It's always amazing to me how quick people are to dismiss Buster Douglas' superhuman effort on the night the stars aligned just right and he beat Mike Tyson. "Tyson was shot", "Tyson was under-trained", "Tyson was over-confident (true)", "Tyson was on drugs", etc, etc, etc, etc.

I've watched the fight countless times. How about giving Buster Douglas some credit, if only for that one fateful night (for Tyson). Douglas hadn't done anything like that before Tyson.... and he never did anything like that after Tyson. But on that night? Douglas fought a perfect fight.

People forget... Douglas had the size and reach. All he needed was the skill, the conditioning, and the balls. That night he had all three. People talk as if Tyson was sleepwalking through the fight. He wasn't. True.... he was grossly over-confident, an understandable consequence of being undefeated and viewed as totally indestructible. Who the f___ was Buster Douglas but some other bum on Tyson's road to boxing royalty?

Douglas had the perfect mindset and "cojones" for Tyson that night. He refused to be bullied. Instead, he pushed Mike around, with his bigger body. He boxed... he danced... he tied Tyson up when he had to. He traded with Mike when he had to.

The Douglas of that night would've destroyed Wladimir Klitschko on any given night.

Eventually, you play with fire long enough... you get burned. Tyson finally caught him with an uppercut from hell. Aided by a generous count and the end of the round, Douglas survived. It wasn't meant to be Tyson's night.

So to each his own. Destroyed Tyson fans will continue to believe it was voodoo. In some dark corner some hater was sticking pins into a Tyson doll, weakening him for the kill by the bum Douglas. I prefer to give Douglas all the credit in the world for scoring what must still be the most humoungous upset in the history of all of sport. Unfortunately, this all went to Douglas' head and he went back to his lazy, overeating ways. He got dispatched easily by Holyfield, and that was that. More fuel for the destroyed Tyson fans to cling to the voodoo theory.

Let's call things for what they are. Douglas had one career day... and then called it a career. It was a fierce, competitive, action-packed, fingernail-biting fight. And the better man that night won.