Tony Tucker vs. Bruce Seldon

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Tony Tucker rankings
Org. Pos. As of Published
1+ Mth. Old
WBA 1 31.12.1994 by 02.02.1995
WBC N/A N/A N/A
IBF N/A N/A N/A
Ring N/A N/A N/A
2+ Mth. Old
WBA 1 30.11.1994 by 07.01.1995
WBC N/A N/A N/A
IBF N/A N/A N/A
Ring N/A N/A N/A
3+ Mth. Old
WBA 1 31.10.1994 by 09.12.1994
WBC 1 30.11.1994 by 18.12.1994
IBF N/A N/A N/A
Ring N/A N/A N/A

Tony Tucker 243 lbs lost to Bruce Seldon 236 lbs by RTD at 3:00 in round 7 of 12

  • Date: 1995-04-08
  • Location: Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Referee: Mills Lane
  • Judge: Jerry Roth 66-67
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  • Judge: Duane Ford 66-67
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  • Judge: Art Lurie 65-68
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Notes

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  • On November 5, 1994, 45-year-old George Foreman knocked out Michael Moorer in 10 rounds to win the WBA and IBF heavyweight titles. On January 27, 1995, the WBA Championship Committee unanimously denied Foreman's request to fight Axel Schulz on April 22 and threatened to strip him of the title if he didn't make his first title defense against the top available contender. Foreman appealed the decision, but his appeal was unanimously rejected by the WBA Executive Committee on March 4. Foreman chose to go ahead with the fight against Schulz and was stripped of the title.
  • A teleconference was held on March 14 to announce that Tony Tucker, the No. 1 contender, would fight Bruce Seldon, the No. 2 contender, for the vacant WBA heavyweight title on April 8 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.[1][2]
  • The card included four other world title fights: Felix Trinidad vs. Roger Turner for the IBF welterweight title, Julio Cesar Chavez vs. Giovanni Parisi for the WBC super lightweight title, Terry Norris vs. Luis Santana for the WBC super welterweight title and Oliver McCall vs. Larry Holmes for the WBC heavyweight title.
  • Bernard Fernandez of the Philadelphia Daily News reported:
Seldon (32-3, 28 knockouts), from Atlantic City, captured the vacant World Boxing Association heavyweight championship Saturday night at Caesars Palace with a TKO after seven rounds. Ring physician Flip Homansky examined Tucker's badly swollen left eye after Round 7 and deemed it to be too badly damaged for the bout to continue.
"I was checking the fight for three rounds and I was concerned anout the orbital rim and nasal fractures," Homansky said. "I was more concerned (Tucker's) eye than the title shot. Tucker was gradually losing vision out of the left eye. It was going to close totally. And that is just how I had to handle it."
Tucker (52-3, 43 KOs), a former International Boxing Federation champion, said he should have been allowed to continue. He said he will file a protest with the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
"I was winning the fight clearly," Tucker complained. "I was ahead on all the scorecards. They'd better give me a rematch. It was wrong for them to stop the fight."
Boy, Tucker's eye really must have been giving him trouble if his reading of the cards had him ahead. In truth, Seldon, who employed a laser-accurate left jab to rearrange Tucker's face, led by one, one and three points at the time of the stoppage. It was an impressive performance by Seldon, who weathered a few rough spots early in the fight and seemed to be gathering momentum with each passing round.
But Tucker is managed by promoter Don King's son, Carl, which might explain why the elder King was calling for a rematch "o take all doubt out of anyone's mind that Bruce Seldon deserves to be heavyweight champion of the world."
Seldon, who was fighting for the title that opened when George Foreman was stripped for refusing to defend against the top-rated Tucker, appeared stunned that anyone could believe there was a taint to his greatest triumph. But he said he had no objection to giving Tucker another shot.
"If I have to beat him up again, I'll beat him up again," Seldon said. "It's all right with me."
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