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Mike Tyson set a record that no one has come close to when he steamrolled Muhammad Ali’s last foe

On this day in 1986, Mike Tyson won his first heavyweight title in just two rounds. Tyson claimed that he was scared “to death” ahead of his boxing debut back in March of 1985 at the Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York.

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