What was Mike Tyson's greatest win ?

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Floyd Patterson is still the youngest HW champion. When Tyson beat Berbick, Spinks was still the universally recognized champ, lineal champ that is. So Tyson in actuality never became HW champ until he beat the man, and that was Spinks.

Lineal title>ABC alphabet title.

So I go with Spinks as Tyson's greatest win to become the 2nd youngest HW champ in 1st round ko.

Tyson is the youngest heavyweight champion ever in my mind and in most people's minds.

Doesn't mean it's true. Boxing is a man who beat the man who beat the man sport. Alphabet gangs don't change that. Tyson wasn't champ until he had beaten Spinks who beat Holmes who won it beating Norton after Ali retired who had beaten Leon who had beaten Ali who had beaten Foreman who had beaten Frazier who had beaten Ali who had beaten Liston.

Just because some corrupt organization strips a still active champion doesn't make the new guy a champion if the word is to mean anything. See Darius M being stripped and belts being given to Jones as a classic example.

The only "youngest" title Tyson really has is the youngest heavy ever to lose the crown.