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    Default This Day in Boxing History: Douglas Beats Tyson

    On this date in 1990, James "Buster" Douglas defeated Mike Tyson in possibly the biggest upset in sports history.

    Where were you when you heard about it? How did you react?

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    I was pissed off Sky had bought the exclusive rights for Tyson's fights and ITV had lost him so could not watch his title fights for the first ever time.

    I have never forgiven sky ever since and is where my intense hate for the company started.

    No one hardly had a sky dish. I was secretly hoping Tyson would lose and he could come back to ITV and Reg Gutteridge.

    I heard the news on radio in the morning and could not believe it.
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    I was away on business, probably Australia (not the US obviously), that would have been a two week trip. I did not therefore perform my normal ritual of going to the local bookie and betting on Tyson to get beat, as I did religiously every fight. Missed out on some massive odds there! Honours even in later years when I had Evander (twice) at 20-1, Lennox, Danny Williams and that Irish bloke who's name I've forgot, so still a profit overall. Not that I'm a Tyson hater, just thought he was over hyped, and like Liston beat most of his opponents before they entered the ring. Happy daze

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    Nice impact year for me as a fight fan. Still living with the parents and we had rigged cable to our rooms. I always remember Douglas being knocked down and yelling something along the lines of "kick his ass Tyson" from upstairs. A few minutes later my Dad walked by my bedroom and pounded on the wall.."how'd you like that one bahaha" as he walked by and Tyson slumped in the refs arms .

    I didn't know up until few years ago that Mike was originally signed to fight Ruddock instead but they ditched contract. And Holyfield fight was already signed with promotion posters already out and commercials cut. Really shows what a guy takes for granted.

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    I wa 17 and woke up and raced downstairs to put teletext on. It came up - Tyson Knockout Sensation- as the headline and I just assumed heโ€™d knocked Douglas out in about 3 seconds so keyed the page and the story came up. Page 381 if my teletext memory serves me correctly.

    Read the story in shock and then ran off back upstairs shouting my dad with the news.
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    Default Re: This Day in Boxing History: Douglas Beats Tyson

    I was pretty much the same as Mark TOO, in fact the first time I actually saw the whole fight was when my older brother bought it on a video cassette ๐Ÿ˜
    That was massive news right across the entire planet, something i doubt we'll ever see in sport again let alone boxing.
    Tyson was a mega mega star at that point in time

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