Tyson-Douglas: Slow count?

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I am a massive Tyson fan, but the bloke was a self-loathing nutjob with serious addictive tendencies.

If boxing (and Cus D'Amato) hadn't found him, it's very likely he would have been dead or serving a life sentence by 20 instead of being the youngest and most destructive heavyweight champ in history.

Looking back, I suspect that his peak was always going to be short and meteoric. The truth is that by the time he fought Douglas, he was pretty much finished as an elite boxer. He wasn't training properly and was leading an incredibly destructive lifestyle.

The so called long count was completely irrelevant in this fight. Douglas was superb and was completely dominating the fight. Tyson reached back into his past to produce the knockdown, but Buster was fully compos mentis and I think Tyson was too tired to finish him off at that point. Douglas would have just got up and continued to punish Tyson.

[Mark TKO]

I am a massive Tyson fan, but the bloke was a self-loathing nutjob with serious addictive tendencies.

If boxing (and Cus D'Amato) hadn't found him, it's very likely he would have been dead or serving a life sentence by 20 instead of being the youngest and most destructive heavyweight champ in history.

Looking back, I suspect that his peak was always going to be short and meteoric. The truth is that by the time he fought Douglas, he was pretty much finished as an elite boxer. He wasn't training properly and was leading an incredibly destructive lifestyle.

The so called long count was completely irrelevant in this fight. Douglas was superb and was completely dominating the fight. Tyson reached back into his past to produce the knockdown, but Buster was fully compos mentis and I think Tyson was too tired to finish him off at that point. Douglas would have just got up and continued to punish Tyson.

agree with all that - good points