques caused. Currently they have use bands wrapped around the side of their heads.
Tyson was NUTS!!! not mentally....not really....seems like a nice guy actually. But what he had....no one else did. His signature combo, he'd sneak up hit you about 5 times with what sounded like gunshots, and then he was gone. It's why some many fights started and ended so fast. Only a few looked like they knew what to do with him. he was smaller, faster, stronger by a mile and his technique didn't let you throw power at him. It was a marvel to watch and I doubt in my time I'll see the likes of Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan again! It is hard to tell my kids what a monster he was. SO FAST,,,and man....hit like THANOS!!
Indeed. Mike woke up and had a glass of coke. He then ate a brick of cocaine for breakfast. Then two hours working out, followed by a snort of coke for post workout. Then after recovery from the training, another glass of coke to wash everything down. Repeating that routine day after day is indeed amazing!
If Mike Tyson never went to prison and struggled with drug addiction afterwards he wouldn't lose his motivation and would most likely retire undefeated. A big what if.
I personally believe he would have been untouchable at least until the late 90s…don king and that coke ruined what should have been the greatest career of all time
If Cus D'Amato had only been 12-15 years younger and had been able to train/manage Tyson throughout his career, he'd have finished 60-0 (unless he ended up trying to hang on too long and absorbing some losses when he was way past his prime).
Also don't forget that by the insistence of Don King, Mike fired Kevin Rooney, a man that had been a great part of Mike's success and someone who had been trained under Cus, i think if Kevin Rooney had been with Mike his career would've been much brighter, but Don King had to ruin it for everyone.
Most likely not. He was obliterated @ the age of 23 in 1990 prior to going to prison. It was only a matter of time before Holyfield and Lewis. Mike's legacy is tarnished a bit not having faced Ike Bowe Tua Foreman Mercer McCall Moorer Morrison Cooper or even Toney towards the very end.
this channel has quickly become one of my favorite. this channel is able to recap the career of mike tyson in such an entertaining and informative fashion ; not just about tyson but also about his opponents and how their carrers play out afterwards. great content! 🔔✅
When Tyson fought Eddie Richardson and knocked him out in the first round, an announcer asked Richardson if he had ever been beaten harder than Tyson beat him, he said "Yes, about a year ago, I was hit by a truck" That pretty much sums It up, THX BLTV. 🥊 👍 Subbed.
By the way, Spinks considered endurance his main weapon against Tyson. That's why before the fight he actively insisted on 15 rounds instead of the standard 12.
I'm sure 15 rounds was common for champions fights back then. I seem to remember it getting cut to 12 rounds in the nineties. Though I'm far from an expert on boxing history
@@ruledtrendy5066 Yeah, the 15 round fights faded out in the late 70's and early 80's after several deaths. I think the last 15 round fight at all was in 1987.
Regardless of what fans say nowadays, this fight was the biggest event in boxing since the Thrilla in Manila. Both undefeated and had a claim to the heavyweight title.
I feel like Cus/Rooney Mike was the ultimate boxing specimen. Perfect mix of natural talent, physical gifts, killer instinct and a work ethic and dedication to match, plus that intimidation factor. In his prime he showed that the best heavyweight boxers of the era couldn't even stand up to him, some by a long margin. Had he remained focused I believe he would've been the top dog for a very long time
There was no greater luxury in Mike Tyson's early life than men he respected who were brave enough to tell him "no". Hard to come by those when you can beat the living shit out of any man on the planet.
More like steroid city: it was in the earliest era where there were no tests but stuff would have become available, especially to a mad scientists like Cus and you see Tyson looking like a 30 year old at age 18. Dude was on the gear for sure
All of the guys that he fought, early in his career, from 1986, when he won the WBC title against Trevor Berbick, until February 1990, when he was knocked out by Buster Douglas, were a group of mediocre ex-champions, overhyped fringe contenders, and fighters who never fulfilled what little promise they had. i.e. Tyrell Biggs and Carl Williams I'm sorry, but knockouts of Trevor Berbick, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tubbs, and little Michael Spinks just aren't that impressive.
I still have this fight on a JVC VHS cassette from June 1988. I’ve watched it over and over so many times. I still remember Michael Spinks arriving in the ring to Kenny Loggins song, *_”This is it!”_* How sadly prophetic it proved to be.
he looked fucking RIGHTFULLY terrified walking in there his body language screamed get me the f out of here but..he still went in there so respect ..i love this channel mike is my idol i got to talk w him 4-17-12 for 30 whole minutes it was awesome even got to show him my peekaboo and d-shift ability and he said you must of practiced along time then tightened me up a bit..it was absolutely AWESOME most humble figure i ever met
I remember watching this as a kid. My dad and his friend bought a Pay-Per-View for this and it was over in no time. He was so mad lol, but man, what a moment in history to witness.
That night Tyson was the best HW ever. No one would have stopped him. NO ONE. All those years of relentless training and sacrifice culminated that one night. Unbelievable.
