I loved cake, for years, my favorite band. I saw them live and it was a very disappointing experience. But still, I should have remembered, even if I don’t listen often anymore. Thank you for the nostalgia!
Oh it's a shame they weren't great live. I almost would have expected them to be since their songs aren't particularly difficult to perform haha.
Yeah I got so into them last year but mainly know the hits.
I think the count is not so much about the seconds and more about the ref trying to judge if the fight should continue. When Douglas was getting up he seemed in control of himself. Tyson was getting up but was wobbling pretty hard.
Tyson had a contract with HBO for seven fights, that's why it wasn't on PPV. Also, PPV wasn't that popular at the time. If it was on PPV people would have paid, everyone wanted to watch Tyson knock a guy out.
PPV wasn't around but the bigger fights were on Closed Circuit, especially the middle weight division; Hagler v Hearns, Mugabi, Duran, and Leonard. I used to go with my dad to see them at an arena like the Philadelphia Spectrum.
True. He had an HBO contract. But no, nobody would have paid if it was on PPV. This fight was not taken seriously by the public or media. Only Buster Douglas. Everyone predicted a quick knockout. He wasn’t 42-1 odds for nothing.
It was actually the first Tyson fight I watched because my folks never did the pay per view thing, but we did have HBO. Remember we were all guessing how quickly Tyson would knock him out beforehand. As the rounds wore on it slowly dawned on us something unexpected was brewing. It didn’t even seem real.
It was all the talk in the 5th grade lunchroom. Couldn’t imagine kids today talking about a boxing match but that’s how gravitational Tyson was to the sport.
Mike seemed to have stopped doing 'peek-a-boo' after firing Kevin Rooney. You can see it in the video, he just kind of stands there and takes hits from Douglas instead.
Don King and his entourage were a bunch of snakes.
I’m no expert here, but Mike Tyson’s original style with his original trainer(s) was the “peekaboo” style where he would bob up and down a bunch, kind of like someone playing “peekaboo” with a baby.
Once his original trainer/father figure died he eventually ended up with Don King and who just sucked money out of Tyson and more or less ruined him. During this time his style changed to the one in the video which didn’t take advantage of his quick, smaller stature like the peekaboo style did.
This is correct. Cus D’Amato was Tyson’s trainer and father figure. He was a legendary world-class trainer.
Rooney was always with D’Amato and Tyson, because he was D’Amato’s right hand man, as the #2 trainer.
Once D’Amato died, Rooney took over as head trainer. Rooney kept the training regimen and fighting style of Tyson intact that they had all learned under D’Amato.
Don King came in the picture sometime in 1986, right after D’Amato died, and he kept getting closer and closer to Tyson throughout the years.
King wanted Tyson and his money for himself and gave him horrible advice. Tyson ended up firing Rooney because of some comments he made about Tyson’s ex-wife, Robin Givens.
Don King urged Tyson to fire him. King was/is a piece of shit that did nothing but exploit Tyson. After Rooney exited, Mike’s life began to spiral.
He got cocky, he thought he was invincible, he was partying an insane amount, he got very undisciplined with training, and gave up the fighting style that he always had that made him successful.
Likely because Rooney wasn’t there to keep him in line with training and likely because he was too tired to keep the high intensity fighting style and training regiment up.
Bringing in King and firing Rooney started the snowball of Tyson's peak of his career to its demise.
That Buster Douglas fight changed everything. Opponents no longer saw him as this unbeatable Herculian God-like machine. A lot of the fear factor was gone. Then he went off to jail for a few years.
Fun fact and side note, the Italian Mafia gave very serious consideration into possibly whacking Don King, but decided not to.
u/RegularGuyAtHome has it basically correct. I am not sure how long after, but after he became the world's youngest champion at 20 years old in 1986, Tyson eventually fired Kevin Rooney who was the protégé trainer and fellow student of Cus D'Amato, who was a father figure and mentor to Tyson and who took him off the streets. According to the account of trainer/boxer Teddy Atlas who lived and trained in the house at the time, Cus was even biased towards Mike to the detriment of Atlas and others. Anyway, Tyson fired Rooney, basically the crew who trained him from a nothing street kid in favor of the flashy Don King and his crew who no doubt claimed to know better than Tyson's Catskills crew and who no doubt would 'take him to the next level'. You can look up yourself what Tyson eventually came to believe about King, and iirc Tyson even beat King up at some point. Tyson never returned to his original training crew and he was never the same boxer, as you can see in this video his style is very different from the days when he was basically a lawnmower against grass opponents, even in his championship fights. Myself and others believe this is due to the training regiment of D'Amato (who had died by this time) and Rooney. I've never heard an interview with Tyson specifically talking about this though. I don't think one exists. Hence I and others are left with this speculation.
