The Independent Mike Tyson will celebrate the 20th anniversary of winning the world heavyweight title next month. Tyson's victory over Canada's Trevor Berbick in 1986 was savage, quick and forgettable but the anniversary will be a poignant one because it was the fight that fixed Tyson, who was just 20 at the time, indelibly in the public's mind. Many sports have altered radically since that night in Las Vegas, but in none has the change been more fundamental or more depressing than in heavyweight boxing. Tyson was the last American heavyweight to capture the imagination of the global sporting public, arguably the last heavyweight of any nationality to do so. For a few years after that Berbick fight Tyson was the biggest figure in sport -
he is a dream maaan
he is a dream maaan
