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On This Day 21 Years Ago - Mike Tyson Smokes Marvis Frazier In 30 Seconds!

By James Slater: Exactly 21 years ago today (July 26th) “Iron” Mike Tyson scored one of his most awesome and frightening pre-championship knockouts. Taking on the son of the legendary “Smokin’” Joe Frazier, the just-turned 20-year-old Tyson figured to get a decent test from the experienced Marvis Frazier.

Marvis had an impressive amateur career along with the experience of having previously boxed for the world heavyweight title. This was not even close to being the case, however, as “Kid Dynamite,” another of Tyson’s ring monikers back then, utterly destroyed the 25-year-old in 30 blisteringly violent seconds.

The ‘fight’ - such as it was, took place in Glenn Falls, New York on July 26th 1986, and Mike Tyson’s emergence as the most exciting and devastating heavyweight in the world was really starting to take shape. After his bludgeoning of poor Marvis, no one needed to look anywhere else for the division’s new star. Tyson was an absolute wrecking machine. In possession of a deadly combination of speed and punching power, Mike was starting to make serious experts refer to him as a future all-time great.

Certainly, in the bout with the son of Joe Frazier, he looked the part. Seemingly cornering Marvis with the sound of the opening bell still reverberating, Tyson never gave the then 16-1(7) boxer a chance. “Tyson is smoking like Marvis’ father Joe,” bellowed the U.S commentator, as Mike went to work. A blurring series of howitzers and a handful of seconds later, it was all over. Marvis crumpled to his knees and the now 24-0(22) future champ snarled menacingly. Mike had arguably scored the most impressive win so far in his skyrocketing career. Less than five months later he would become the WBC heavyweight king.

Of course Tyson went on to score many more scintillating knockouts. His annihilation of Marvis Frazier has to figure as one the most memorable.
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1923- Johnny Dundee W 15 Eugene Criqui, NYC. Wins world featherweight title.
Dundee ends Criqui’s 24-day reign as world featherweight champ.
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1928- Gene Tunney KO 11 Tom Heeney, NYC. Retains world heavyweight title. Tunneys’ final fight. https://uploadir.com/u/4mhq4po8



1928- Billy Petrolle D 10 Jack (Kid) Berg, Chicago.



1933- Barney Ross KO 6 Johnny Farr, Kansas City. World junior welterweight title.
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1938- Al Hostak KO 1 Freddie Steele, Seattle. Wins NBA middleweight title.
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1948- Freddie Mills W 15 Gus Lesnevich, London. Wins world light heavyweight title.
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1967- Chartchai Chionoi KO 3 Puntip Keosuriya, Bangkok. Retains WBC flyweight title.



1971- Muhammad Ali KO 12 Jimmy Ellis, Houston. Wins vacant NABF heavyweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/hn4mbzox



1977- Matthew "Franklin" Saad Muhammad KO 12 Marvin Johnson, Philadelphia.
Wins vacant NABF light heavyweight title. A quintessential Philly war!

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1978- Vilomar Fernandez W 10 Alexis Arguello, NYC. Non-title fight. Upset of the year!

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1981- Lupe Pintor KO 8 Jovito Rengifo, Las Vegas. Retains WBC bantamweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/y2fdb0w7



1986- Mike Tyson KO 1 Marvis Frazier, Glen Falls, NY. Less than thirty seconds in, and Marvis is toast. Smokin’ Joe wanted it; Marvis got it! https://uploadir.com/u/g05pjoe4



1987- Chong Pal Park KO 4 Emmanuel Otti, Kwangiu, S. Korea. Retains IBF super middleweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/uakxvtwc



1987- Antonio Esparragoza KO 10 Pascual Aranda, Houston. Retains WBA featherweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/q41xss0e



1997- Antonio Cermeno KO 12 Yuichi Kasai, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBA super bantamweight title. https://uploadir.com/u/8ofhsgmu



1997- Stevie Johnston W 12 Hiroyuki Sakamoto, Yokohama, Japan. Retains WBC lightweight title.

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1998- Mark "Too Sharp" Johnson W 12 Luis Rolon, Verona, NY. Retains IBF flyweight title.