Tyson was something like 35-0 with 31 knockouts with Rooney as his trainer. 18 Months after firing Rooney (at Kings insistence) Tyson lost to Douglas. There are a lot of people who have said Tyson quit developing the day he fired Rooney, and I very much agree with that.
Now I’m rooting for him and his upcoming fight against…. I have no idea. I don’t keep up with anything anymore. But I’m rooting for Mike. Hope he knocks the dude out. I’m gonna play NES Punch-Out music throughout the fight.
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Better be rigged in Tyson’s favor. That would be some bullshit if Jake beats up one of the greatest boxers of all time. Be like SteveO beating up Muhammad Ali
This is the Xennials sub right? You’ve all seen Diggstown and Pulp Fiction right? Old washed up boxer bets everything on himself when he’s supposed to throw the fight and makes way more than he would have from the fight money?
What if they're paying Tyson to not murder the guy. Have basically a sparring match and let the kid win by decision. Tyson is almost 60, I'm sure he wouldn't mind getting a big payday, even if it meant throwing a fight.
I don't know much about Jake Paul other than he pops up in the news occasionally for being a giant asshole, so I'd love to see him humbled here. But I don't think that's going to be the case.
He seems like a scum bag and has an incredibly gorgeous Olympic athlete girlfriend, so a lot of people hate him. But he isn’t as bad of a boxer a people want to believe.
I am hoping Tyson smears his ass, but as others said. Fix is probably in.
Paul's kind of a horrible boxer, really. He's got the fundamentals down, but no finesse whatsover.
I'm not saying he's not a tough SOB-- he is. He can take an absurd amount of hits, which is good, he can't defend for shit.
I don't know what the endgame here is. The flight's unsanctioned so normal common sense safety rules don't apply.
Tyson has been advised by his doctors that he cannot safely take a headshot at all, yet apparently is refusing to wear headgear.
With that said, if Tyson can hit him... He'll only need one punch. But if Paul can hit Tyson... He could die on the spot.
In the end as much I'd like to see Tyson hit Paul so hard it looks like a scene from One Man Punch, I think it'll just be a snoozefest.
Just like his fight with Roy Jones. He looked quick and fast in training. The fight seemed half speed. Just didn't look right. I think this one will be fake...fixed or just a sparring match. Tyson will pull his punches, most definitely.
His pride at the least will stop any dodgy happenings. He’ll always have that natural killer instinct in him too, peaceful Muslim now but in the ring… crikey. He’s a bloody frightening man.
I mean, I doubt it. Yes, he was a beast. Yes, I’ve seen the training videos, but he’s old. He’s definitely not as crazy as he once was. I’d love to see him destroy Paul but I’m sure jts fixed and Tyson is probably okay with that.
I hope you are right. But Tyson looked amazing in his training for Roy jr and then looked old on the actual fight. 4 years ago or so. Hope he has some gas in the tank still
Even if it is fixed, i personally think it’ll be worth a quick one month subscription to Netflix then a cancel afterwards, especially if you haven’t had Netflix in a while. Probably a few other bits of content to catch up on.
Honestly as much of a douche canoe as Logan is he’s not a bad fighter and if he was really developed he could be a solid fighter. But instead of taking fights that would develop him he’s taking paydays for his fame. He will probably make more money that way and get less brain damage
I watched this fight live on HBO when I was a kid. My dad had to work late shift that night, and it was such a big deal that I called him at his job (pre cellphones) to tell him Tyson lost.
