Quote Originally Posted by Lance Uppercut View Post
Interestingly, Holyfield became Tyson's mandatory almost a year before the Douglas fight. However, Tyson (Don King) kept asking for exceptions to fight other fighters for an entire year.

The reason was economics. Tyson owed HBO a couple more fights for a set price. King wanted to put Holyfield vs Tyson on PPV because if meant big buck; so they wanted to fulfill their HBO contract fighting scurbs, while saving Tyson vs Holyfield for PPV

If you remember Holyfield was in the audience of the Douglas fight.

IF those two would have fought in 1989, we would have a better handle on Tyson's greatness.
Did not know that, Thought these fights were PPV but maybe that was a new concept then.