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Former Opponent Explains How Mike Tyson Survived Getting KO d
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Bruno bares how Tyson weathered his power punches Iron Mike once admitted the English heavyweight almost knocked him out
In their first meeting, Frank Bruno came close to ending the undisputed record of Mike Tyson.
In 1989, Tyson finally faced England’s Bruno in a fight that was previously cancelled five times.
The epic showdown between two colossal heavyweights didn’t last long after the then-undefeated Tyson dismantled Bruno in the fifth round.
However, “Iron Mike” admitted that the Brit’s punches almost knocked him out, referring to it as “like electricity.”
“I WOULD’VE reigned supreme, if it weren’t for Iron Mike Tyson.”
So boldy states Frank Bruno in an upcoming Sky Sports documentary on his historic bid to become the first ever bona fide British world heavyweight champion when he faced Mike Tyson on February 25 1989 at the Las Vegas Hilton Centre.
Older readers will recall the fight as one of the most eagerly anticipated sporting events in years, and even perhaps of the eighties, one offering up a Manichean struggle between a symbol of absolute good in the shape of the most beloved and jovial British heavyweight since Henry Cooper, and in Tyson a man who emitted an aura of such pristine malevolence you would not have been surprised to learn that he routinely basebatted his own reflection for looking at him the wrong way.