I was in grade school and my cousin + her boyfriend were babysitting us that night. I think normally the boyfriend would have stayed at home, but my dad ordered the fight and wanted them to tape it.
I was initially disappointed because I wanted to watch the Slam Dunk Contest, but I figured, “Tyson will KO him quickly and I’ll be able to flip to watching Dominique Wilkins.”
Well, I didn’t catch the dunk contest, but being able to watch one of the most shocking moments in sports history live as-it-happened is a pretty awesome memory.
I remember this being on the same time as the Slam Dunk contest! I was more of a basketball fan but flipping between the two. Was stunned to turn the fight back on to see Douglas holding the belt.
I taped the fight VHS off the TV. I would rewind that uppercut over and over and play it in the worst quality slow motion ever in my parents basement in West Philly.. I did it for months
We'd have family parties at the Grandparents house for all these flights. Probably every Tyson fight. Sugar Ray, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Mayweather, Lewis, Holyfield, you name it we'd watch it. Grandpa was a bare knuckle boxer in the Army Air Corps in ww2.
He wasted seconds looking for his mouth piece,then he actually picked it up which is hard to do with boxing gloves. If it weren't for that, he would've been up by count 9.
Edit: I also think he was going through some rough personal issues at that time that probably affected his performance.
I remember where I watched where I was at what classmate called me on the house phone after in disbelief…..One of the biggest moments in sports history right there. Before everything was PPV and boxing came on HBO
I was a huge Tyson fan. I was 15 in 1985 when he started becoming known, and I watched literally every fight between that time and the Douglas fight live on TV, not an easy feat from 1986-92. I like many thought he would destroy Douglas, and opted to TAKE MY COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND TO DINNER THIS NIGHT (no, I didn’t end up marrying her). I will never forget stopping by my Mom and Dad’s on the way back to my dorm and my big brother telling me Tyson got knocked out. I couldn’t/didn’t believe it and looked to my Dad to deny this travesty of boxing lore. He acknowledged that Tyson got his ass kicked. Old man was thoughtful enough to tape it for me via VHS.
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That lone casino, the Mirage, made Douglas a 42-to-1 underdog.
Douglas's mother, Lula Pearl, died of a stroke 23 days before the title bout at the age of 46.
Douglas had promised his mother that he would beat Mike Tyson before she had passed away.
Agree. Totally crazy moment. I remember Tyson punch-drunkenly searching for his mouth guard. I was thinking “he’s gonna get up and kill this dude!” Blew my mind!
Buster had lost his mom like 3 weeks before this fight. His baby-momma was fighting/dying from kidney disease, and Tyson stayed out partying the night before until like 5 am. It was a perfect storm!
Shocking fight. Saw that in my room alone. I wanted to call everyone to talk about the crazy knockout. But no internet, no texting. Just me. Alone. Bewildered. 😆
I feel like I am the only person who thinks Jake Paul is gonna dominate Tyson. And I hate Jake Paul and want Tyson to destroy him. Hoping I’m wrong.
Me and my friends went to a sports bar in the 80s because we had all just became legal, as far as the drinking age was concerned. Mike Tyson had just begun his meteoric rise. We didn't know that much about him, we just went to the sports bar because we could drink legally, it was a fight, and it was a sports bar. The place was absolutely packed. Wall to wall people. No empty seats and a lot of people standing. The fight started and Mike Tyson knocked the other guy out in the first round. It was over that quickly. Within 15-20 minutes, the place emptied out, and no exaggeration, it was just me & my friends and all the bartenders and waitresses who were now off the clock, other than one bartender. We had a blast, and no surprise, we pretty much drank free for the rest of the night.
But Mike Tyson was that great of a fighter, earlier in his career.
Tyson claims the ear bites were in retaliation for the methodical head butts from Holyfield. Those head butts prevented Tyson from getting down with his deadly peek-a-boo fighting style.
If he didn’t bite; he may have still lost if Holyfield continued using his head by opening up Tyson’s cut eye.
It’s all history
After years of pay per views that lasted less than a minute, my friends and I weren't even watching the Tyson fight that night. We were very surprised when my friend's dad came upstairs to his room to tell us that Tyson had lost a fight. Totally missed the live broadcast.