Mike Tyson is a legend. Not just as the toughest man to enter into the ring, but for all the mental turmoil he had to fight before ever entering the ring. 100% Respect!
I dunno. I was 12 when he first won the title, and I was there for all of the hype around him. But let's be honest, when he was young and knocking all of those guys out, who did he really fight, and beat?? I can list them off for you - Trevor Berbick, Bonecrusher Smith, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, a 38-year-old Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, and Carl Williams. Besides old man Holmes, all of those guys were Has Beens or Never Wases. They were what we might call 'Also Rans.' And finally, when Tyson began fighting again, at the age of 29 - hardly past his prime, as people like to insinuate - the heavyweight division was full of excellent young fighters, and guys who were on the cusp when Tyson went to prison. Even though his fans say he was past his prime, in the 90s, that's when he finally fought and beat his most impressive opponents, such as Bruce Seldon, Shannon Briggs, Andrew Golota, Francois Botha, etc. But, when the money was finally on the table for Tyson, and he had to go up against fighters who were of his caliber, or better, he got knocked out. Evander Holyfield took all that Tyson could dish out, for 10 rounds, and finally put Tyson's lights out, with a straight right hand, in the 11th round. And then there was the fight with Lennox Lewis, in 2002. I remember all of the fanboys saying that Tyson was going to destroy him; but at the time, I knew that Tyson didn't stand a chance. Lennox Lewis was 6'5," weighed 235+ and had a right cross that could knock opponents into next week. He's the hardest puncher that I ever saw, and I knew that he was going to embarass Tyson, prior to that fight. It was like George Foreman versus Joe Frazier all over again. Tysons fans like to say that Lewis ducked Tyson, until Tyson was past his prime - neither argument carries any weight - because Lewis was busy fighting everyone who was around, at the time (he literally fought them all, except Bowe, who was terrified of him), and when Lewis and Tyson finally did meet, Lewis was 37, and Tyson was 36. So, it could just as easily be said that Tyson ducked Lewis, until Lewis was almost 40. Both assertions are nonsense.
You're spot on. He never beat a top-tier boxer. Spinks was a lightheavy who wasn't up for it. Holmes was a fat old man. Tyson only fought journeymen and second-raters. He dodged Lewis and Bowe in the 90s and only fought Holyfield bc he was more his size as an ex-LH/cruiserweight (and lost twice). And that's all before anabolic steroids are mentioned: see Ben Johnson's explosiveness. He eventually fought Lewis but that was bc he'd been cleaned out by King - and then he got humiliated in the ring@@MatewanMassacre
This was the absolute highlight of Tyson's career. Everything that made Tyson himself was shown in this fight. Speed, technique, combos, intimitadion. Spinks really had no chance to win.
None at all. At the time this was hyped as "SuperFight "88." It's hard, now, to believe that any serious boxing fan ever fell for that hype. That fight was over when Tyson hit him with the body shot. As far that the ghost right hand that knocked Spinks out, I think he took a dive at that point. He didn't want any more.
Spinks was and awesome fighter. His demolition of Gerry Cooney and wins over Larry Holmes proved that. For Tyson to win in such a way was a great victory
Tyson was on the top of the world after this win--but then came the long layoff of eight months till he fought Bruno. Remember, this was his third fight in 1988 after four fights in 1987.
When I was a kid, sometimes on a Sunday morning live boxing would come on instead of the cartoons I was looking forward to. I used to love seeing Tyson come into the ring because I knew I wouldn't have to wait long to see the cartoons
I remember watching this live. He was such a force at that time that the biggest question was always whether the opponent could get through the first round.
I love that man for taking Mike into his family and doing everything he did for Mike. If the rest of the world was like him I can only imagine how much better this world would be. He was a good person ❤
I truly believe that the Mike Tyson who showed up on this night, full of focused rage at the peak of this power, would have beaten any heavyweight who ever lived or who was ever going to live. Too bad we never saw that guy again.
You can't help but to admire and respect these guys. They do the thing most of us can only dream of. Fighters are both a breed apart, and a breed unto themselves. Big Props!!! What say to that America? Peace and blessings to ALL!!!
Getting into the ring with Mike Tyson then was like stepping into a room with a nuclear reactor, feels like at any moment it will explode and wipe out everyone.
I remember that night as if if happened yesterday. I paid big bucks to watch at a sports bar. I took a sip of beer and it was over, just that fast. I had to see it on replay.
I remember watching this live as a teenager. Tyson was a superhero. I can recall with perfect clarity, even at that age, recognizing the sheer terror pouring off Spinks minutes before the bell even rang. He was terrified. Never seen anything like that since.
It's so fascinating to better understand Tyson's opponents of back in the day. I was just a baby in the 80s when he was knocking guys left and right, and the BLTV videos have helped me better understand who they were and how many were actually great fighters with amazing careers until they went against Tyson and he made them go down in history as just another victim. The case of Ruddock, Spinks, and many others that Tyson demolished, actually were "good/great" boxers of an earlier era. I'll be waiting for that Michael Spinks video; keep up the good work!
