Too bad it turned out only to be a "One Time" deal......:twisted: MR.BILL:admin Though, I was impressed with Douglas later in 1997 when he beat Quinn Navarre on national TV while weighing a good 235 pounds....... :thumbsup Douglas again looked like **** at 243 pounds for Louis Savarese in 1998...atsch
Very impressive showing by Douglas. Douglas looked great, and only needed to beat Savarese for the rematch with Tyson. I liked his comeback, post coma, and I was really rooting for him, but the Louis Monaco fight showed his chin had been reduced to china. Savarese steamrolled him.
douglas was fabulous that one night. Tyson was still good he just ran out of ideas when he couldnt slide through the jab and kept buying feints. TYson had enjoyed such an easy ride til that point and douglas just punished him, showing evrything that night, skil, heart, size and speed he even got off the floor to win. Buster never ever lived up to it again even if he always showed flashes of his ability. had douglas sustained that level of comitment bowe, moorer, foreman, lewis may never have won titles.
Yet few give Holyfield enough credit for that, because they concentrate on Douglas being fat. If Douglas was 230, Holyfield still would have got to him, and with Holyfield in the kind of form he was even if Douglas gets up he's going to get taken apart sooner or later.
I remember the media reporting that Douglas looked unimpressive in sparring (as did Tyson). That probably added to the surprise, if Buster had looked like a killer getting ready for the fight a few odds would've shifted.
To be honest, I thought Douglas was impressive and showing improvement in his fights prior to Tyson. He certainly struck me as one of the better young and "live" contenders out there. I saw him crushing Mike Williams on the Tyson-Spinks undercard and that was a great performance against a hot prospect and up-and-comer. The write-up in The Ring said Douglas looked possessed by the ghost of Sonny Liston as he landed terrific jabs to floor Douglas. Wins over a faded Berbick and a young McCall were decent enough, and got the rounds in. Douglas was a well-schooled professional, a solid all-rounder, a journeyman in the true sense, with an excellent jab. The kind of fighter that's been around long enough and been through enough to be taken seriously as a man who can take the title. He wasn't some tired drug-addled has-been who's fast losing ambition, or some inexperienced kid being rushed in. Then again, Carl Williams ticked all the same boxes, and Tyson only needed 93 seconds, so it's understandable how Mike underestimated Douglas.
it wasnt what went right with or for douglas but what as going on with mike that was the story of that fight. i douglas mother died and this and that and he trained his ass for the fight but if mike had done the same. if mike was doing thing the right way. he would have kick he's ass
I never thought much of Douglas' chin anyway.... He never took hard punches well.....:-( Monaco fouled Buster, while Savarese just smoked-out Buster like a tidal wave hitting the shore.... :shock: Douglas' chin with or without diabetes was shaky.....:deal MR.BILL:thumbsup
If it was any other fighter Monaco would have gotten the win. It was almost simultaneously with the bell. True about Douglas, but his chin was really **** after the coma.
It was impressive enough for Douglas to even be in the ring after ballooning up to 400 pounds. As much as he was criticized for lacking heart on occasions, rightfully so, he did show trendemous heart against Tyson and by coming back after falling into coma. Even his father had already given up on him previous to the Tyson fight.