![]() As Tyson walked forward, Douglas measured him with a few jabs before landing a devastating uppercut that snapped Tyson's head upward, stopping Tyson in his tracks. It was all Douglas! Who was dismantling Tyson before our very eyes! Then in the 8th round as Douglas moved in for the kill, Tyson unloaded an uppercut from hell & down went Buster, he got up at the count of 9 & was saved by the bell.But in round 9 it was business as usual for Douglas as he pounded Tyson all over the ring & in the 10th he dropped the axe onto the "Baddest Man on the Planet". What followed left us all with our jaws sagging wide open as Buster Douglas proceeded to dominate the action from the 1st bell smashing punch after punch into Tyson's head. ![]() Buster came into the ring looking trim & focused for the 1st time in his life & Tyson looked totally disinterested as if he'd just came from a late night party. Additionally, the mother of his son was facing a severe kidney ailment, and he had contracted the flu on the day before the fight. In the time leading up to the fight, Douglas faced a number of setbacks, including the death of his mother, Lula Pearl, 23 days before the fight. This fight had everything by way of drama, during & after. And 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.Description : Here we have an original super rare onsite poster from the biggest upset in boxing history that took place at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on February 11, 1990, in which then undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion Mike Tyson lost via knockout to the 42/1 underdog Buster Douglas in what is widely considered one of the biggest upsets in sports history, never mind boxing history by far! Who on earth would have believed that Iron Mike Tyson was going to be defeated by a 42/1 underdog in Douglas who justified these odds by his hot & cold approach to the sport. 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: Will Tyson Fury finally fight Oleksandr Usyk now?ĭouglas, 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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