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Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander Holyfield Fight As He Tries To Take Selfie With It

Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander Holyfield Fight As He Tries To Take Selfie With It

Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander: Boxing News: Mike Tyson Fought Evander Holyfield in 1996 and lost his belts. Tyson said Holyfield headbutted him several times during the fight. On June 28th 1997, they rematched when Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield’s ear and Tyson was disqualified during the […]

Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander: Boxing News: Mike Tyson Fought Evander Holyfield in 1996 and lost his belts. Tyson said Holyfield headbutted him several times during the fight. On June 28th 1997, they rematched when Tyson bit off a piece of Holyfield’s ear and Tyson was disqualified during the third round of their heavyweight rematch. Follow Boxing News Updates with InsideSport.IN.

Evander Holyfield’s ear was chewed off by Mike Tyson during a boxing battle in Las Vegas. The referee did not stop the battle even though he really bit off a piece of it and spit it out. A little while later, Tyson repeated the action.

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Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander Holyfield Fight As He Tries To Take Selfie With It

When asked as to why Mike felt the urge to bite off his opponent’s ears, he said that he doesn’t actually know the reason yet, but when the differences occurred inside the ring, Mike had an intuition that he would lose the match pathetically, because of the cut above his eye. It was an impulsive act that he didn’t put in much thought.

A similar instance was posted on Twitter that led the boxer fan remember the incident.

Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander Holyfield Fight As He Tries To Take Selfie With It

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Boxing Fan’s Pet Dog Turns Into Mike Tyson From The Evander Holyfield Fight As He Tries To Take Selfie With It

The fight is known as “The Bite Fight” to date. In a clinch, “Iron Mike” used all of his desperation and bit off a portion of Holyfield’s ear. Holyfield was shocked and complained to referee Mills Lane, who checked it and, to the amazement of the spectators, who were unaware of what had happened, decided to disqualify Mike Tyson.

The spectators didn’t really get the scenario until Tyson bit Holyfield was shown on the arena screen in slow motion.

Tyson was permanently disfigured, put on probation, and did not return to the ring until 1999. Holyfield lost a portion of his ear but kept his entire World Boxing Association title. The encounter became known as “The Bite Fight.”

One of the Boxing Fans posts a couple of pictures on Twitter with his dog, captioning,” I told my dog I wanted one picture together. She then proceeds to turn me into Mike Tyson bit my ear.”

Tyson was penalised $3 million, still the biggest financial penalty in boxing.

However, Tyson and Holyfield are now friends.

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