Misc: 25 years since Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson
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CycloneErik
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I'm with this guy. Douglas was more angry than hurt. Just got hit by a big shot, but never looked like a man who got knocked out.
If the count was faster, Douglas beats that count, too.
Thanks to Don King's accusations, they did have a arbitrator review this, and they ruled that the count was fine.
Yes. It was amazing - and still amazes me when I see replays - how fast he could deliver that uppercut with that much force behind it.
You could tell he was really out of it with the knock out. He was right by the ropes and could have used them to get up but instead tries to hang on to the ref which was a really big signal to him that he needed to stop the fight.
Crazy how unprepared Tyson and his corner were for the fight. They didn't have an eye iron so they were using a rubber glove filled with ice water for the swelling around Tyson's eye.
CycloneErik
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One article I read said it was a condom.
Who manages a multi-million dollar enterprise that way?
Yep and IIRC someone scratched Tyson's swollen eye with a chain or something else while they were working on him and it aggravated it even more.
CycloneErik
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Don King, that's who. Check out this read I dug up. Tyson was surrounded by hacks by the time the Douglas fight rolled around.
http://articles.latimes.com/1989-01-08/sports/sp-309_1_trainers-tyson-boxing
Had one of his fights ever gone long enough to need one?
It is no excuse, but it is there...
Lots of memories of this very average video game:
The Sega Genesis Holyfield boxing game was awesome though.
The Sega Genesis Holyfield boxing game was awesome though.
That's crazy, how do you hire a guy with absolutely no experience to train someone at that level?
Would've loved to have seen Foreman take on Tyson.
Forman said Mike was like "Smokin'" Joe Frazier in size and style.
After Buster used his size to defeat Tyson I'm guessing George was right to want a piece of him.
Forman said Mike was like "Smokin'" Joe Frazier in size and style.
After Buster used his size to defeat Tyson I'm guessing George was right to want a piece of him.
Here's another article on it. I didn't actually see the fight (was young at the time and without cable).
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/12/sports/boxing-officials-could-overturn-defeat-of-tyson.html?pagewanted=1
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/12/sports/boxing-officials-could-overturn-defeat-of-tyson.html?pagewanted=1
I hated Ali in those days and was ecstatic when Spinks beat him. I have since flipped 180 degrees on Ali. He is/was one of a kind.
Ali shouldn't have still been fighting at that point.
The early to mid 90's heavyweights was not the golden era of heavyweights but it was a fantastic time for that class. You had Tyson, Holyfield, Lennox Lewis, Riddick Bowe among others as the top dogs and they had some FANTASTIC fights between them
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This fight was right after Don King had managed to completely isolate Tyson from the people that had managed and trained him. Cus had died and Bill Cayton and Kevin Rooney were forced out. If you had watched the other Tyson fights you could see when watching that replay that Mike was completely unprepared for that fight.
This, Tyson had won the fight. Game over. IMO that is what started the end for boxing. complete bs
Watch that video again, Douglas was on a knee earlier in the count, he was just giving himself some extra time. If the guy was counting faster he woulda been up sooner.