Actually, Tyson's success did "boil down" to natural talent. This guy was 190 lbs of muscle at 13 years old! Reportedly he could bench press 225 lbs many times too. He also had natural reflexes and strength. This doesn't diminish his career AT ALL. It means he was a supremely gifted natural athlete AND also had the dedication, training, mindset, and mentoring to become one of the greats. But let's be clear: a fighter can have every advantage Tyson did, MINUS the natural talent... and you've never heard of them. If you make a list of great heavyweights, there isn't one without high-level natural talent. You cannot compete without elite toughness, athleticism, and strength. You'll just get blown out.
2:03 That’s the EXACT move Tyson used to knock down Jose Ribalta in RD 10. Jose slipped the right hook, and Tyson countered with a stronger but more compact left hook.
At his best Mike Tyson speed and power The combination of both was unbelievable coupled with the technique and work ethic and what could’ve been if he had stayed fully dedicated to the sport of boxing
A lot of people were thinking Spinks had a shot. He was unbeaten up to that point, and had wins against Larry Holmes, Dwight Qawi, and Gerry Cooney. Spinks was a good fighter, but I don't know how anyone would have survived what Tyson unleashed on him.
Man, i love this channel! Spinks looked terrified walking down to the ring but, i would've been the same way fighting a Mike Tyson, who's life around this time was becoming chaotic.
Spinks was shyte scared of Tyson as a boxer and as a person. But big kudos to him, he faced a prime Mike Tyson in spite of it. Many pro boxers waited for a vulnerable, burnt out Mike Tyson before facing him. Anyone who went into the ring against Iron Mike during his prime, has my utmost respect.
Spinks didn’t want that heat. He was afraid. But he went into the ring knowing what could happen. The personification of “come back with your shield, or on it.” Respect to anyone who faces Mike Tyson.
I watched Mike and Ali on late night t.v. and I remember it being a monumental moment even to me at 10 yrs old. Ali changed the way boxing was seen. He changed the way fighters were trained. He will forever be one of the absolute few elite human beings that forced the world to see through a clearer filter and made those who climbed in the ring to both be trained & rise to higher expectation, making the sport refine even the greats to a whole new level. And for it, you see one of the greatest side effects, "A BAD MAN", M.G.Tyson.
Mikes gold toothed smile is absolutely terrifying. What an absolute legend!! Literally a living legend that will be talked about in 100yrs from now and more.
Thank you for all you do to shed light on Tyson. They sure as hell didn’t do it like this in the media. Please do a Spinks/Holmes id definitely like to see it.
It wasn’t just “antics” to scare Spinks, for those of us who were alive when this fight took place we know two things, number 1 Tyson really felt like he had to prove himself that night because many in the boxing community still felt that Michael Spinks was the true champion, he was undefeated and lineal, Tyson was very much aware of this and it made him irate. Number 2, Spinks manager accused Team Tyson of illegal hand wraps and made them do it over again while he watched, it delayed the fight and was perceived as an insult. Those two things and the practical joke Rooney played on Mike concerning his money for the fight are the main reasons why Tyson was on fire that night and looking to make an example out of Spinks and that’s exactly what happened 😂
Even funnier is that Spinks was so terrified of Tyson that he did not actually face-off against him as shown in the beginning, Tyson had to talk to a mannequin and started laughing which can be seen on here in another video lol. Then they spliced the two videos together. Tyson was an unstoppable force in his prime and ran right through a terrified Spinks.
They are still out there. People saying that Tyson fought no one and when he did fight anyone of caliber he lost to them all . That fight there proved how dangerous an opponent he really was . 90 seconds to dispose of an unbeaten fighter in devastating style. In his prime he beats all but the very elite of boxing heavyweights. Ali, Foreman, Louis . But he gets by the Fraziers and Marcianos .......I think ;)
Best left hook ever! And right hand power was off the charts! Really enjoyed Mike and Ali in there prime , can’t say who would win that fight because we can only guess ! Thanks for the memories to both champions!!
ESPN+ has a nice archive of classic bouts. This is part of the collection. Ring entrances longer than the fight. Amazing stuff from Kid Dynamite. I would love to see his career in an alternate universe where his dark side did not take over. By the time he was truly tested he was in a different mental space. But he could close guys out like no other.
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I live in St. Louis. I feel like a lot of people here don’t remember or realize we had 3 world champions, all in the same family. That stat alone seems crazy.
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I remember watching this live with my dad when I was ten years old. Two hours scheduled for the fight and just boom, down. We loved it!
Dam U old
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I remember playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out for the NES that same day.
I was 8 when this fight happened. My older brother got my dad tickets to watch the fight on the big screen at the Superdome a couple hours away in New Orleans. I still remember my dad talking about how he missed the whole fight: reached to pick up his beer and missed the first knockdown, reached to put his beer down and missed the second knockdown.
I have pretty much the same story except I was 7 I just remember shortly after that fight is when pay per view started charging by the round no longer 59.99 flat rate because Tyson just kept destroying these guys in the first round lol
@@LiquidNorris rumor has it so did Spinks, just so he had an actual chance to beat Tyson.
