If Buster Douglas had been counted OUT in the 8th.....?

[brocktonblockbust]

Iron Mike would have still been undefeated, but here is the post-fight interview:

Merchant: Mike, I think everybody here wants to know what happened to you tonight. You came from way, WAY behind after absorbing a tremendous amount of punishment against a virtually unknown fighter. More punishment than you have probably absorbed in all of your previous fights put together. Please tell us what happened.

Tyson: {fill in the blanks here}

How would this have changed the course of boxing history, had Tyson been awarded the 8th round KO that he surely deserved?

[Violent Demise]

Hopefully it would of been a wake up call for him. And he would re-dedicated himself to the sport.

"Damn. I almost lost to a scrub. Fuck that. This ain't gonna happen again. I need to make some changes. 75% of these niggaz gotta go. They ain't my homies. Half of them I don't even know there fucking names. No more fucking 30 different whores a week. I'm cutting that to 5. And no more 1 hour days at the gym. Back to 10 hours. Whoever beats me is gonna beat me at my best"

But with Tyson, who the fuck knows

[generalbulldog]

If Douglas had been counted out and Tyson won? Tyson would have had his ass kicked by a prime Holyfield and then the Tyson dickriders would say that Holyfield beat up a past his prime Tyson.

[brocktonblockbust]

[SEB]

Unfortunately, it was the Tyson of "how they dare to fight me with the inferior skills"....He made a tremendous party just before the fight....he would have use this excuse ans say next time he won't party just before the fight.

But reality is that Tyson was not dedicated anymore to boxing, indeed, Holifield would have kicked his butt in the next fight. but, sometimes I also dream that Tyson would have trained again seriously (at 70% let's say) for holyfield and they would have offered us the greatest heavyweight boxing match ever.

Tyson vs Holifield in the 90's is the best bout we could have in the decade. picking winner or loser is just a detail

[Snakey]

If your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle.

[brocktonblockbust]

If your aunty had balls she'd be your uncle.

wow, so I guess you're under the erroneous assumption that your statement is somehow a syntactic and syllogistic parallel somehow intended to invalidate the hypothetical beauty of the OP? Why don't you make an intellectual attempt to soundly put a few sagacious sentences together and show the world how luminescent your frontal cortex is?

[Master]

I agree with posters that said they think Tyson would have dedicated himself back in the gym, get rid of the ‘hanger ons’ and even take back Rooney which I doubt would have happened. Tyson was still good enough to have beaten Holyfield at that time, even if his skills were declining. I believe Tyson would have fought Holyfield next and they would have fought a brilliant fight with Tyson stopping Holyfield late in a barn burner of a fight. There would be a demand for a rematch and just before the fight Tyson rapes a girl and gets sentenced to 3 years in prison.

[El Kabong]

If Douglas had been counted out and Tyson won? Tyson would have had his ass kicked by a prime Holyfield and then the Tyson dickriders would say that Holyfield beat up a past his prime Tyson.

....So nothing would change

[marbleheadmaui]

Trying to predict Mike Tyson is like trying to predict how a drug-addled, paranoid schizophrenic would react to watching A Clockwork Orange. It could range from them weeping in a corner in the fetal position to grabbing an axe and decapitating everyone in the theater.

I don't see any evidence that Tyson was capable of growing up at that point. Hell the loss didn't make him do that, why would a win have done so?

[rjj tszyu]

Tyson would have been thrashed off Evander soon after anyway.

[Mr140]

Like many have said got his ass kicked by a real champ in Evander Holyfeild but the past is past.

[ross]

I dont think much would have changed. As long as King was at the helm, even if Mike thought it to be a good idea, hed never have gone back with Rooney and rededicated himself. I mean, even after being beaten, no one wanted to get Mike training right again. All King wanted to do was milk him while not having any one with sense or Mikes best interests at heart talking to him and possibly removing King from the picture.

If Mike did suddenly wise up, even after being beaten and went back to Catskills, with Rooney, Lott and Bill Cayton. Then we would have seen the best of Mike.

[brocktonblockbust]

great posts dudes and dudettes and miscellaneous....I agree, its tough to predict the unpredictable Tyson. who knows maybe evnader would have LOST BOTH HIS EARS 5 YEARS EARLIER THAN 1996.

[ross]

I dont think much would have changed, had he fought the same schedule of fights but the Tyson that fought Rudduck was still a machine, still had good stamina and didnt get discouraged easy. That Tyson, although with eroded skills would have had too much for Holyfield and almost every other heavy that cropped up over the next few years, save for Bowe and Lewis. Mike would need those illusive skills in those fights. When he was bobbing and weaving and hard to hit, it made fighters apprahensive of opening up, when he stopped moving they had a target to hit.