Douglas manhandles Tyson

[marbleheadmaui]

The great fiction of this fight is that Douglas got a "long count." First off, ref's counts are rarely ten seconds, they are instead ten counts. Second the fighter's job is to follow the ref's count, whatever it is. Third, Buster pretty clearly could have gotten up 6-7 seconds (by a clock) after he got dropped. Lastly, the Douglas count was 14 seconds. But guess what Tyson's count was? The same 14 seconds.

As for Tyson not being "mentally prepared?" As irrelevant as Dempsey's mental condition before Tunney, Ray Leonard's before Duran or Robinson's before Turpin. Part of the game. The guy who handles the outside pressures better as an edge.

Still shocking to see.

So that means Tyson won, because Douglass was counted out first.

What part of "follow the ref's count" is ambiguous?

Go watch films with a stopwatch in your hands. Most ten counts in history run 13-14 seconds by the clock.

[JonesJrMayweather]

The great fiction of this fight is that Douglas got a "long count." First off, ref's counts are rarely ten seconds, they are instead ten counts. Second the fighter's job is to follow the ref's count, whatever it is. Third, Buster pretty clearly could have gotten up 6-7 seconds (by a clock) after he got dropped. Lastly, the Douglas count was 14 seconds. But guess what Tyson's count was? The same 14 seconds.

As for Tyson not being "mentally prepared?" As irrelevant as Dempsey's mental condition before Tunney, Ray Leonard's before Duran or Robinson's before Turpin. Part of the game. The guy who handles the outside pressures better as an edge.

Still shocking to see.

So that means Tyson won, because Douglass was counted out first.

What part of "follow the ref's count" is ambiguous?

Go watch films with a stopwatch in your hands. Most ten counts in history run 13-14 seconds by the clock.

Wasn't an argument, just saying that if saying both counts were the same, the douglass was counted out in round 8. And the Tyson KD never exists. But I don't care, I was pulling for Douglass that night. Also if you look at this video you can clearly see the the ring counter dude is actually one second ahead of the ref. the ref never picked up the count on the correct number.


at the 2:54 mark the guy starts counting wearing the white gloves.