There will never be a fighter like Mike Tyson again. Legend.
@kevinvandorst ...Thank God!
Lmao. Seeing mike tyson in his prime is like WTF, are you joking.
There are no fighters as elusive and defensive as Mike was in his prime while still being aggressive and explosive in power. He had the perfect combination of skills. I believe he could have defeated any of the greats in his prime.
overrated
@@easterbuny2226 In who's book? Edit": Obviously yours
“A typical day of training for Tyson starts at 4am. No alarm clock. His body just knows.” wtf i need that circadian rhythm 😭😂
Oh you get used to getting up early. Even 13 years after getting out of the military, getting up at 5 am still seems normal.
No kidding I work at 3am everyday and it’s amazing how often I just randomly wake up two minutes before my alarm goes off. I’d say more often than not I do
There were no phones in that training camp distracting.
@C yr a warrior
😂😂😂😂
"The moment you contemplate retirement, you're finished." I got chills from that.
Tyson Fury didn't get this memo, neither did Big George Foreman.
At 57 and still trying to powerlift, its a thought that crosses my mind more often now lol
" The most difficult part of fighting ,believe it or not is the training . The fighting is the easy part " . Mike Tyson .
Easy for HIM to say... Cuz Iron Mike was knockin' people out left and right, during his prime! 🥊
@@OtomoTenzi lol !
Discipline!
bro loves the space bar
That's why I've trained daily and have always been ready since I was 13. Ask my 6'2" brother when he was 16.
Respect to anyone who never backed down from going into the ring with Mike Tyson in his prime!!
Fact's
Anyone with a brain would have done it, Leon got paid 29 million for that fight
Agreed
Mike Tyson was just too fast and powerful for Spinks. You can see Spinks couldn't maneuver around or even block Tyson punches on time because they were so hard and quick with accuracy.
I used to play a game at work called "Would You?" and it was about what we would do for a certain amount of money, such as, "I just shat in my panties".
This version of Mike Tyson that you're watching against Michael Spinks, is Mike Tyson at his very peak. From the opening when bounces out from the corner, he was absolutely flawless in this fight.
100% TRUTH!!!
well the Tyson that fought Frazier was insane
Thanks to all that Cus had instilled in him prior to his death. Without Cus, Tyson never winds up winning, and is probably in prison his entire adult life.
@@HunteR1199 Yeah, I consider the 86' Tyson on his way to the title to be his absolute peak. He was feeling it in some fights more than others, but he was an animal during his Frazier bout.
This was also his last fight at his peak. He started to cut corners after this. Michael Spinks fight was the last one with Kevin in his corner. No one could reach Mike anymore for the rest of his career.
I'm most impressed by his neck size and neck training. Beast.
It is common for Greco-Roman wrestlers. Tyson took this from another sport and included into his marvelous training!!
You damn right; dude was supreme conditioned pit bull. You don’t see that neck on most linebackers.
he regretted his neck training years later
Thats cause him back problems too
@@user-03-gsa3 Modern Wrestlers (and Nascar drivers) train their neck differently to avoid the problems the older roman techniques caused. Currently they have use bands wrapped around the side of their heads.
This was the first Tyson fight I ever saw. I was 7 years old and I can still remember the adults around getting pissed the fight ended so soon
My uncle got up to grab a beer and when he returned the fight was over 😂
That’s how i remember feeling during Tyson’s last win when I was around the same age you were for this fight lol
Tyson's training routine was absolutely nuts. Wow.
Tyson was NUTS!!! not mentally....not really....seems like a nice guy actually. But what he had....no one else did. His signature combo, he'd sneak up hit you about 5 times with what sounded like gunshots, and then he was gone. It's why some many fights started and ended so fast. Only a few looked like they knew what to do with him. he was smaller, faster, stronger by a mile and his technique didn't let you throw power at him. It was a marvel to watch and I doubt in my time I'll see the likes of Mike Tyson or Michael Jordan again! It is hard to tell my kids what a monster he was. SO FAST,,,and man....hit like THANOS!!
That’s why he was the best.
That's why he's arguably the greatest ever
heh, I thought they all did that...
Indeed. Mike woke up and had a glass of coke. He then ate a brick of cocaine for breakfast. Then two hours working out, followed by a snort of coke for post workout. Then after recovery from the training, another glass of coke to wash everything down.
Repeating that routine day after day is indeed amazing!
Tyson punching holes in the wall before the fight must have been the scariest thing ever 😅
Jesse Beckwith ...Plywood.
nah, just the usual firing up the animal before the fight!
@@jackson5116 ...According to you.
@@brucescott4261 Ever try to punch through plywood?
how is that even allowed like who has to pay for that
If Mike Tyson never went to prison and struggled with drug addiction afterwards he wouldn't lose his motivation and would most likely retire undefeated. A big what if.
