Boxers like Mike Tyson have served as a benchmark for what every newcomer should aspire to achieve: a career defined by the power of his fists, not by the ability to move his tongue when he makes comments that he can’t hold back in the ring.

Boxers like Mike Tyson have served as a benchmark for what every newcomer should aspire to achieve: a career defined by the power of his fists, not by the ability to move his tongue when he makes comments that he can’t hold back in the ring.

Brian Nielsen’s career remained almost flawless until it was his turn to step into the ring against an Iron Mike who, at forty years old, still had a lot to offer in the world of boxing.

In today’s video we bring you the downfall of one of the greatest figures of Danish boxing, against the American legend who very few managed to beat.

Brian Nielsen won the bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, and then began his professional career in September of that same year at the age of twenty-seven.

Moving forward in his professional career, Brian managed to beat greats like Ross Puritty, James Smith, Tony Tubbs, Tim Witherspoon, and even the legendary Larry Holmes, where it is perhaps important to note that he was already forty-seven years old at the time of the fight.

Nielsen managed to equal Rocky Marciano’s record of forty-nine undefeated victories. But, he was not satisfied, he intended to surpass the record of this great champion.

Plans that were cut short when Dicky Ryan defeated him in June 1999, during the tenth round.