Tyson v Mercedes: TKO 1
Tyson makes his pro debut against Mercedes in Albany, NY, and wins by KO in 1m 47s.
Tyson v Singleton: TKO 1
Tyson easily wins his second pro fight in Albany, NY, with a knockout in just 52 seconds, bringing his record to 2-0.
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Tyson v Halpin: KO 4
Tickets are as cheap as $10 for Tyson’s third pro fight in Albany, NY. Halpin is KO‘d in the fourth round.
Tyson v Spain: KO 1
Tyson makes his TV debut against Spain in Atlantic city and takes his record to 4-0 with a knockout after 39 seconds of Round 1.
Tyson v Alderson: TKO 2
Iron Mike wins his fifth professional fight with another short shift, taking out Alderson in Atlantic City with a series of right hand shots in the second round.
Tyson v Sims: KO 3
Tyson’s sixth consecutive victory ends with a KO in the third round against Sims in Poughkeepsie, NY. No footage of the fight exists as the camera team fail to show.
Tyson v Canady: TKO 1
In his third fight in just over a month, Tyson goes to 7-0 with a KO in 1:05 of the first round in Atlantic City. Tyson lets the public in on his fighting game-plan in his post-fight interview:
You don’t have to throw a lot of punches, but every punch you throw make sure to hurt them. Hit them in the right spot where he’s vulnerable at and that’s what I was trying, to place the punch. With every punch hit him so he’ll be hurt at all times. As you know, I’m 19 and I’m just improving
Tyson v Johnson: KO 1
Another victory for Tyson in his eighth fight as he knocks out Johnson with a right hook in Atlantic City. The referee calls a halt after 39 seconds of round 1.
Tyson v Long: KO 1
Tyson earns $5,000, his biggest purse to date, for an Atlantic City fight that is supposed to be the greatest challenge of his fledgling career. Long is on the floor in just 37 seconds and the referee calls a halt at 1:28 of round 1.
Tyson v Colay: KO 1
Tyson enters the ring for the first time for a scheduled 8-round fight in Atlantic City. He knocks out Colay in just 37 seconds taking his record to 10-0 with 10 KOs.
Tyson v Benjamin: TKO 1
Just a week after taking his record to 10-0, Tyson makes it eleven out of eleven with two knockdowns in the first minute of the fight in Latham, NY. Benjamin says:
He has a sledgehammer, mon. When I go down I feel it. He really hits hard. It’s the hardest I ever been hit. The hardest of my whole career, man.
Tyson v Richardson: KO 1
Tyson stuns Houston, Texas, fans with a first round KO against Richardson. Tyson fights despite the death of his trainer Cus D’amato nine days earlier.
Tyson v Nelson: KO 2
Just 9 days after his 12th victory, Tyson returns to Latham, NY, and takes out Nelson with a devastating left hook in the second round. Tyson’s manager, Jim Jacobs, answers the growing calls for Mike to meet the top fighters in the world:
If everything goes the way it’s been going, I’d put Mike in the ring in about June or July (1986) against somebody in the top ten, but you must remember, once you break into the top ten, you can’t go backwards. You can’t beat somebody in the top ten and go back and fight eight-round fights.
Tyson v Scaff: KO 1
Tyson wears what will become his trademark solid black shorts for the first time as he takes his KO record to 14 with a barrage of ferocious shots that force the referee to call a halt after 1:19.
I’ve only been fighting nine months and I’m only nineteen years old. Someone that’s only been fighting for nine months and nineteen years old and now they want me to fight for the title and they want me to fight a contender. That’s absurd in the boxing business. That’s just absurd. My job is to fight and my manager’s job is to manage. If my manager went in the ring to fight Sammy Scaff he wouldn’t look so well and wouldn’t do so well and I feel the same doing his job. I’ll fight anyone my manager chooses for me to fight, because if he feels confident I could beat them, I feel confident I could beat them also.
Tyson v Young: KO 1
In his 15th and final fight of 1985, Tyson downs Young in Latham, NY, with another first round stoppage.
Tyson v Jaco: TKO 1
In Albany, Tyson gets another first round KO against Jaco taking his record to a perfect 16-0.
Tyson v Jameson: TKO 5
In Atlantioc City, Tyson goes beyond four rounds for the first time (although Round 3 is mistakenly only two minutes long) as Jameson holds on gamely until he is stopped with a vicious right hand in the fifth round. After 17 consecutive KOs, the pressure for Tyson to be pitted against a higher claas of opponent intensifies.
Tyson v Ferguson: W DSQ 6
Tyson experiences his longest fight to date in Troy, NY, as Ferguson spends the majority of the fight with his back to the ropes and employs a variety of spoiler tactics. Tyson breaks his opponents nose and puts him on the canvas in Round 5 before the referee calls an end to proceedings in the 6th.
I never get frustrated, because I know we have a ten-round limit and the crop of heavyweights nowadays have a little difficulty going the full ten rounds. They way they have it planned in their mind to beat me is to jab, pot shot, and grab me, but it’s ten rounds and eventually I’m going to catch them.
Tyson v Zouski: KO 3
Tyson enters his 19th bout as the #10 ranked heavyweight in the world. In Uniondale, NY, he fights at his heaviest weight to date, coming in at 220.5lbs. Zouski is knocked out for the first time in his 35 fight career as a right uppercut snaps back his head and a massive left hook sends him down face first for a KO after 2:39 of round three.
Tyson v Tillis: W 10
Tyson is taken the distance for the first time in his career at Glen Falls, NY, ending his perfect record of 19 straight KOs. Tillis proves to be a step up in class from the opponents fought to date, but a unanimous decision takes Tyson to 20-0.
