Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson

[Grant]

Just watched this fight again and I have two observations. Douglas performance was worthy of a champion despite his underdog status, and one of the judges had Tyson ahead going in to what turned out to be the last round, another judge had it even. Ridiculous scoring IMO

[DrDuke]

Yeah, the scoring sucked. It was even possible to give Tyson only a KD round.

[milpool]

Yeah, the scoring sucked. It was even possible to give Tyson only a KD round.

I'd agree with that. I would struggle to give Tyson a single round other than the 8th.

[Bodyshot3]

Yeah, the scoring sucked. It was even possible to give Tyson only a KD round.

Don King wankfest, Don King fighter mate.
The cards were rigged.

Buster needed that stoppage unless he droppped Iron Mike six or seven times from start-to-finish.
Probably only been a split decision then.

Even after Mike was comprehensively wrecked...... King was (as far as I can recall) hollering and bellowing that it should be a no-contest and called as null and void

I don't miss that bell-end at all.

[bollocks]

Yeah, the scoring sucked. It was even possible to give Tyson only a KD round.

Don King wankfest, Don King fighter mate.
The cards were rigged.

Buster needed that stoppage unless he droppped Iron Mike six or seven times from start-to-finish.
Probably only been a split decision then.

Even after Mike was comprehensively wrecked...... King was (as far as I can recall) hollering and bellowing that it should be a no-contest and called as null and void

I don't miss that bell-end at all.

From memory he was also yelling his head off at Sulaiman to delcare it a long count and therefore null the result

[Ambling Alp II]

He did. King was trying to get it declared a no-contest. In the days that followed he realized that public opinion was against this, and he dropped that idea.

[Jeff_lacy_ko]

I remember US boxing writers taking king to task at the press conference when he was trying to steal the title from douglas.

Total pos like always

Yeah mike won 1 round maybe 2. He was domintaed and there is always at least one corrupt judge isnt there?

[rob h]

A few dubious moments in the fight are always glossed over and forgotten in history due to the fact that... Well the fact that he was the first to legitimately own Mike Tyson at a time that Tyson had mythical status. Give him his due though, a proper example of "mind over matter". Would any heavyweight in history have beaten Douglas that night?

[elmersalsa]

A few dubious moments in the fight are always glossed over and forgotten in history due to the fact that... Well the fact that he was the first to legitimately own Mike Tyson at a time that Tyson had mythical status. Give him his due though, a proper example of "mind over matter". Would any heavyweight in history have beaten Douglas that night?

I don't know if Buster could repeat that performance. He was very inconsistent.

[Ambling Alp II]

A few dubious moments in the fight are always glossed over and forgotten in history due to the fact that... Well the fact that he was the first to legitimately own Mike Tyson at a time that Tyson had mythical status. Give him his due though, a proper example of "mind over matter". Would any heavyweight in history have beaten Douglas that night?

Yes, but only a handful. Great performance.

[p4p1]

A few dubious moments in the fight are always glossed over and forgotten in history due to the fact that... Well the fact that he was the first to legitimately own Mike Tyson at a time that Tyson had mythical status. Give him his due though, a proper example of "mind over matter". Would any heavyweight in history have beaten Douglas that night?

Yes, but only a handful. Great performance.

Totally agree, he looked like an ATG that night unfortunately it was just for that night though.