r/nextfuckinglevel • u/2bitthug • 11h ago
15 year old Mike Tyson 's 8 second knockout. (1981)
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u/Boomtown626 11h ago
Bro should have gotten some more practice before breaking out 007-373-5963
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u/Fullmoon-Angua 11h ago
Out of all the things I remember my late grandfather telling me, two them are
Just before Boris Becker broke onto the scene my grandad told me 'this guy has it, put your money on him for wimbledon'
and he said the same things about Tyson - This guy has it put your money on him.
Mind you, he also said a lot of shit too xd, but he was right on those two points for sure.
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u/jeffersonairmattress 5h ago
Can't upvote because it sits in perfect harmony, so you get a comment instead.
9 times out of 10 you get slapped in the face, but that tenth time- it's like magic.
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u/Mahadragon 10h ago
The man Tyson knocked out here (Joe Cortez) became a referee and actually wound up reffing some of Tyson’s fights later on.
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u/Maliluma 6h ago
Not quite. Joe Cortez is a common name.
Referee Joe Cortez was born in 1945.
The announcer in this fight says this Joe Cortez is 15 years old, the same age as Tyson. Tyson was born in 1966.
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u/sky_badger 7h ago
Cortez's cornerman looks nervous enough for both of them
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u/Thatguymike84 1h ago
Well of course.
His fighter is a badass among 15 year olds, not absolute killers that just happen to inhabit 15 year old's bodies.
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u/lolomey 11h ago
I have a thirteen year old. I can’t even imagine him being near that level at 15. Amazing.
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u/Thatguymike84 1h ago
Same. Imagine catching your kid keying a car or some shit...and just being like "Heh. I...um...didn't see anything. Love you son. Sorry. I shouldn't have looked your way...that was my bad, honestly."
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u/westsideriderz15 11h ago
Anyone else not really see a huge blow here?
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u/Marksman1973 11h ago
Hard to see but he definitely lands a right hook perfectly in the chin where that nerve bundle is.
Get tapped there and your whole face feels like a fourth of July sparkler, get punched by Mike Tyson there.....
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u/Pitiful-Mongoose-488 11h ago
Junior Olympics the following year ... https://youtu.be/J_bA1UzKmIo?si=VmAuKdsucr-00tNA
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u/HollaWho 8h ago
Anytime I see Tyson videos his legs and footwork always stand out, and I don’t even know much about boxing. You can see how much power he’s getting from his legs and his body. This video is interesting because you can see him stepping into the eventual KO before his opponent is even in place. The opponent is side stepping with into the sweet spot. He’s got the vision and he’s still a kid.
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u/ThrowStonesonTV 7h ago
Any fighter will tell you, most of your punching power comes from your legs. Fighters never miss leg day.
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u/Nuggetdicks 3h ago
Wow would really like to hear from that guy who got knocked out when Tyson was a teen.
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u/Expansive_Rope_1337 11h ago
"okay billy, he's built like an actual greek god, so hopefully he just spends all his time on his physique and doesn't understand the sport that well"
8 seconds later
"oooh noo billy!"
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u/Repulsive_Parsley47 11h ago
Poor dude, boxing vs a kid who will be the heavyweight champion in 3 years.
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u/Ithinkso85 11h ago
This was the version some believed was matching up against Paul. —me too. Maybe not this version, but the post Nathan Downer interviewed version
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u/Illsquad 7h ago
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u/redditspeedbot 7h ago
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u/wezelboy 6h ago
You can see the hits at this speed. Two right hooks to the jaw. He probably would have gone down from the first one, but Tyson didn't leave it to chance.
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u/jeffersonairmattress 5h ago
I think Cortez was already foggy after the first combination connected and was just on autopilot punching air when he landed that lucky left jab on Tyson- Cortez didn't even know where Tyson was and kept flailing so it was cool of Mike to not put everything into the last right and pull the following flurry knowing he was already going down.
