England's Danny Williams pushed Mike Tyson towards retirement with an amazing fourth round knockout win in Louisville. The 31-year-old Londoner clobbered Tyson to the canvas and straight to hospital in a massive upset.
Williams withstood a terrific Tyson assault in the first round and 10 minutes later was finishing off the former world champion with a series of 26 unanswered punches.
Tyson sat crumpled against the ropes with blood leaking from his right eye until referee Dennis Alfred counted him out with nine seconds of the fourth round remaining. Tyson was taken for a precautionary CAT scan and inspection of his left knee, which his trainer Freddie Roach said he injured in the opening round.
Meanwhile, the unassuming Williams - given no chance by almost anybody – was preparing for stardom after gatecrashing the heavyweight elite. Williams said: "No doubt this is the greatest feeling in the world and by far my biggest moment in boxing.
"I said I would get him after the fourth round but we didn't quite make it that far. I proved people wrong - they have to take me seriously now. I was sure I was going to win. I trained for this kind of fight. Tyson still has tremendous punching power but I saw from the Holyfield fights that if you keep throwing punches he doesn't recover all that well.
"He hurt me for a few seconds but if you've seen my fights you know I'm always at my worst in the first few rounds. The referee was a joke - it seemed like he was against me but it doesn't matter now."
Filed by Johnny Proby
