{"id":288324,"date":"2025-07-24T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288324\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:22:09","slug":"mike-tyson-admits-hes-not-the-greatest-and-names-the-4-heavyweights-who-were-better-than-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/288324\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Tyson Admits He’s Not The Greatest And Names The 4 Heavyweights Who Were Better Than Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one point in boxing history, Mike Tyson<\/a> was the most ferocious fighter on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u2018Iron Mike\u2019 exploded onto the scene during the mid 1980\u2019s where he won his first nineteen bouts via knockout, with twelve of these victories coming inside the opening round.<\/p>\n

He wrote his name into the boxing history books in 1986 when he blasted out WBC world heavyweight champion Trevor Berbick in the 2nd round of their bout to become the youngest heavyweight champion<\/a> ever, a record that remains unbroken to this day.<\/p>\n

He added the WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles to his collection shortly after with respective victories over James Smith and Tony Tucker, achieving undisputed status at heavyweight just one month after he turned 21-years-old.<\/p>\n

Speaking on The Big Podcast with Shaq<\/a>, Tyson was asked to name his \u2018Mount Rushmore\u2019 of heavyweight boxing and told he could include himself, however he went on to name the four fighters he believes are the greatest of all time, leaving himself off the list.<\/p>\n

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\u201c[Jack] Dempsey, [Sonny] Liston, [Muhammad] Ali, [George] Foreman.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Despite the troubles that he faced outside of the ring during the later stages of his storied career, Tyson is still credited with being one of the greatest fighters to have ever laced up the gloves.<\/p>\n

After just shy of two decades out of the ring, the 59-year-old from New York City made a controversial to the ring against Youtuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul last November<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The duo clashed at the AT&T Stadium in Texas on November 15, although \u2018Iron Mike\u2019 ultimately fell short on the night as he suffered a unanimous decision defeat, going on to announce his retirement from boxing shortly after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one point in boxing history, Mike Tyson was the most ferocious fighter on the planet. \u2018Iron Mike\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4108],"tags":[1935,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-288324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-boxing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114909134462080206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}