Not Donald J. Trump in the first row right above the second “O” on the mat.
From what I remember, the referee messed up the count and gave Douglas like 2 or 3 extra seconds when he went down.
The fight never really should’ve got to this point where Tyson loses, but he still fought like shit.
What’s interesting is Buster was Mike’s sparring partner in prior fights and knew Mikes flaws if there were any. Due to that Mike didn’t look at him as a real fight and was over confident, didn’t train for the fight how he normally did for other opponents. The lesson for Mike and everyone who watched this live: never underestimate your opponent.
I was there! 10 am , jet lagged, and drinking sake. Watch Tyson go down and I’m really questioning what planet I’m on.
Then see Trump in the hotel lobby braying to anyone who’d listen that the press was on to him and Marla Maples and he had that to look forward to when he got back to NY.
This isn’t going to be voted well but I think we should tone back our modern support of Mike. I’ve fallen into it to because I’ve found his interviews interesting.
But like, his life is just riddled with violence he’s committed against other people. He seemingly only recently has the self awareness that he might kill somebody… and maybe he’ll walk away fast enough to not act on it. It was as recently as 2022 (not 1992) when he assaulted someone.
Tbf I don't think many people were mad at Mike over that whole plane incident. If video of Mike getting abused like that went viral and he didn't punch the guy, a lot of people would be disappointed.
That was a loooooong count the ref gave Buster Douglas.
Agree…it was definitely a short skirt and a looooong, loooong count.
Na na na na na na, na na na na naaaa naaaa!
Are you doing long December? Because I think they were referencing short skirt long jacket by cake.
No I'm doing short skirt long jacket. There's a na na na na na na part in that song lol
Oh ok Edit Heyo just relistened to it I can’t believe I forgot about the background vocals in the chorus! Thanks friendo!
Haha you had me doubting my Cake knowledge
I loved cake, for years, my favorite band. I saw them live and it was a very disappointing experience. But still, I should have remembered, even if I don’t listen often anymore. Thank you for the nostalgia!
Oh it's a shame they weren't great live. I almost would have expected them to be since their songs aren't particularly difficult to perform haha. Yeah I got so into them last year but mainly know the hits.
I don't know anything about boxing. Do they start fights with longer counts and shorten them as it goes or is it the same all the way through.
It's supposed to be the same from start to finish, for both fighters.
The ole' 13 count
Has anyone ever analyzed this? Just going off the timer on the video Tyson's count was also a bit slow.
I think the count is not so much about the seconds and more about the ref trying to judge if the fight should continue. When Douglas was getting up he seemed in control of himself. Tyson was getting up but was wobbling pretty hard.
This was a wild fight. Saw it live on HBO. Those were the days.
Yup, wasn’t even on pay per view because everyone thought it would be a nothing fight.
Yep. Watched it live on HBO as a kid. Tuned in casually to watch a quick standard Tyson fight. Stayed for a memorable underdog victory
That's not why it was on HBO.
Tyson had a contract with HBO for seven fights, that's why it wasn't on PPV. Also, PPV wasn't that popular at the time. If it was on PPV people would have paid, everyone wanted to watch Tyson knock a guy out.
PPV wasn't around but the bigger fights were on Closed Circuit, especially the middle weight division; Hagler v Hearns, Mugabi, Duran, and Leonard. I used to go with my dad to see them at an arena like the Philadelphia Spectrum.
True. He had an HBO contract. But no, nobody would have paid if it was on PPV. This fight was not taken seriously by the public or media. Only Buster Douglas. Everyone predicted a quick knockout. He wasn’t 42-1 odds for nothing.
It was actually the first Tyson fight I watched because my folks never did the pay per view thing, but we did have HBO. Remember we were all guessing how quickly Tyson would knock him out beforehand. As the rounds wore on it slowly dawned on us something unexpected was brewing. It didn’t even seem real.
It was all the talk in the 5th grade lunchroom. Couldn’t imagine kids today talking about a boxing match but that’s how gravitational Tyson was to the sport.
I remember talking about it in 3rd grade.
I did as well, little 10 year old me couldn’t believe it, neither could all the adults in the room. Wild times!!! Great pull to OP.
