TYSON V. SPINKS, JUNE 27, 1988: Unleashed at last, Tyson the Terrible knocked out [Michael] Spinks in just 91 seconds -- four seconds fewer than it took Jeffrey Osborne to sing the prefight national anthem. The finish could have been even more abrupt except that Spinks, a 3 1/2-1 underdog, had the grit to get up the first time Tyson knocked him down, with about a minute gone. As it was, in all of boxing history, only three heavyweight championship fights ended faster.

--From "I'm Gonna Hurt this Guy" by Pat Putnam, Sports Illustrated, July 4, 1988

Photograph by Manny Millan