I personally believe he would have been untouchable at least until the late 90s…don king and that coke ruined what should have been the greatest career of all time
If Cus D'Amato had only been 12-15 years younger and had been able to train/manage Tyson throughout his career, he'd have finished 60-0 (unless he ended up trying to hang on too long and absorbing some losses when he was way past his prime).
Also don't forget that by the insistence of Don King, Mike fired Kevin Rooney, a man that had been a great part of Mike's success and someone who had been trained under Cus, i think if Kevin Rooney had been with Mike his career would've been much brighter, but Don King had to ruin it for everyone.
Most likely not. He was obliterated @ the age of 23 in 1990 prior to going to prison. It was only a matter of time before Holyfield and Lewis. Mike's legacy is tarnished a bit not having faced Ike Bowe Tua Foreman Mercer McCall Moorer Morrison Cooper or even Toney towards the very end.
All these what ifs and excuses are getting rudiculous.
this channel has quickly become one of my favorite. this channel is able to recap the career of mike tyson in such an entertaining and informative fashion ; not just about tyson but also about his opponents and how their carrers play out afterwards. great content! 🔔✅
Same I get so into every single one of these that keep coming out. top tier videos
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Agreed
this channel was so good before I think youtube started messing with the content creator. Either way this channel is definitely top tier.
His original channel has way more content but my man got screwed up by copyright claims.
i’ll always love Mike’s lil run up at the beginning of this fight 😂
Dancing
It means he can't wait to knock your head off.
When Tyson fought Eddie Richardson and knocked him out in the first round, an announcer asked Richardson if he had ever been beaten harder than Tyson beat him, he said "Yes, about a year ago, I was hit by a truck" That pretty much sums It up, THX BLTV. 🥊 👍 Subbed.
I will never get tired of watching iron mike
By the way, Spinks considered endurance his main weapon against Tyson. That's why before the fight he actively insisted on 15 rounds instead of the standard 12.
I'm sure 15 rounds was common for champions fights back then. I seem to remember it getting cut to 12 rounds in the nineties.
Though I'm far from an expert on boxing history
Spinks should have been preparing to box not play basketball, I bet he didn't spar or weight train enough.
It was a 12 round fight.
Lasted 91 seconds.
The last heavyweight 15-rounder title fight was on October 16, 1987 between Mike Tyson and Tyrell Biggs.
@@owencampbell8799 cheers dude
@@ruledtrendy5066 Yeah, the 15 round fights faded out in the late 70's and early 80's after several deaths. I think the last 15 round fight at all was in 1987.
Regardless of what fans say nowadays, this fight was the biggest event in boxing since the Thrilla in Manila. Both undefeated and had a claim to the heavyweight title.
Bullcrap...you watched another video where the said this was the FIGHT OF THE YEAR....u trying to sound smart but I caught that ass
Good call.
sprinks was the champion
Michael Spinks might as well been a 12 year old boy in there. He was always over rated IMO.
@@drummersinger5324 underrated. The guy was a light heavyweight beating all time great Larry aholmes
I feel like Cus/Rooney Mike was the ultimate boxing specimen. Perfect mix of natural talent, physical gifts, killer instinct and a work ethic and dedication to match, plus that intimidation factor. In his prime he showed that the best heavyweight boxers of the era couldn't even stand up to him, some by a long margin. Had he remained focused I believe he would've been the top dog for a very long time
Cap. What do you mean top heavyweights? Tyson only beat 2 top heavyweights of his era
@C Coaches usually say a lot to hype up their fighters and Tyson fought a lot of bums so that summarizes it.
There was no greater luxury in Mike Tyson's early life than men he respected who were brave enough to tell him "no". Hard to come by those when you can beat the living shit out of any man on the planet.
More like steroid city: it was in the earliest era where there were no tests but stuff would have become available, especially to a mad scientists like Cus and you see Tyson looking like a 30 year old at age 18. Dude was on the gear for sure
All of the guys that he fought, early in his career, from 1986, when he won the WBC title against Trevor Berbick, until February 1990, when he was knocked out by Buster Douglas, were a group of mediocre ex-champions, overhyped fringe contenders, and fighters who never fulfilled what little promise they had. i.e. Tyrell Biggs and Carl Williams
I'm sorry, but knockouts of Trevor Berbick, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tubbs, and little Michael Spinks just aren't that impressive.
I still have this fight on a JVC VHS cassette from June 1988. I’ve watched it over and over so many times. I still remember Michael Spinks arriving in the ring to Kenny Loggins song, *_”This is it!”_* How sadly prophetic it proved to be.
Tyson's "music" when he came to the ring on the other hand... the best ever!
Get it saved in a USB dude. That vhs won't last forever 👍
You keep videos of rapists? That's weird
@@megami215he did nothing you clown.
