![]() ![]() Two of the ticket holders that night: Suge Knight and Tupac Shakur. (A former Marine, Steele was 16-4 as a professional in his own right he supports a disoriented Seldon on his shoulder.) The fans, who have paid hundreds of dollars to the MGM Grand Las Vegas for tickets, begin to taunt Seldon, chanting about how the fix is in. The referee, Richard Steele, steps in and hands Tyson the victory. ![]() Seventy-two seconds in, Tyson-already the title holder in the World Boxing Council-has knocked down Seldon with a left hook Seldon gets up, but is knocked down almost immediately by another left. He stands straight up, backing Seldon into corners, sometimes without throwing punches of his own. If you watch that fight today, you see that Tyson doesn’t crouch, doesn’t bob, doesn’t weave. On September 7, 1996, after exactly 109 seconds, Mike Tyson is declared the World Boxing Association’s heavyweight champion, stripping the belt from Bruce Seldon by technical knockout.
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