https://streamable.com/xyn0hi It is so picturesque. A perfectly timed uppercut followed through with a beautiful combination that landed with pinpoint accuracy. It's one of the best in heavyweight history. Your thoughts?
It was a blueprint on how to beat Iron Mike Tyson, many dream fights for Mike against the past all time greats were already figured who would have won and why? It was also a lesson to future champions, take every fight serious, your opponent might be well prepared and hungry.
You bet it was amazing...despite the revisionista's downplaying and discrediting of Douglas and his magical evening...based, I'm sure, on his abysmal shape and showing in his next fight vs Holyfield,...and the attempted rebuilding of Mike Tyson...I'll never forget that almost childlike, open-mouthed sense of wonder that I experienced that night of Feb. 11 1990...watching the almost unbelievable, dramatic show...the unforgetable spectacle that Buster Douglas treated us all to...in thoroughly outclassing, and trouncing the Baddest Man on the Planet....and then getting emotional when talking about his mama afterwards...this fight had everything you'd ever want or ask for...and it was indeed amazing!!
That fight was the poster boy example of underestimating an opponent the face of the effects of under-training.
It was a masterclass of a performance. Using lateral movement to take away Tyson's left hooks while controlling him with a jab and then smashing him with uppercuts and right hands as he moved into range It's sad Tyson apologists downplay the boxing 101 that is at play here Douglas could of been an ATG with the right dedication.
It was an example of how good a fighter can look so long as he knows what the other man is going to do before he does it. He kept second guessing correctly. Even more than that, it is an example of going further. making a fighter do what you want him to do to. Kind of like what Tyson was doing to everyone else. Douglas just knew. He controls Tyson with feints. He put Tyson on the end of his punches. Made it look easy. And there was nothing Tyson could do about it. But aside from all of this, it is very interesting to me that as a champion, Tyson himself was kept busier than his challengers. A lot of them were sitting on rankings without meeting good fighters. So many of them were vastly underprepared for World title fights. Holmes was dug up. Tubbs, Thomas, Bruno, Spinks has not fought decent opponents for years. They were horribly prepared when you think about it. Berbick, Williams, Smith, Tucker and Douglas were really about the best equipped to fight Tyson. There’s only two good results from those five fights. Smith and Tucker made Tyson look ordinary. Douglas knocked him out. Seems to me, Douglas was ready to fight Tyson. All The guys douglas fought were trying to beat Douglas. And Buster was winning. Buster was fighting just as often and doing more quality rounds in his previous fights whilst Tyson was mowing down half beat guys in one way traffic. A fully prepared opponent, with a desire to win. Who had his number.
The way Douglas ended the fight showed a brilliant killer instinct. He didn't get flustered or overexcited once he'd landed that uppercut: look how after hurting Tyson he gives him a little split-second push just to get him off and make space for the finishing combination. Good job Douglas got the KO, mind you, because a couple of those judges were out to rob him blind. Level on one card and trailing by a point on another after nine rounds - disgraceful stuff. Can't quite remember, but I think it might have been Hugh McIlvanney who wrote afterwards: "Presumably the judge who had Tyson ahead would have given Pompeii the verdict over Vesuvius."
This content is protected It was absolutely spectacular, in a lifetime full of sporting memories, being obsessed with almost every sport my entire life nothing even comes close to Douglas knocking out Tyson. He knocked out Mike Williams (above) with the almost exact combination years prior to Beating Tyson. Go to 28:20. Douglas could really put together combinations when he was on.
what is forgotten today is the way lots of folks were buying into Williams at the time. He was the rising star with the big potential, not buster.
Not as concise as Lewis-Rahman II. Buster had some fast hands though. Beautiful whenever he'd link shots together.
