4/2/2023 0 Comments Mike tyson vs buster douglasAnd what a pity it is for us fans and for the two losers of arguably the two biggest upsets in world heavyweight title fight history.įor what it’s worth, here’s a shot at what might have happened if both sequels did happen:įoreman refuses to fall for Ali’s ‘rope-a-dope’ tricks this time, yet he is still seriously compromised by his hidden admiration for Ali, and he loses a wide decision in a dull fight. In this installment of Playing for Something, Buster Douglas, as told to The Undefeateds Kelley Evans, opens up about his mother and how she motivated him. Would an in-shape, focused, and hungry Douglas have always beaten Tyson, or was it a case of lightning striking once against an unmotivated, screwing-himself-silly (with Japanese Geisha Girls mostly) vastly rich heavyweight king who had zero desire to even get into the ring that night in 1990? Again, we will never know. Douglas, distracted by his courtroom battle with Don King (the infamous “long count” issue from that eighth round) and happily (or unhappily) eating himself out of anything like fighting shape, was wiped out by “The Real Deal.” But would things have been different if – and, yeah, it’s a big if – Buster had remained disciplined and had got that immediate rematch with Tyson? Read: Luis Nery TKOs “Crazy A” Hovhannisyan in 11th round - Boxing Resultsĭouglas, as we know, instead fought Evander Holyfield next, and he was in no shape to put up any real fight. And as with Ali’s miracle in Zaire, fans wanted to see a sequel to Buster’s miracle in Tokyo. There was more shock felt here than there was when Ali removed Foreman’s cloak of invincibility 16 years before. In terms of the two biggest world heavyweight title fight returns that didn’t happen, we must look at Ali-Foreman II and James “Buster” Douglas-Mike Tyson II as the biggest ‘what ifs?’Īs fans know, this Friday marks the 32nd anniversary of the biggest upset in boxing history that surreal afternoon in Tokyo, Japan when whopping great underdog Douglas (who was a 42/1 or worse outsider, with fans having a tough time finding any place to put down a wedge on a Buster win, should they be crazy enough to want to do so) got up from a controversial knockdown and proceeded to ruin Tyson inside ten rounds. Over the course of boxing history, most of the great heavyweight fights saw a rematch a return battle: Tunney and Dempsey fought twice, as did Louis and Schmeling, and Marciano and Walcott, and Ali and Liston, and Ali and Frazier, who of course fought three times, and so on.
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