Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson

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Bruce Seldon vs. Mike Tyson, billed as Liberation, was a professional boxing match fought on September 7, 1996 for the WBA heavyweight championship. Tyson defeated Seldon in a 1st-round knockout, and shortly afterwards Seldon would retire from boxing. The fight was part of a pay-per-view event produced by Don King Productions and carried on pay-per-view by Showtime. The fight is notable in the fact that in attendance was rapper and actor Tupac Shakur, who would be fatally shot just hours after the fight, following an altercation with Crips member Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson at the casino. Shakur died six days later on September 13 from ballistic trauma.

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