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heh Tyson had that effect on some people. Carl Williams was undefeated when he faced Tyson, wound up a journo with 10 career losses. Spinks never fought again.

Similar to what happened to GGG's opponents during his prime.

Legendary power punchers do that to people.

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12-18-2018 , 04:56 PM

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Exhibit A: first round starts around 2:53. the KO sequence starts around 4:20 with the body shots/upper cut combo. the rest is straight out of the Matrix.

I would pay a healthy sum to see that version of Tyson go against Douglas that night. All of the big names after that too. What really sucks is we never got a Tyson Morrison fight in their prime.

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12-18-2018 , 04:59 PM

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This. Plus a combination of boxing still being pretty big in the late 80s. Tyson fights were absolute must-see viewing. Even in our broke high school/college days - we always found a way to see the fight.

There are overdogs you root against. And then there are overdogs that are so over the top you root for them just to see the spectacle. Tyson was like that. I didn't get HBO that month because I thought Douglass had a chance. I just wanted to see the spectacle.

David Letterman featured the "Marvis Frazier Egg Timer" in one of his spoof product segments.

I remember being worried he was going to kill someone in the ring.

Edit: Berbick man. These are bringing back some memories.

Edit edit: "Man, your brother's fighting Mike Tyson? There's gotta be an easier way he can make a million dollars." - what a quote

This . Nobody gave a **** about the undercard and most thought his fights wouldn’t last a minute , but it was a minute u didn’t mind paying for and couldn’t afford to miss.

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12-18-2018 , 05:16 PM

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Can we be honest, Tyson didn’t train for the fight, had to go across the continent and didn’t he get some STD that week too. If Tyson actually trained and prepared he would have destroyed Buster Douglas.

Can we be honest ? Most upsets , wheather team or individual , manifest w lack of preparation from the favorite. It’s seldom that the world and sportsbooks had the wrong side better than the other talent wise.

I was unaware Buster Douglas resided in Japan and didn’t have to travel cross continent. The internet suffers when u log on .

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12-19-2018 , 04:38 AM

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The Bobby Knight episode was interesting, but it just reiterates that the guy is just the world's biggest jerk. He's not interesting as a person at all.

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12-19-2018 , 04:15 PM

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The rap on Douglas was that he was a quitter. He wasn't supposed to get up. But on the mat he decided not to quit.

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12-19-2018 , 05:23 PM

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The Bobby Knight episode was interesting, but it just reiterates that the guy is just the world's biggest jerk. He's not interesting as a person at all.

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12-19-2018 , 10:46 PM

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I assumed he meant Tyson and screwed up.

He'd still be wrong but it'd be less of a lol

I'm trying to think of peak Ali, maybe against Ernie Terrell, he had plenty of speed but his reach would not work because Douglas had him by probably 3+ inches. Ali was powerful but certainly not Tyson powerful. Ali would need to wear Douglas down but that certainly was not happening that night.

Feel free to educate us how Ali would beat Douglas that night.

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12-19-2018 , 10:54 PM

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Tyson was good, but he didn't beat anybody of note. No one. Lets see how he'd do in the era of Ali, Foreman, and Frazier.

Ali would obviously be tough. Tyson maybe wins 1 of 3.

If Foreman fought smart and kept his distance I doubt Tyson could do much. But Foreman typically wound up in punch fests and Tyson would probably win in that scenario.

Frazier would not have a chance. Tyson would get hit but it would probably end up like the Jamaica fight.

Norton, no chance. See Foreman and Shavers.

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12-20-2018 , 12:49 AM

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Gotta love Mike. He grew up. Hope he has some peace these days.

One of the other stories Tyson related in his book was an anecdote about a kid about 12-13 or so and his father passing Tyson on the street shortly after the "The Hangover" came out and the kid commented "Hey, it's Mike Tyson, the actor."

Tyson wrote that he heard the comment and told the kid that he also used to be the best boxer in the world. The kid then looked at his dad, not believing that could possibly be true,

I grew up in the 1980s, so it is kinda shocking to realize there is an entire generation of people who have no context of what a phenomenon 1980s Mike Tyson was.

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12-20-2018 , 12:51 AM

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The rap on Douglas was that he was a quitter. He wasn't supposed to get up. But on the mat he decided not to quit.

Because he was motivated by the death of his mother before the fight. Douglas said that there was nothing Tyson could do to hurt him as badly as he was already hurt. Douglas was never that good before the Tyson fight or after the Tyson fight because that kind of emotion was impossible to manufacture.

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12-20-2018 , 01:10 AM

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Last year when Tom Petty died, I mentioned it in me college composition course for Freshmen, and about three quarters of the class had never even heard of him.

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12-20-2018 , 02:00 AM

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Talk about a heartbreaker

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12-20-2018 , 02:06 AM

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I had to quote this but I don’t really have a comment or anything.

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12-20-2018 , 03:44 AM

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During the wall to wall coverage of the bronco chase I remarked "they sure are making a lot of fuss over The Naked Gun sidekick."

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12-20-2018 , 04:05 AM

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He fought Holyfield next and was paid like $25 million, but even all that wasn't enough motivation and he came into that fight 15 lbs. heavier than vs. Tyson.

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12-20-2018 , 07:30 AM

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Talk about a heartbreaker

Freshmen were free fallin'

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12-20-2018 , 12:20 PM

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He fought Holyfield next and was paid like $25 million, but even all that wasn't enough motivation and he came into that fight 15 lbs. heavier than vs. Tyson.

There's an old Howard Stern interview with Douglas where Buster said he ended up taking home only something like $50k when all was said and done of that $25m. Promoter took half, IRS took half, trainer took 20%, etc. It was heartbreaking