There are few moments in the history of modern combat sports as memorably infamous as Mike Tyson’s 1997 rematch against Evander Holyfield. The two men faced off for the first time in 1996, just a little more than a year after Tyson’s release from prison in a massive pay-per-view spectacle simply titled ‘Finally’, with Holyfield winning that bout via 11th Round TKO in a largely one-sided affair.
Their second fight, a little less than eight months later, picked up where the first left off—with Holyfield out-boxing Tyson and (once again) cutting him over the eye due to what referee Mills Lane deemed to be an accidental clash of heads.