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Mike Tyson Vs. Pinklon Thomas
Mike Tyson vs. Pinklon Thomas, billed as ''Hard Road to Glory'', was a professional boxing match contested on May 30, 1987, for the WBA and WBC heavyweight championships. Background This fight, along with the Tucker-Douglas fight that preceded it and served as the co-main event of the broadcast, were the two penultimate matches in HBO’s ''Heavyweight World Series''; this was a tournament devised by the three major world sanctioning bodies, HBO, and promoter Don King to unify the heavyweight championships and crown an undisputed champion. To this point in the tournament, which began when Trevor Berbick defeated Thomas to win the WBC title in March of 1986, Tyson had already won two of the three available titles, knocking out Berbick in Berbick’s first title defense later in 1986 and then defeating James "Bonecrusher" Smith by unanimous decision earlier in 1987 to win the WBA title. Meanwhile, as the bout between Tyson and Thomas was signed, another was ordered to settle th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyson Vs Thomas
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