@@megami215you actively sought out this video went to the comments just to reply to it with this?
he looked fucking RIGHTFULLY terrified walking in there his body language screamed get me the f out of here but..he still went in there so respect ..i love this channel mike is my idol i got to talk w him 4-17-12 for 30 whole minutes it was awesome even got to show him my peekaboo and d-shift ability and he said you must of practiced along time then tightened me up a bit..it was absolutely AWESOME most humble figure i ever met
this fight was arguably mike tyson's best preformance, this was mike in his absolute prime🔥
He didn’t break a sweat
Never really was into boxing or Mike Tyson for that matter but this channel has made me a fan. These videos are put together so well. Keep em coming!
If you grew up in the era of Tyson like I did (was born in 86) basically everyone was a fan, Tyson, Jordan, Jackson, the 3 most famous Mikes.
Mike truly is one of the all-time-greats
They both earned my respect. No one can be a world champion by coincidence. Its a result of hardwork and dicipline.
Never will forget this fight, particularly the way you could tell the fight was over before it began. Tyson truly was living rent free in Spinks' head
Spinks did everything in his power to avoid this fight
@@Bestrapperalive_ Yep. He never wanted to fight Tyson, and when the fight was finally made, it was over before it even began.
@@thirteen28 yep he even avoided tony tucker and tucker imo would’ve knocked spinks out making the Tyson fight bigger
I remember watching this as a kid. My dad and his friend bought a Pay-Per-View for this and it was over in no time. He was so mad lol, but man, what a moment in history to witness.
That night Tyson was the best HW ever. No one would have stopped him. NO ONE. All those years of relentless training and sacrifice culminated that one night. Unbelievable.
Muhammad Ali would be the one.
100% AGREE.
Mike Tyson is a legend. Not just as the toughest man to enter into the ring, but for all the mental turmoil he had to fight before ever entering the ring. 100% Respect!
Young folks today don't know how terrifying Mike Tyson was. There has been no one in my lifetime that I can compare to him.
I dunno. I was 12 when he first won the title, and I was there for all of the hype around him. But let's be honest, when he was young and knocking all of those guys out, who did he really fight, and beat?? I can list them off for you - Trevor Berbick, Bonecrusher Smith, Pinklon Thomas, Tony Tucker, Tyrell Biggs, a 38-year-old Larry Holmes, Tony Tubbs, Michael Spinks, Frank Bruno, and Carl Williams. Besides old man Holmes, all of those guys were Has Beens or Never Wases. They were what we might call 'Also Rans.'
And finally, when Tyson began fighting again, at the age of 29 - hardly past his prime, as people like to insinuate - the heavyweight division was full of excellent young fighters, and guys who were on the cusp when Tyson went to prison. Even though his fans say he was past his prime, in the 90s, that's when he finally fought and beat his most impressive opponents, such as Bruce Seldon, Shannon Briggs, Andrew Golota, Francois Botha, etc. But, when the money was finally on the table for Tyson, and he had to go up against fighters who were of his caliber, or better, he got knocked out. Evander Holyfield took all that Tyson could dish out, for 10 rounds, and finally put Tyson's lights out, with a straight right hand, in the 11th round. And then there was the fight with Lennox Lewis, in 2002. I remember all of the fanboys saying that Tyson was going to destroy him; but at the time, I knew that Tyson didn't stand a chance. Lennox Lewis was 6'5," weighed 235+ and had a right cross that could knock opponents into next week. He's the hardest puncher that I ever saw, and I knew that he was going to embarass Tyson, prior to that fight. It was like George Foreman versus Joe Frazier all over again.
Tysons fans like to say that Lewis ducked Tyson, until Tyson was past his prime - neither argument carries any weight - because Lewis was busy fighting everyone who was around, at the time (he literally fought them all, except Bowe, who was terrified of him), and when Lewis and Tyson finally did meet, Lewis was 37, and Tyson was 36. So, it could just as easily be said that Tyson ducked Lewis, until Lewis was almost 40. Both assertions are nonsense.
I used to watch his fights and I didn't have time to get to my second beer before it was over...
You're spot on. He never beat a top-tier boxer. Spinks was a lightheavy who wasn't up for it. Holmes was a fat old man. Tyson only fought journeymen and second-raters. He dodged Lewis and Bowe in the 90s and only fought Holyfield bc he was more his size as an ex-LH/cruiserweight (and lost twice). And that's all before anabolic steroids are mentioned: see Ben Johnson's explosiveness. He eventually fought Lewis but that was bc he'd been cleaned out by King - and then he got humiliated in the ring@@MatewanMassacre
And it's funny that all they know is Deontay Wilder.
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Man I'm excited to see what this Tyson guy does next, looks like a real prospect.
I think he's about to retire. He's considering a professional pigeon racing career instead
@@megasmashxD Well damn, what a waste of potential
What a great conversation you guys had here 😂😂
@@j-bonemcswiggans4597 What can I say dude loves his pigeons
Currently doing my casual 2 hour jump rope session & was losing motivation.....THANK U :)
This was the absolute highlight of Tyson's career. Everything that made Tyson himself was shown in this fight. Speed, technique, combos, intimitadion. Spinks really had no chance to win.
None at all. At the time this was hyped as "SuperFight "88."
It's hard, now, to believe that any serious boxing fan ever fell for that hype.
