Evander Holyfield defeated Mike Tyson via 11th-round TKO on November 9, 1996, at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to win the WBA Heavyweight Title. Tyson was guaranteed $30 million, and Holyfield was guaranteed $12 million. A crowd of 16,103 at the MGM Grand produced a gate of $14,150,700. The fight was televised live on pay-per-view by Showtime. It generated 1.59 million buys and produced over $79 million. The Ring named Tyson vs. Holyfield Fight of the Year and Upset of the Year for 1996. Holyfield

Anthony Joshua’s first big test. Anthony Joshua vs Wladimir Klitschko was a professional boxing match contested on 29 April 2017 at Wembley Stadium in London, with Joshua’s IBF and the vacant WBA (Super) and IBO heavyweight titles on the line. Joshua won the match via technical knockout (TKO) in the eleventh round with 90,000 fans in attendance. Klitschko announced his retirement from boxing a few months after the fight. The bout was named Fight of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Ass