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That was a one hell of a punch to end Berbick’s boxing career On 22 November 1986, a 20-year-old Mike Tyson didn’t just win the WBC heavyweight title — he annihilated Trevor Berbick so completely that the champion’s legs failed him three times from a single left hook. At the Las Vegas Hilton, the undefeated destroyer (27-0) charged out with murderous intent against the reigning champion. After a one-sided first round in which Tyson battered him across the ring, Berbick walked to his corner and stuck his tongue out at the kid in a moment of pure frustration and disrespect. Tyson’s intensity only sharpened. In the second, a right to the body set up the left hook that dropped Berbick. The Jamaican staggered up, collapsed again, rose once more, then fell like a man whose equilibrium had been switched off. Referee Mills Lane stopped it at 2:35. Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history. In the ring he kissed his co-manager and dedicated the night to the late Cus D’Amato. Afterwards he told the press it was his best fight yet: “I was so intense. I was out for blood. I refused to be beat.” Berbick admitted he had fought “a silly fight” trying to prove his manhood. The belt was Tyson’s, and the heavyweight division had a new terror.