That fight was over when Tyson hit him with the body shot. As far that the ghost right hand that knocked Spinks out, I think he took a dive at that point. He didn't want any more.
Spinks was and awesome fighter. His demolition of Gerry Cooney and wins over Larry Holmes proved that. For Tyson to win in such a way was a great victory
Tyson was on the top of the world after this win--but then came the long layoff of eight months till he fought Bruno. Remember, this was his third fight in 1988 after four fights in 1987.
When I was a kid, sometimes on a Sunday morning live boxing would come on instead of the cartoons I was looking forward to.
I used to love seeing Tyson come into the ring because I knew I wouldn't have to wait long to see the cartoons
I remember watching this live. He was such a force at that time that the biggest question was always whether the opponent could get through the first round.
I love that man for taking Mike into his family and doing everything he did for Mike. If the rest of the world was like him I can only imagine how much better this world would be. He was a good person ❤
I truly believe that the Mike Tyson who showed up on this night, full of focused rage at the peak of this power, would have beaten any heavyweight who ever lived or who was ever going to live. Too bad we never saw that guy again.
You can't help but to admire and respect these guys. They do the thing most of us can only dream of. Fighters are both a breed apart, and a breed unto themselves. Big Props!!! What say to that America? Peace and blessings to ALL!!!
In the world today where the heavyweights are ducking each other it's always good to see the true GOAT of the heavyweights.
8:27 Always loved Mike's neck roll after knocking Spinks on his backside lol
Big thanks for all these videos, always incredible, big props !
6:45 You can hear the despair in his voice, that guy was more defeated than Spinks himself!
This channel will always be goated
This man is an inspiration to any young sportsman aiming for the top of their sport. Hardwork and dedication pays off.
Keep doing this amazing work!! Love this channel, I’ve learn so much and it’s so enjoyable. Thank you so much!
I remember staying up until 3am to watch hìs fights back then!He was a force of nature!A boxing God!
Getting into the ring with Mike Tyson then was like stepping into a room with a nuclear reactor, feels like at any moment it will explode and wipe out everyone.
That’s!!! His training regiment, holy smokes!!!
I remember that night as if if happened yesterday. I paid big bucks to watch at a sports bar. I took a sip of beer and it was over, just that fast. I had to see it on replay.
I remember watching this live as a teenager. Tyson was a superhero. I can recall with perfect clarity, even at that age, recognizing the sheer terror pouring off Spinks minutes before the bell even rang. He was terrified. Never seen anything like that since.
Respect to both legends…but the difference in their training and media tone leading up the the fight was night and day.
Thanks for the video, BLTV CLASSIC
As always, amazing video!!! 🙌🙌
It's so fascinating to better understand Tyson's opponents of back in the day. I was just a baby in the 80s when he was knocking guys left and right, and the BLTV videos have helped me better understand who they were and how many were actually great fighters with amazing careers until they went against Tyson and he made them go down in history as just another victim. The case of Ruddock, Spinks, and many others that Tyson demolished, actually were "good/great" boxers of an earlier era.
I'll be waiting for that Michael Spinks video; keep up the good work!
Actually, Tyson's success did "boil down" to natural talent. This guy was 190 lbs of muscle at 13 years old! Reportedly he could bench press 225 lbs many times too. He also had natural reflexes and strength.
This doesn't diminish his career AT ALL. It means he was a supremely gifted natural athlete AND also had the dedication, training, mindset, and mentoring to become one of the greats. But let's be clear: a fighter can have every advantage Tyson did, MINUS the natural talent... and you've never heard of them. If you make a list of great heavyweights, there isn't one without high-level natural talent. You cannot compete without elite toughness, athleticism, and strength. You'll just get blown out.
In a demanding sport like boxing, you absolutely must have BOTH: natural ability plus crazy work ethic
2:03 That’s the EXACT move Tyson used to knock down Jose Ribalta in RD 10. Jose slipped the right hook, and Tyson countered with a stronger but more compact left hook.
Forgot to mention that epic entrance with the dark ambient music.
Every time you upload I get new motivation to push through with my boxing career
Only BLTV can talk about Tyson (someone's who tired and redundant) on RUclips and make it interesting 😎🔥.
I remember watching this when it happened... as a huge Tyson fan, I still felt bad for Spinx
But many believed that Spinks would give Tyson a good fight and could well win.
I cant wait for your video on his fight with Bruno!
At his best Mike Tyson speed and power The combination of both was unbelievable coupled with the technique and work ethic and what could’ve been if he had stayed fully dedicated to the sport of boxing
Great video as always!
A lot of people were thinking Spinks had a shot. He was unbeaten up to that point, and had wins against Larry Holmes, Dwight Qawi, and Gerry Cooney. Spinks was a good fighter, but I don't know how anyone would have survived what Tyson unleashed on him.
the size of his neck....good lord
Man, i love this channel! Spinks looked terrified walking down to the ring but, i would've been the same way fighting a Mike Tyson, who's life around this time was becoming chaotic.