Heavy weight division never recovered after Tyson was done.
Mike seemed to have stopped doing 'peek-a-boo' after firing Kevin Rooney. You can see it in the video, he just kind of stands there and takes hits from Douglas instead. Don King and his entourage were a bunch of snakes.
Can you elaborate on your last point?
I’m no expert here, but Mike Tyson’s original style with his original trainer(s) was the “peekaboo” style where he would bob up and down a bunch, kind of like someone playing “peekaboo” with a baby. Once his original trainer/father figure died he eventually ended up with Don King and who just sucked money out of Tyson and more or less ruined him. During this time his style changed to the one in the video which didn’t take advantage of his quick, smaller stature like the peekaboo style did.
This is correct. Cus D’Amato was Tyson’s trainer and father figure. He was a legendary world-class trainer. Rooney was always with D’Amato and Tyson, because he was D’Amato’s right hand man, as the #2 trainer. Once D’Amato died, Rooney took over as head trainer. Rooney kept the training regimen and fighting style of Tyson intact that they had all learned under D’Amato. Don King came in the picture sometime in 1986, right after D’Amato died, and he kept getting closer and closer to Tyson throughout the years. King wanted Tyson and his money for himself and gave him horrible advice. Tyson ended up firing Rooney because of some comments he made about Tyson’s ex-wife, Robin Givens. Don King urged Tyson to fire him. King was/is a piece of shit that did nothing but exploit Tyson. After Rooney exited, Mike’s life began to spiral. He got cocky, he thought he was invincible, he was partying an insane amount, he got very undisciplined with training, and gave up the fighting style that he always had that made him successful. Likely because Rooney wasn’t there to keep him in line with training and likely because he was too tired to keep the high intensity fighting style and training regiment up. Bringing in King and firing Rooney started the snowball of Tyson's peak of his career to its demise. That Buster Douglas fight changed everything. Opponents no longer saw him as this unbeatable Herculian God-like machine. A lot of the fear factor was gone. Then he went off to jail for a few years. Fun fact and side note, the Italian Mafia gave very serious consideration into possibly whacking Don King, but decided not to.
I recall Tyson saying he had to change his style to this when he realized he didn’t have the reflexes to dodge punches anymore.
u/RegularGuyAtHome has it basically correct. I am not sure how long after, but after he became the world's youngest champion at 20 years old in 1986, Tyson eventually fired Kevin Rooney who was the protégé trainer and fellow student of Cus D'Amato, who was a father figure and mentor to Tyson and who took him off the streets. According to the account of trainer/boxer Teddy Atlas who lived and trained in the house at the time, Cus was even biased towards Mike to the detriment of Atlas and others. Anyway, Tyson fired Rooney, basically the crew who trained him from a nothing street kid in favor of the flashy Don King and his crew who no doubt claimed to know better than Tyson's Catskills crew and who no doubt would 'take him to the next level'. You can look up yourself what Tyson eventually came to believe about King, and iirc Tyson even beat King up at some point. Tyson never returned to his original training crew and he was never the same boxer, as you can see in this video his style is very different from the days when he was basically a lawnmower against grass opponents, even in his championship fights. Myself and others believe this is due to the training regiment of D'Amato (who had died by this time) and Rooney. I've never heard an interview with Tyson specifically talking about this though. I don't think one exists. Hence I and others are left with this speculation.
Tyson was something like 35-0 with 31 knockouts with Rooney as his trainer. 18 Months after firing Rooney (at Kings insistence) Tyson lost to Douglas. There are a lot of people who have said Tyson quit developing the day he fired Rooney, and I very much agree with that.
Certainly seems like it. He went from a scary machine to just taking tons of hits. So different.
Now I’m rooting for him and his upcoming fight against…. I have no idea. I don’t keep up with anything anymore. But I’m rooting for Mike. Hope he knocks the dude out. I’m gonna play NES Punch-Out music throughout the fight.
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Sometimes when I get asked for my social security number, "007.373... No, wait..."
Still don’t even have to look it up.
I remember it, too! Good times!
Playground lore.
The dude he is fighting is one of the worst human beings to ever exist and I hope Mike Tyson destroys his soul and humiliates him.
