Give me your analysis on Buster Douglas and his 15 minutes of fame ?????

I have to agree with you about Buster Douglas, he was just a lazy fighter. I buster would have trained and had his head in it for every fight we would have seen a different Douglas. If my memory serves me correctly when he fought Tucker in my opinion he was winning that fight, then he got knocked down and laid on the canvas rubbing his nose while the ref counted him out. He just quit, he didn't have that kind of fight in him to fight back after the knock down.

 

Tyson was told Buster was a push over and had nothing to worry about. He played in the zoo all day and partyed with sumos all night.

On the other hand you had Douglas who just lost his mother and trained with a determination like it was a fight to the death.
Doesn't mean Douglas wasn't a bad boxer. He had way more talent than any HW around today.

 

talented fighter...just didn't have the love for boxing...put it together for one night against an underconditioned mike tyson while on an extreme emotional high

 

$24 million dollars and back then that was a crazy amount for one fight. Sadly, Douglas didn't make the most out of it and ballooned up shortly after only to end up with nothing.

 

Starved himself..... to make weight? Why, there isn't a weight limit in the hw, and tyson was a tiny hw!

 

cayton touched on that, he went back to something cus used to warn Tyson about, about heavyweights not coming in shape and allowing themselves to become obese. Je said he knew Tyson would never come to a fight like that so he lived on nothing but soup and salads to keep his weight down

 

Watch he fight again.....
On of the main reasons Dougs beat Tyson was decide BEFORE the fight started. Buster was not afraid of Mike like the majority of his opponents had been. He didn't back away instad he attacked Mike putting him on his back foot Mike didnt now what to do. His corner were no use to him either acting like cheerleaders imitating the keystone Kops. When Mike knocked Buster down he thought he'd saved his bacon. When Buster got up fought back Mike was done he fight was over Buster won the fight for his Mom. On that night no one was going to beat him

 

on that night, mike was going to have to kill buster to beat him. mike wasnt prepared for that type of determination.

 

A lot of myths have grown around Douglas-Tucker, seemingly to further the angle that Douglas was a lazy underachiever.

It was actually a pretty competitive fight, before Tucker buckled a tiring Douglas with a big right in the 10th. He unloaded about 20 virtually unanswered punches before Lane stopped it with Douglas on the ropes. The stoppage seemed a bit premature, but the fact that Douglas didn't protest it at all probably gave rise to the quit allegations.

Douglas didn't exactly go out on his shield, but there was plenty of big leather landing from Tucker. I've seen reports that suggest Douglas won every round before quitting. Watching the fight objectively, Tucker was getting stronger as the fight progressed and was working well to the body. He seemed to break him physically as much as mentally.

 

I saw this. I was wondering if anyone else would catch that ridiculous post.

 

if you read what i said properly instead if acting like an *******, then you wouldn't need to wander

 

That isn't true. He quit in a fight that was dead even on the scorecards, causing his own father to label him a dog. I don't think he has ever revealed why he did it, but after that he did it again against Holyfied. He was leaning on his elbow almost counting with the ref in that fight. It was a case of take the money and run.

That said, on the night he fought Tyson, his personal problems must have spured him on and he deserves full credit for the win.

 

Probably one of, if not the greatest, 15 min of fame in boxing. Unfortunately he didn't have the discipline to maintain. To his day my brother and I have two totally different takes on how that fight turned out. His is simple, he believes it was fixed, I believe Douglas was motivated by the death of his mother, and fought the fight of his life and reguardless of which Tyson showed up, Douglas fought like he would not be denied.