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Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 24 Sep 2021, 04:35
by 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
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 24 Sep 2021, 05:07
by DrDuke
Yeah, the scoring sucked. It was even possible to give Tyson only a KD round.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 24 Sep 2021, 10:48
by milpool
DrDuke wrote: ↑24 Sep 2021, 05:07
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.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 04 Oct 2021, 14:30
by 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.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 07 Oct 2021, 04:08
by bollocks
Bodyshot3 wrote: ↑04 Oct 2021, 14:30
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
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 07 Oct 2021, 23:07
by 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.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 08 Oct 2021, 11:20
by 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?
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 09 Oct 2021, 19:54
by 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?
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 10 Oct 2021, 12:44
by elmersalsa
rob h wrote: ↑09 Oct 2021, 19:54
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.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 10 Oct 2021, 21:09
by Ambling Alp II
rob h wrote: ↑09 Oct 2021, 19:54
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.
Re: Buster Douglas V Mike Tyson
Posted: 11 Oct 2021, 01:20
by p4p1
Ambling Alp II wrote: ↑10 Oct 2021, 21:09
rob h wrote: ↑09 Oct 2021, 19:54
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.