If Buster Douglas had been counted OUT in the 8th.....?

[El Kabong]

If Douglas had been counted out and Tyson won? Tyson would have had his ass kicked by a prime Holyfield and then the Tyson dickriders would say that Holyfield beat up a past his prime Tyson.

....So nothing would change

[marbleheadmaui]

Trying to predict Mike Tyson is like trying to predict how a drug-addled, paranoid schizophrenic would react to watching A Clockwork Orange. It could range from them weeping in a corner in the fetal position to grabbing an axe and decapitating everyone in the theater.

I don't see any evidence that Tyson was capable of growing up at that point. Hell the loss didn't make him do that, why would a win have done so?

[rjj tszyu]

Tyson would have been thrashed off Evander soon after anyway.

[Mr140]

Like many have said got his ass kicked by a real champ in Evander Holyfeild but the past is past.

[ross]

I dont think much would have changed. As long as King was at the helm, even if Mike thought it to be a good idea, hed never have gone back with Rooney and rededicated himself. I mean, even after being beaten, no one wanted to get Mike training right again. All King wanted to do was milk him while not having any one with sense or Mikes best interests at heart talking to him and possibly removing King from the picture.

If Mike did suddenly wise up, even after being beaten and went back to Catskills, with Rooney, Lott and Bill Cayton. Then we would have seen the best of Mike.

[brocktonblockbust]

great posts dudes and dudettes and miscellaneous....I agree, its tough to predict the unpredictable Tyson. who knows maybe evnader would have LOST BOTH HIS EARS 5 YEARS EARLIER THAN 1996.

[ross]

I dont think much would have changed, had he fought the same schedule of fights but the Tyson that fought Rudduck was still a machine, still had good stamina and didnt get discouraged easy. That Tyson, although with eroded skills would have had too much for Holyfield and almost every other heavy that cropped up over the next few years, save for Bowe and Lewis. Mike would need those illusive skills in those fights. When he was bobbing and weaving and hard to hit, it made fighters apprahensive of opening up, when he stopped moving they had a target to hit.