What Heavyweight Titles did Mike Tyson hold ?

Question

What Heavyweight Titles did Mike Tyson hold ? And what years did he win and then lose them ? And to whom did he lose them to ?

Answer 1

WBC, WBA, IBF, and evander holyfield's ear.

Answer 2

On November 22,1986 Mike Tyson defeated Trevor Berbick to win the WBC heavy weight title becoming the youngest fighter to ever do so,the following year on March 7,1987, he defeated james "bonecrusher" smith and won the WBA heavy weight title as well,and on August 1st of that same year he defeated Tony Tucker and won the IBF title as well,thus becoming undisputed heavy weight champion of the world. Tyson had various title defenses in his career, at the time there was some controversy surrounding the IBF title, many felt that Michael Spinks was the legitimate IBF champion since he never lost the title in the ring, Mike Tyson put all doubt to rest when he brutally knocked spinks out in the first round (91 seconds to be exact). On February 11 ,1990 Tyson lost all of his titles to james "buster" douglas a 42:1 underdog and shortly after that was sent to prison on rape charges, after he got out of jail he regained the WBC after knocking out Frank Bruno in March 1996 and then regained the WBA belt by defeating Bruce Seldon in september of that year, he eventually lost these belts to Evander Holyfield on November 6,1996, and has not won the title since then.

Answer 3

Mike Tyson won the WBC heavyweight championship in 1986 by knocking out Trevor Berbick, thus becoming the youngest heavyweight champ ever.  In 1987, he annexed both the WBA (from Bonecrusher Smith) and IBF (from Tony Tucker) versions of the title to become the undisputed champion.  After his release from prison in '95, he'd win back both the WBC and WBA belts until he lost to Evander Holyfield in 1996.

Answer 4

Here is the order in which he won and lost his titles:

11/26/1986- Mike Tyson defeats Trevor Berbick to win the WBC heavyweight title.

3/7/1987- Mike Tyson defeats James Smith to win the WBA heavyweight title as well as retain the WBC title.

8/1/1987- Mike Tyson defeats Tony Tucker to win the IBF heavyweight title as well as retain the WBC and WBA titles.

6/27/1988- Mike Tyson defeats Michael Spinks to win the linear heavyweight championship as well as retain the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles.

2/11/1990- James "Buster" Douglas defeats Mike Tyson to win the inear championship as well as the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles.

3/16/1996- Mike Tyson defeats Frank Bruno to win the WBC heavyweight title.

9/7/1996- Mike Tyson defeats Bruce Seldon to win the WBA heavyweight title, but is stripped of the WBC title for not fighting his mandatory against Lennox Lewis.

11/9/1996- Evander Holyfield defeats Mike Tyson to win the WBA heavyweight title.

After the loss to Holyfield, he never won a title again, but he did unsuccessfully challenge Evander Holyfield in a rematch for the WBA heavyweight title on 6/28/1997.  And he unsuccessfully challenged Lennox Lewis for the linear championship as well as the WBC and IBF titles on 6/8/2002.

Answer 5

He has only won these 3 belts listed in order:

WBC - 11-22-1986

WBA - 3-7-1987

IBF - 8-1-1987

he won some of them again later in his career but these are the only 3 he has held.

Answer 6

he won all of them, WBA, WBC, and IBF, in 1987.  In a fight on February 11, 1990, he lost the undisputed championships to James "Buster" Douglas in Tokyo.