Quote Originally Posted by TysonBomb View Post
Douglas was almost KOed despite putting in the best performance of his career and Tyson who literally just showed up to fight, hungover.

Holyfield intentionally headbutted his way to two "victories" over Tyson.

Douglas was actually 3 pounds HEAVIER for the Tyson fight, genius.

Not only do you prove you haven't watched half of these fights, you've also proven your incompetence at researching what happened. You probably mistook Tyson's weight for Douglas's. Tyson was at 220 lbs NOT Douglas, who was at 231.
You're right about Douglas. My mistake.

Your problem, young fella, is that you view Tyson's career through posterity. You have already stated he was before your time, and you probably learned all you know about him through youtube highlight footage.
I, however, remember watching many of his fights live back in the day, and as such I read newspapers and boxing magazines and garnered a wealth of background information from the experts of the day about the state of the division and their opinions of Tyson.
I remember when Douglas beat him, because I was in Los Angeles at the time and watched the fight. The most interesting thing about that fight is the excuses. I've read Tyson was hung over, was suffering an allergic reaction to penicillin after contracting VD in a Tokyo whorehouse, to was given sedatives by the Yakuza because of the betting odds.
The strangest thing about these excuses is that they were first heard more than a decade after the fight. Nobody was making those excuses at the time.