Don Cockell vs. James "Buster" Douglas

Cockell has a better carreer than Douglas. Neither one was great. If not for win over Tyson, who was out of shape, Douglas would be forgotten. It would be a boring fight, either could win by decision. I would give Cockell edge, but slieght one.

 

Dont be shock if Cockell wins this one. Don is pretty underated imo. And Douglas is overrated.

 

People put the Douglas that beat Tyson with the likes of ALi or Louis. In head to head. Which is pretty crazy imo.

 

Buster has beat tyson, mccall, berbick and grag page, who the **** has cockell beat? Harry Kid matthews and lastarza, o wow i'm ****in impressed! Douglas is the better fighter.

 

No he doesnt, beating tyson is better than beating all 3 of those guys put together and mccall had over 20 fights by that time. Greg Page would prolly beat all the guys cockell has beat, on top of that hes a ****in light heavyweight and his skills are inferior if u watch them on tape.

 

Thats ur opinion, its not much of a legacy if you havent even beat 1 champ and like i said before, greg page in his prime would most likely beat those guys too, tyson would smash them.

 

I dont see how its a bigger legacy, he never beat a champion. Douglas is a linear champ and hes beat 3 ex alpha champs and a few other contenders from the 80s like cobb and helstead. Don Cockell is a light heavyweight that never beat a world champ.

 

I've watched some film of Don Cockell, and even viewed his title match with Marciano. Frankly, I'm not impressed. I didn't see the skills that he would have needed to beat a bigger stronger and better boxer like Douglas. No, I'm not making a case for Douglas being a great fighter, as he clearly wasn't, but neither was Cockell. Douglas could move around quite a bit for a bigger man, and had a fairly good jab and hard right. At times he didn't show up in tremendous shape. On the otherhand, Don Cockell suffered from a disease which prevented him from properly breaking down Carbohydrates, leading to his often being overweight, or just not ideally conditioned.

I don't see Cockell winning this one, and in fact I think I'll go with Douglas by a wide decision or TKO.

 

Sorry Luigi but Farr was 39 and in the throes of a comeback ,after being retired 10 years,he told my Dad he only came back for the money,so the win isnt as creditable as it seems,I met Cockell a very nice man very modest,Im 5 81/2 and was a Welter/Middle,Cockell was only an inch or so taller than me.Against the 6 4 Douglas he would have serious size problems.