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1988- Satoshi Iida W 12 Joma Gamboa, Nagoya, Japan. Retains WBA super flyweight title.

1999- IBF junior middleweight champion Fernando Vargas, 21, is arrested in Summerland, California, for investigation of assault with a deadly weapon and burglary.

2003- Manny Pacquiao KO 3 Emmanuel Lucero, Los Angeles. Retains IBF Junior Featherweight Title. https://uploadir.com/u/722zuuwn



2008- Antonio Margarito KO 11 Miguel Cotto, Las Vegas. Wins WBA Welterweight Title. https://uploadir.com/u/i9zrl37y[/size]
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1959- Flashy Panio scored an upset 8-round decision over future world junior welterweight champion Roberto Cruz; Calumpit, Bulacan, Philippines. Cruz would avenge the loss four months later.
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The following post has been merged into this one from a different thread.
on this day 2008 scappoosejohn wrote:From East Side Boxing:

Eighty Years Ago Today - Gene Tunney Beats Tom Heeney, And Then Retires As Unbeaten Heavyweight Champion Of The World

26.07.08 - by James Slater: Exactly eighty years ago this very day, heavyweight champion of the world Gene Tunney boxed for the very last time. The fight also marked Tunney's second defence of the heavyweight championship. Having won the crown two summers previously by out-pointing the great Jack Dempsey over ten scheduled rounds, and then beating "The Manassa Mauler" for a second time in the legendary "Battle of The Long Count," Tunney had achieved all he'd wanted in boxing..

A great light-heavyweight, who had a series of fights at 175-pounds against Harry Greb - Greb being the only man to ever beat Tunney - Gene always had an eye on heavyweight ruler Dempsey. Studying the murderous punching heavyweight king for future purposes, Tunney always had it in his mind to face Dempsey one day. That day finally came in September of 1926 and, with Dempsey ready for the taking due to inactivity and age having taken their toll on him, "The Fighting Marine" executed the game-plan he'd been formulating for many years as he soundly thrashed the champion over the ten rounds by a unanimous decision.

Now heavyweight king, Tunney was no hero like the man he'd beaten. Thought of as something of a snob due to his taste in literature and his social company, among other things, Tunney was never a fighter the fans really warmed to. As such, he was booed during the rematch with Dempsey the following year. "They [the fans] are welcome to boo me," Tunney said. "But they have to pay for the privilege."

The fans in attendance at Soldiers Field in Chicago on September 22nd, 1927 almost got what they wanted. Decked heavily in round 7 by a ferocious Dempsey combination to the head, Tunney was down for over ten seconds - only to............... well, surely ALL boxing fans know what happened and how Tunney-Dempsey II got its famous nickname. Needless to say, the Pro-Dempsey crowd went home disappointed, Tunney with his title intact.

Now having seen off the great Dempsey once and for all (promoter Tex Rickard wanted a third meeting but Dempsey wisely declined), Tunney, a good business man, wanted a big payday before hanging up his gloves. He had also promised his wife Polly that he would retire. And so we come to the Tom Heeney fight that took place today in 1928 at Yankee Stadium, New York. Heeney, a decent fighter hailing from New Zealand who had held former champ Jack Sharkey to a draw just prior to meeting Tunney, had the benefit of having former king Dempsey in his corner for the bout. It didn't help him. Stopping his man in the 11th round, Tunney had pretty much everything his own way.

Indeed, the fight is most famous due to the fact that it lost its promoter a lot of money - to the tune of $200,000 to be exact. Tunney, ever astute, bagged his big pay day as planned. And then he kept his word to his wife and quit. For good. There would be no unhappy comeback necessitated by financial needs for this intelligent boxer - only a long and fruitful life. Becoming good friends with his former rival Dempsey, Gene, like Jack, lived well into old age.

Today recognised as a true boxing great, Tunney is a perfect example of a fighter adequately appreciated only well after his prime years had passed.

Tunney's final record, according to BoxRec.com, is an almost perfect 81-1-3(48). His one and only loss came at light-heavyweight, to Harry Greb - this loss being avenged some three times.
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Passed Away On This Day

1999- Mateo Baring, 31, dies from a brain injury suffered in his seventh-round knockout loss at the hands of Fabio Marfa in the Philippines.
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