Also cool of u/illsquad to summon speedbot. Baby Mike was fast.
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u/Chemical_Tooth_3713 11h ago edited 11h ago
D'Amato found a blank canvas and painted a picture of determination and violence. And saved a life in the process.
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u/Neither_Sort_2479 11h ago
Mike was very, very far from a blank canvas, he's literally a freak of nature who was spotted by the right person and turned into an absolute machine. A coach definitely has a huge influence on his charges, but he can't make a champion out of anyone. Different people have different capabilities and limits. You can't make a good sword out of bad steel.
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u/jeffersonairmattress 4h ago
Agreed- you can't say Cus painted a blank canvas or molded Mike from a lump of raw clay- "tamed a wild beast" sounds more than a tad racist, so maybe the applicable idiom might be that D'Amato found a diamond in the rough. Or three or more if you include Patterson and Torres and the trail of trainers he tutored. A great thing for the sport that such a physical specimen could connect with such a coach. Cus' parents were from Puglia- maybe he was destined to be pugilistic royalty.
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u/RoyalLurker 10h ago
Did he even hit him?
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u/jeffersonairmattress 4h ago
https://files.catbox.moe/t0exbv.mp4
Left uppercut did most of the damage. Teen Tyson was fast as fuck.
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u/koos_die_doos 8h ago
Crazy thing is that you look at the video in slomo and none of the punches look particularly heavy.
I’m not a boxer and I know 100% that he hit really hard, but it looks more like pushing than punching.
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u/jeffersonairmattress 4h ago
https://files.catbox.moe/t0exbv.mp4
The left uppercut + right hook combination at 2:16 was deadly- Cortez was woozy from then on.
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u/Dtown80 7h ago
He pushed him down...no punch...
lol. the way his madre screams
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u/jeffersonairmattress 4h ago
https://files.catbox.moe/t0exbv.mp4
The left uppercut + right hook combination at 2:16 was deadly- Cortez was woozy from then on. Generous of Tyson to pull the last flurry and not try to kill the guy.
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u/Smithstar89 7h ago
If you fought Mike Tyson at any age, but for each year older he was, you got £1,000,000 extra if you won - what age Mike Tyson would you fight?
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u/jimmy_dimmick 6h ago
What's mad about this is that his style didn't really change much from this. Get close, take a shot or two if necessary to get in the range then bam
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u/budman40 2h ago
Tyson was one of the greatest. Some of the best times with my Dad was watching Boxing. My Dad and I are the only ones in our family that watched it. My Dad was a street fighter and my other brothers could care less about boxing. When we first saw Tyson my dad told me that this guy is going to be big. I hated it when he went with Don King. That began his downfall in my opinion because he didn't have the people that cared about him around anymore. He is still a badass though.
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u/OkaytoLook 2h ago
This reminds me of when my HS hoops team went up against a team that had Jalen Rose on it…… dude was just obviously coming from another level.
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u/no_crust_buster 2h ago
1986-1988 was peak Mike Tyson. Once Cus died, he dropped a notch in focus. When Jim Jacobs died in 1988, that was the last lynchpin of “Team Cus.” Rooney was fired, Don King sank his fangs deeper into Mike, and that was effectively the end of the fighter Cus trained.
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u/the_real_blackfrog 1h ago
KO with his left? As he was winding up for a hard right that wasn;t needed? Is that what I just saw?
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u/HndWrmdSausage 10h ago
I call horse shit!!!! That guy said o fuck this dudes bout to murder me imma fall down and comically spread my limbs. (I wish there was snow)
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u/No-Procedure562 6h ago
The very definition of walked onto a punch, barely looked like Mike made an effort. 🤌🏻
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u/Closed_Aperture 11h ago
Like him or hate him, you gotta admit, Mike Tyson was an absolute machine. Speed, power and technique. Not to mention, bro looked like a grown man by like age 12. I was 30 before I could grow a weak ass mustache.