Mitchell Rose vs. Butterbean was a professional boxing match that occurred at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1995.Rose died on February 12,2021,possibly of symptoms related to the Coronavirus.

Mitchell Rose is a former New York Golden Gloves boxer who earned instant fame with a shocking second round tko win over the the popular Eric "Butterbean" Esch.The fight ended in the second round with Butterbean slumped in a corner unable to defend himself from Rose's attack.The bout occurred on December 15,1995 at Madison Square Garden in New York City.The event was covered by the The New York Times.^[10]

On the same boxing card,Oscar De La Hoya successfully defended his World Boxing Organization world lightweight title against Jesse James Leija.Earlier in the same evening Arturo Gatti won the International Boxing Federation junior lightweight title by defeating Tracy Harris Patterson.Butterbean had a record of 15 wins and 0 losses before his match with Rose and had ko'd Louis Monaco two weeks before.

Mitchell Rose prepared for his bout with Butterbean by sparring Buster Mathis, Jr. for countless rounds before the Mike Tyson vs. Buster Mathis,Jr. bout.Rose claims that he won many rounds in sparring during their practice sessions.

Mitchell Rose vs. Butterbean occurred on a Friday night five days before the start of winter.There

were 16,027 fans in attendance.There were

a number of celebrities in attendance,to include:Walter Cronkite,Mel Gibson,Eddie Murphy,Jeff Bridges and Mike Wallace.

Mitchell is a retired amateur and professional boxer from Brooklyn.He competed professionally from 1991 to 2006 and campaigned in the heavyweight division.He was a journeyman,who was always matched against tough opponents.He boxed against Eric “Butterbean”Esch,Monte Barrett,Terrence Lewis,Wayne Llewellyn,Darroll Wilson, Gerald Nobles,Louis Llovet,James Clancy and Costa Philippou,with his best win being against Butterbean.

Rose resurfaced in the news after fighting Mike Tyson outside a nightclub in 2002.Rose escaped with a torn jacket but did suffer injuries before filing a lawsuit.Rose wrote a book in 2008 called "Mike Tyson Tried To Kill My Daddy" where he talks about his street fight with Tyson,his upset win over Butterbean,and the politics of boxing.Rose has produced and performed in a number of online rap videos,including a 2015 holiday Christmas rap video on YouTube set in Brooklyn called "Christmas in the Projects."Rose has three children.

Arturo Gatti went on to make over seven million dollars in his boxing career.

He competed against Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2005 in Mayweather's first pay-per-view bout and lost by sixth round technical knockout.Mayweather went on to become the richest athlete in history.Mayweather's wealth has been documented by the The Wall Street Journal and Fortune (magazine).

Gatti died under suspicious circumstances in 2009.The

only book that gives a detailed biographical account of his life is Intimate Warfare,which was published in 2017.Louis Monaco knocked out Buster Douglas with a punch after the bell had rang for the first round in a bout that was held in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1997.Douglas could not recover and was awarded the fight by disqualification.Douglas ko'd Mike Tyson in 1990 to win the WBC/WBA/IBF and lineal heavyweight world heavyweight championship.

Mitchell Rose is the first person to ever defeat Butterbean.Butterbean

went on to have seventy seven professional wins.Butterbean tko'd

Peter McNeeley in 1999.Mike Tyson vs. Peter McNeeley was a pay per view boxing match on August 19,1995 that gained 1.55 million buys and earned $96 million dollars.Tyson defeated McNeeley by first round knockout.Larry Holmes vs Butterbean occurred in 2002 and went the ten round distance with Holmes winning a unanimous decision.Butterbean scored a tenth round knockdown.Holmes is one of thirty one lineal heavyweight champions over the past one hundred years.

Matthew O'Neil,the #1 ranked editor for Everipedia,reached out to Rose in 2020 via Facebook.Rose is still actively involved in the boxing community and he attended a boxing event in January 2020 that was attended by former boxing champion Gerald McClellan and his sister Lisa McClellan.O'Neil was on The Grueling Truth and AkHi TV in 2020;AkHi TV is based out of New York City.O'Neil's boxing career was covered by Intuboxing in 2020.^[28] Mitchell Rose has been quoted about his fight with Butterbean: