Mike Tyson floored Lou Savarese inside eight seconds at HampdenHampden Park has staged some heavy beatings in its 117-year history, but nothing quite like this. Even the referee got thumped for good measure as Tyson refused to let up after the fight was stopped and the scene descended into a melee. Tyson kept throwing punches after referee John Coyle had stopped the fight"I remember it vividly," Savarese says. He carried on, but had no answer to the barrage of punches Tyson was raining down on him. "I thought the referee had stopped the fight because Tyson had hit him when he got in the middle of us.

Source: BBC June 24, 2020 07:30 UTC