{"id":1131508,"date":"2020-04-03T18:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T22:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1131508"},"modified":"2020-04-21T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T01:17:59","slug":"mike-tyson-gets-revenge-for-muhammad-ali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/mike-tyson-gets-revenge-for-muhammad-ali\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Mike Tyson Saw Muhammad Ali Get Beaten and Got Revenge for His Hero 7 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mike Tyson <\/a>and Muhammad Ali<\/a> will forever be linked as two of the greatest heavyweight champions in the history of boxing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyson makes no secret of the fact that he idolized Ali growing up in New York. So when a 14-year-old Tyson watched his hero get beaten in his second-to-last fight, he was naturally upset, even vowing to get revenge on the man that had pummeled his idol. What's incredible about the whole story was that he actually did seven years later, with Ali at ringside to witness it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muhammad Ali loses to Larry Holmes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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