Frank Bruno vs. Mike Tyson II championship but was knocked out in the fifth round. After fighting Lennox Lewis for his WBC title in Cardiff Arms Park in 1993 and losing, Bruno would have to wait two years for another title shot. He fought Oliver McCall, who defeated Lewis in an upset in 1994 for the WBC title, on September 2, 1995, in London. McCall had claimed he was going to get revenge on the English through Bruno after Gerald McClellan suffered permanent brain damage in a title fight against Nigel Benn in February that year, but Bruno outboxed McCall to win his first world championship.
Mike Tyson vs. Buster Mathis Jr. Mathis was unable to answer the referee's 10 count and Tyson was awarded the victory via knockout. After his victory over Mathis, Tyson's promoter officially announced that he would receive his first Heavyweight title fight against WBC Heavyweight Champion Frank Bruno in March 1996. Tyson and Bruno had previously met in 1989 with Tyson's Undisputed Heavyweight Championship on the line. Tyson dominated Bruno for the entire duration of that fight before knocking him out in the fifth round. In the rematch, Tyson again dominated Bruno, this time knocking him out in the third round to capture the WBC Heavyweight title.