Just Finished Watching Buster Douglas vs. Mike Tyson 1990

Arodd · Feb 23, 2007

Man what a fight.

Buster was a 42-1 underdog. Gets knocked down by Iron Mike in round 8, comes back in round 9 and fuckin rocks Tyson a couple times, only to knock the dude out in round 10.

Knocked Tyson to the canvas for the first time in his career.
And the announcer was great.

Amazing fight...when will boxing like this come back? Ever?

42-1 underdog, one of, if not the biggest upset in boxing history. Great fight, glad I caught this before I hit the sack.

WCBias · Feb 23, 2007

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA

I just got home from the Hard Rock and my stupid ass watched the same thing!

Couldn't wait to post those 42-1 odds here, you beat me to it.

Arodd · Feb 23, 2007

haha we're awesome

PokerKingJim · Feb 23, 2007

Douglas fought the fight of his life. Solid one-twos all night long. He would have beaten many all time heavyweights on that night. Mike just had no answer for it. My favorite tidbit about the fight is listening to Douglas cornerman barking throughout the fight. Nonstop yelling at Douglas the entire fight with shit like "You in charge James, you in charge" and "he ain't shit James", "you the man, you the man". Classic stuff

ElJefe · Feb 23, 2007

Still one of the best fights to watch when it is on. I think everyone remembers where they were when originally watching that fight on HBO. The moment the referee counted 10 and waved his arms, you just couldn't believe what you were seeing.

And all the postfight interviews that went on with everyone...

Lampley: "Mike Tyson's corner was just informed that it was a KO, the count reached 10...KO"

Buster: "I knocked him on his ass!"

And how about when Don King tried to suspend the results of the fight because of the supposed long count when Buster was knocked down. Back then, that upset screwed up what would have been the first Tyson-Holyfield fight coming up after it. Huge money down the drain for both guys at the time.

tgbn · Feb 23, 2007

Tyson took the fight for granted and paid the price.
It was a combination of one boxer fighting the bout of his life and the other coming in very very unprepared.

People need to remember as well how Bert Sugar went into his boxing magazine after Don King and Sulaiman for being crooks; so much that he succeeded by himself in keeping Douglas the new undisputed champ.

King didn't liked it one bit, and to get even send two or three heavies to Sugar's magazine offices and they punched him in the head.
Now that wasn't good sport, Don.

SoCal · Feb 23, 2007

my favorite sporting upset of all time. Douglas dedicated that fight to his mother, who had died of a stroke shortly before the bout.

douglas was not scared which was very unusual for a tyson opponent. you could see it in his eyes during the fight. he was inspired by his mother's passing and nothing was going to stop him. awesome!

CoolBreeze22 · Feb 23, 2007

No clue if it's true or not but a former boxer told me that Tyson contracted an STD a few days before the fight and that the med's played a role in the outcome. Either way Douglass was incredible that night.

PointGiven · Feb 24, 2007

CoolBreeze22 said:
No clue if it's true or not but a former boxer told me that Tyson contracted an STD a few days before the fight and that the med's played a role in the outcome. Either way Douglass was incredible that night.

lmfao

wtf?

anyway.....his trainer had just died.......man was like a father to him.....custamado was his name I believe

thats why he lost on that night

and I seen it live on HBO.....priceless

I also seen the 2nd holyfield fight live when he bit him

I still have it on VHS somewhere......:lolBIG:

JohnnyB · Feb 24, 2007

daddyjj420 said:
custamado was his name I believe

Cus D'Amato

LogansRun · Feb 24, 2007

I think it was the IBF who recognized Douglas right away even with the Don King bullshit about the 10 seconds.

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