TYSON V. BERBICK, NOV. 22, 1986: With a cannonade of patient but unrelenting aggressiveness, Tyson had overwhelmed Trevor Berbick, twice dropping the defending WBC champion and leaving him, at 2:35 of the second round, standing but unstable, albeit secure in the embrace of referee Mills Lane. "If I had let the fight continue," said Lane, a Reno district attorney, "if I let him get hit with more of those terrible punches, it would have been criminal."

--From "Getting a Belt Out of Life" by Pat Putnam, Sports Illustrated, December 1, 1986

Photograph by Manny Millan