I was at a Boy Scout’s camp when this fight happened. The camp allowed us to all stay up late to listen to it on the radio.
The best boxing content on RUclips by far
Spinks was shyte scared of Tyson as a boxer and as a person. But big kudos to him, he faced a prime Mike Tyson in spite of it. Many pro boxers waited for a vulnerable, burnt out Mike Tyson before facing him. Anyone who went into the ring against Iron Mike during his prime, has my utmost respect.
Indeed, Holyfield beat a Tyson that was a ghost of himself without questioned...Holyfield would not of handled a prime Tyson.
Spinks didn’t want that heat. He was afraid. But he went into the ring knowing what could happen. The personification of “come back with your shield, or on it.” Respect to anyone who faces Mike Tyson.
I cannot describe how Miles Ahead your content is compared to everyone in YT or TV boxing.
You can literally see the fear in Spinks’s eyes. He looks absolutely terrified.
To be fair, he always looked like this.
Been watching a bunch of these Tyson retrospectives the last couple days, good shit man.
I watched Mike and Ali on late night t.v. and I remember it being a monumental moment even to me at 10 yrs old. Ali changed the way boxing was seen. He changed the way fighters were trained. He will forever be one of the absolute few elite human beings that forced the world to see through a clearer filter and made those who climbed in the ring to both be trained & rise to higher expectation, making the sport refine even the greats to a whole new level. And for it, you see one of the greatest side effects, "A BAD MAN", M.G.Tyson.
Mikes gold toothed smile is absolutely terrifying. What an absolute legend!! Literally a living legend that will be talked about in 100yrs from now and more.
Keep up the good work, dude
Thank you for all you do to shed light on Tyson. They sure as hell didn’t do it like this in the media. Please do a Spinks/Holmes id definitely like to see it.
It wasn’t just “antics” to scare Spinks, for those of us who were alive when this fight took place we know two things, number 1 Tyson really felt like he had to prove himself that night because many in the boxing community still felt that Michael Spinks was the true champion, he was undefeated and lineal, Tyson was very much aware of this and it made him irate. Number 2, Spinks manager accused Team Tyson of illegal hand wraps and made them do it over again while he watched, it delayed the fight and was perceived as an insult. Those two things and the practical joke Rooney played on Mike concerning his money for the fight are the main reasons why Tyson was on fire that night and looking to make an example out of Spinks and that’s exactly what happened 😂
As a mike tyson fanatic this was AWSOME .Best wishes from the uk
I watched this fight it was amazing shots from Tyson, a BEAST in the RING back then and the Greatest
Hell not the goat though
Even funnier is that Spinks was so terrified of Tyson that he did not actually face-off against him as shown in the beginning, Tyson had to talk to a mannequin and started laughing which can be seen on here in another video lol. Then they spliced the two videos together. Tyson was an unstoppable force in his prime and ran right through a terrified Spinks.
Tyson in his prime. My God! He was simply magnificent.
They are still out there. People saying that Tyson fought no one and when he did fight anyone of caliber he lost to them all . That fight there proved how dangerous an opponent he really was . 90 seconds to dispose of an unbeaten fighter in devastating style. In his prime he beats all but the very elite of boxing heavyweights. Ali, Foreman, Louis . But he gets by the Fraziers and Marcianos .......I think ;)
Thats the thing even if he had beaten holyfield in his prime people would’ve scraped that fight too like just another fight of mike ..
The sound of that knockout punch was crazy!
after all mike tyson videos, I hope you keep making videos about other fighters, Id love to see evander holyfield, sonny liston and others
the mix of phonk and mike in the outro is so perfect!
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Tyson's famous for his aggression but holy hell that was on another level.
Best left hook ever! And right hand power was off the charts! Really enjoyed Mike and Ali in there prime , can’t say who would win that fight because we can only guess ! Thanks for the memories to both champions!!
Wow. Spinks had nothing on his punches. Just terrified
Great work as always.
ESPN+ has a nice archive of classic bouts. This is part of the collection. Ring entrances longer than the fight. Amazing stuff from Kid Dynamite. I would love to see his career in an alternate universe where his dark side did not take over. By the time he was truly tested he was in a different mental space. But he could close guys out like no other.
This was so well done
19/20 year old Tyson was probably the best boxer there has even been.. past and present..
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I only wish there were more people on your team so there'd be more videos. They're always amazing
Seems this guy wasn’t even naturally anything out of the ordinary . Guy just became a living training regime . Dedication is key
You know NOTHING.
@@SOLDOZER hahahah sounds like someone’s got anger issues . Maybe u can be the next Tyson xD
This piece represents a quality effort- as long as you’re doing this, people like me will watch.
The title matches the content
The content is fact-based and consistent
I live in St. Louis.
I feel like a lot of people here don’t remember or realize we had 3 world champions, all in the same family.
That stat alone seems crazy.
Love this channel!
Dang, man. Honestly liked Spinks a lot, and was hoping for some crazy successful rebound after the Tyson loss. Glad he retired happy I suppose