Tony Tucker
"TNT"
- Born
- 1958
- Died
- —
- Nationality
- USA
- Career
- 1980–1998
A decorated American amateur who turned professional in 1980, Tucker stopped Buster Douglas to win the vacant IBF heavyweight title in 1987. His reign lasted 64 days before Mike Tyson defeated him in their unification bout. He remained a contender in the 1990s, challenging Lennox Lewis and Herbie Hide. His 65-bout professional archive includes one no contest.
Titles & Honours
- IBF Heavyweight Champion (1987–1987)
- Pan American Games Gold (1979)
- Amateur World Cup Gold (1979)
Career Timeline
1980–1998- Milestone
Pan American Games Gold (1979)
Year from profile honours.
- Milestone
Amateur World Cup Gold (1979)
Year from profile honours.
- Milestone
First recorded professional bout
vs Chuck Gardner · W KO
- Milestone
25th recorded win
vs Jimmy Young · UD. Newspaper decisions excluded.
- Title history
Title reign begins
IBF Heavyweight Champion (1987–1987). Year from profile title history; exact title-winning bout not identified.
- Signature fight
vs Buster Douglas
W TKO10 Buster Douglas (1987) · Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
- Signature fight
vs Mike Tyson
L UD12 Mike Tyson (1987) · Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S.
- Signature fight
vs Lennox Lewis
L UD12 Lennox Lewis (1993) · Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S.
- Milestone
50th recorded win
vs George Stephens · TKO. Newspaper decisions excluded.
- Milestone
Latest recorded bout
vs Billy Wright · W KO. Not necessarily the retirement date.
Derived from the current archive and profile honours. Title-reign years are not exact bout dates; title claims are not independently verified. Signature fights use existing profile selections, or clearly labelled wins over other archived fighters when no selections exist. Year-only dates retain their original precision.
Photo Archive
No freely licensed photographs of Tony Tucker are available in this archive.
Fight-by-Fight Record
| Date | Result | Opponent | Method | Round | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-11-01 | W | Chuck Gardner | KO | 3 | Caesars Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1980-12-02 | W | Jesse Clark | KO | 1 | Sports Arena, Toledo, Ohio, U.S. |
| 1980-12-11 | W | Max Smith | KO | 5 | International Amphitheatre, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1981-01-16 | W | Victor Rodriguez | TKO | 2 | HemisFair Arena, San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| 1981-01-29 | W | Willie Kents | KO | 1 | Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1981-02-23 | W | Robert Evans | TKO | 6 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1981-04-09 | W | Al Jones | TKO | 1 | Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1981-04-30 | W | Chip Tyler | TKO | 7 | Hacienda Resort Hotel and Casino, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1981-08-22 | W | Jerry Hunter | KO | 1 | Glacier Arena, Traverse City, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1981-09-16 | W | Harvey Steichen | TKO | 3 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1981-10-17 | W | Frank Farmer | KO | 1 | Traverse City, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1982-05-18 | W | Grady Daniels | TKO | 5 | Tropicana, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1982-06-05 | W | Charles Atlas | TKO | 1 | War Memorial Arena, Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| 1982-06-15 | W | James Dixon | PTS | 8 | Tropicana, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1982-06-30 | W | Lupe Guerra | TKO | 2 | War Memorial Arena, Syracuse, New York, U.S. |
| 1982-07-08 | W | Richard Cade | TKO | 7 | Sands, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1982-08-12 | NC | Danny Sutton | TKO | 3 | Hyatt Regency, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 1983-11-07 | W | James Holly | TKO | 1 | Da Vinci Manor, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1983-12-01 | W | Lynwood Jones | KO | 5 | Da Vinci Manor, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1983-12-20 | W | James Dixon | TKO | 6 | Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1984-02-24 | W | Larry Givens | KO | 4 | Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1984-03-15 | W | Sam Jeter | KO | 1 | Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1984-04-19 | W | Walter Santemore | TKO | 1 | Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1984-05-09 | W | Dave Johnson | TKO | 2 | Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1984-06-15 | W | Eddie Lopez | KO | 9 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1984-09-22 | W | Jimmy Young | UD | 10 | Gerald R. Ford Fieldhouse, Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1984-11-02 | W | Danny Sutton | UD | 10 | Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| 1984-11-02 | W | O. T. Davis | KO | 1 | Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1985-06-28 | W | Bobby Crabtree | TKO | 4 | Hammond, Indiana, U.S. |
