No problem Humberto Gonzalez losing to Rolando Pascua around the same time was big as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKO
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Originally Posted by Master
cheers for that - none of us knew
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No problem Humberto Gonzalez losing to Rolando Pascua around the same time was big as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKOQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
cheers for that - none of us knew
I know I don't come across as one who dug Tyson. I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greig
But I guess my uncles wouldn't let me live the Douglass loss down. They kept sayin' 'watch nephew...everybody is gonna' beat his ass now. Watch him fight clowns you aint never heard of. They gonna whoop his ass. Nephew when Ali beat Forman, Lyle came in confident, hell Jimmy Young sent Forman to the lord & retirement.
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Originally Posted by Mark TKOQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
cheers for that - none of us knew
Hahaha!
Look at Master going all obscure on us :p
Sounds like they paid attention. The destroyers are always overrated. Boxers adjust, that's why they are actually better. The people that walk through everyone don't spend years developing alternatives.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimTraeI know I don't come across as one who dug Tyson. I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greig
But I guess my uncles wouldn't let me live the Douglass loss down. They kept sayin' 'watch nephew...everybody is gonna' beat his ass now. Watch him fight clowns you aint never heard of. They gonna whoop his ass. Nephew when Ali beat Forman, Lyle came in confident, hell Jimmy Young sent Forman to the lord & retirement.
Tyson did not do too badly even though he was finished and certainly did better than George Foreman or Liston after he lost. Sure he had better marketing, prison and avoiding the young fighters like Lewis/Bowe but he did get the title back and defend it before he imploded again.Quote:
Originally Posted by BeanflickerQuote:
Originally Posted by Mark TKOQuote:
Originally Posted by Master
cheers for that - none of us knew
Hahaha!
Look at Master going all obscure on us :p
You nailed it. Cruel lesson to learn as a Tyson fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ron SwansonSounds like they paid attention. The destroyers are always overrated. Boxers adjust, that's why they are actually better. The people that walk through everyone don't spend years developing alternatives.Quote:
Originally Posted by SlimTraeI know I don't come across as one who dug Tyson. I did.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greig
But I guess my uncles wouldn't let me live the Douglass loss down. They kept sayin' 'watch nephew...everybody is gonna' beat his ass now. Watch him fight clowns you aint never heard of. They gonna whoop his ass. Nephew when Ali beat Forman, Lyle came in confident, hell Jimmy Young sent Forman to the lord & retirement.
James 'Buster' Douglas
"It was like taking Candy from a baby. The guy had no toughness."
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Tyson took a fearful beating for 10 rounds that was toughness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bill Paxtom
Tyson in reality won the fight with a VERY long count given to Douglas, people tend to forget the fact that Douglas should have been counted out and never in a position to KO Tyson.
The count got to nine, Douglas got up, it's that simple. Douglas's count was no different to the one Tyson got, there's a side by side video that shows it.
Regardless of Mike Tyson's state Douglas still had to knock him out and he did it.
The poxy WBC and WBA bought King's long count nonsense and took the belts back from Douglas. Unreal.
I never see anyone mention what I find most curious about the initial knockdown. The punch landed with 5 seconds to go in the round. The count was a tick slow as every time I replay it I'm at 3 when the ref says 2. But that's beside the point Buster could have gotten up a count earlier if he desperately needed to. But moving past that. Remember.....
The punch landed with 5 seconds to go in the round. He gets a full count and almost begins boxing before the bell finally sounds. This happens all the time. How f'n hard is it to keep time?!
Tyson had courage, he took a whipping, got destroyed and was still trying to get up and fight on.
That was the biggest robbery and upset that they were actually trying to hand back the titles from Buster to Tyson after he got KTFO.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fenster