"This is the moment I waited for all my life since I started boxing…Berbick was very strong…I never expected him to be as strong as me…every punch I threw with bad intentions to a vital area…I aimed for his ear…I wanted to bust his eardrum…Every punch had bad intentions…My record will last for immortality, it’ll never be broken…I want to live forever…I refuse to lose…I would have had to be carried out dead to lose…I was coming to destroy and win the Heavyweight Championship of the World, which I done...Read more"
~ Mike Tyson after defeating Berbick and becoming the youngest heavyweight champion of the world