| 1985-10-19 | W | David Jaco | TKO | 3 | Stade Louis II, Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 1986-02-27 | W | Eddie Richardson | UD | 10 | Cobo Arena, Detroit, Michigan, U.S. |
| 1986-07-10 | W | Eddie Richardson | KO | 4 | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| 1986-08-07 | W | Otis Bates | KO | 2 | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| 1986-09-26 | W | James Broad | UD | 12 | Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1987-05-30 | W | Buster Douglas | TKO | 10 | Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1987-08-01 | L | Mike Tyson | UD | 12 | Las Vegas Hilton, Winchester, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1989-12-12 | W | Dino Homsey | KO | 3 | Memorial Sports Arena, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| 1990-01-08 | W | Calvin Jones | KO | 5 | Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1990-03-08 | W | Mike Evans | UD | 10 | Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1990-07-19 | W | Mike Rouse | TKO | 5 | Kingdome, Seattle, Washington, U.S. |
| 1991-01-28 | W | Lionel Washington | KO | 1 | Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1991-04-29 | W | James Ray Thomas | KO | 1 | Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California, U.S. |
| 1991-06-03 | W | Orlin Norris | SD | 12 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1992-02-15 | W | Kimmuel Odum | TKO | 2 | The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1992-04-10 | W | Mike Faulkner | KO | 2 | Toreo de Cuatro Caminos, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 1992-04-22 | W | Jesus Contreras | TKO | 6 | Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S. |
| 1992-06-26 | W | Oliver McCall | SD | 10 | CSU Convocation Center, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| 1992-09-12 | W | Everett Martin | PTS | 10 | Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1992-11-07 | W | Paul Poirier | TKO | 4 | Caesars Tahoe, Stateline, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1992-12-13 | W | Frankie Swindell | RTD | 6 | The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1993-05-08 | L | Lennox Lewis | UD | 12 | Thomas & Mack Center, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1993-12-18 | W | David Graves | TKO | 2 | Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla City, Mexico |
| 1994-02-19 | W | George Stephens | TKO | 1 | Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina, U.S. |
| 1994-07-02 | W | Cecil Coffee | TKO | 2 | The Mirage, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1994-12-10 | W | Dan Murphy | TKO | 3 | Estadio de Béisbol, Monterrey, Mexico |
| 1995-04-08 | L | Bruce Seldon | RTD | 7 | Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada, U.S. |
| 1995-12-16 | L | Henry Akinwande | UD | 10 | CoreStates Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| 1996-02-24 | L | Orlin Norris | MD | 10 | Coliseum, Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
| 1996-06-29 | W | David Dixon | KO | 1 | Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Indio, California, U.S. |
| 1996-12-16 | W | Tyrone Campbell | KO | 3 | Fantasy Springs Resort Casino, Indio, California, U.S. |
| 1997-06-28 | L | Herbie Hide | TKO | 2 | Sports Village, Norwich, England |
| 1997-11-18 | W | Abdul Muhaymin | UD | 10 | Music City Mix Factory, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 1997-12-16 | W | Jerry Haynes | TKO | 3 | Music City Mix Factory, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
| 1998-01-31 | L | John Ruiz | TKO | 11 | Ice Palace, Tampa, Florida, U.S. |
| 1998-05-07 | W | Billy Wright | KO | 1 | Sam's Town Hotel & Casino, Tunica, Mississippi, U.S. |
Showing 65 of 65 recorded fights · last updated 2026-10-23. Imported record tables are not independently verified and may be incomplete. Early-era logs include newspaper decisions (NWS), which are not counted in the official totals above.
Record notes
Fight record last retrieved: 2026-10-23. Title histories remain subject to archival review.
Historical-era totals differ between record-keeping conventions (newspaper decisions, exhibitions).
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