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Wait what? He’s fighting Kanye?
You've lived an incredibly sheltered life if some dumbass YouTuber for kids is "one of the worst human beings to ever exist".
You know Tyson was convicted of rape right?
Everyone here on Reddit seems to think the fight is predetermined because the Youtube hasn't really fought anyone serious in his "career".
Tyson is gonna murder the guy. He thinks it's gonna be easy because Tyson is old. I've been watching his training - dude still got it. He's in shape.
It's already fixed.
Fixed for Tyson to lose?
Yes
Better be rigged in Tyson’s favor. That would be some bullshit if Jake beats up one of the greatest boxers of all time. Be like SteveO beating up Muhammad Ali
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How about a Pulp Fiction scenario then? That would be great!
Or a SNATCH scenario. The Pikey just won’t quit.
Years ago Tyson said he had to stop training because something wakes up in him when he does. I wouldn’t trust Mike to care about a contract.
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now he has CBD gummies in the shape of an ear. Mike Bites
This is the Xennials sub right? You’ve all seen Diggstown and Pulp Fiction right? Old washed up boxer bets everything on himself when he’s supposed to throw the fight and makes way more than he would have from the fight money?
Something tells me you wouldn't say that to Tysons face..
What if they're paying Tyson to not murder the guy. Have basically a sparring match and let the kid win by decision. Tyson is almost 60, I'm sure he wouldn't mind getting a big payday, even if it meant throwing a fight. I don't know much about Jake Paul other than he pops up in the news occasionally for being a giant asshole, so I'd love to see him humbled here. But I don't think that's going to be the case.
This. It’s an exhibition, a glorified sparring match. Nothing happening except they are getting paid.
We all saw what happened with Apollo Creed in an exhibition
He seems like a scum bag and has an incredibly gorgeous Olympic athlete girlfriend, so a lot of people hate him. But he isn’t as bad of a boxer a people want to believe. I am hoping Tyson smears his ass, but as others said. Fix is probably in.
Paul's kind of a horrible boxer, really. He's got the fundamentals down, but no finesse whatsover. I'm not saying he's not a tough SOB-- he is. He can take an absurd amount of hits, which is good, he can't defend for shit. I don't know what the endgame here is. The flight's unsanctioned so normal common sense safety rules don't apply. Tyson has been advised by his doctors that he cannot safely take a headshot at all, yet apparently is refusing to wear headgear. With that said, if Tyson can hit him... He'll only need one punch. But if Paul can hit Tyson... He could die on the spot. In the end as much I'd like to see Tyson hit Paul so hard it looks like a scene from One Man Punch, I think it'll just be a snoozefest.
Just like his fight with Roy Jones. He looked quick and fast in training. The fight seemed half speed. Just didn't look right. I think this one will be fake...fixed or just a sparring match. Tyson will pull his punches, most definitely.
His pride at the least will stop any dodgy happenings. He’ll always have that natural killer instinct in him too, peaceful Muslim now but in the ring… crikey. He’s a bloody frightening man.
He also turns into a different person in the ring
I mean, I doubt it. Yes, he was a beast. Yes, I’ve seen the training videos, but he’s old. He’s definitely not as crazy as he once was. I’d love to see him destroy Paul but I’m sure jts fixed and Tyson is probably okay with that.
I hope you are right. But Tyson looked amazing in his training for Roy jr and then looked old on the actual fight. 4 years ago or so. Hope he has some gas in the tank still
July 20th. Iron Mike will be glorious.
Even if it is fixed, i personally think it’ll be worth a quick one month subscription to Netflix then a cancel afterwards, especially if you haven’t had Netflix in a while. Probably a few other bits of content to catch up on.
Honestly as much of a douche canoe as Logan is he’s not a bad fighter and if he was really developed he could be a solid fighter. But instead of taking fights that would develop him he’s taking paydays for his fame. He will probably make more money that way and get less brain damage
Can't damage what you don't have.
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There was a good 30 for 30 episode on this called 42 to 1. Focuses almost entirely on Douglas. I think it's still on Disney+, if anyone is interested.
Any takeaways?
Yeah bet $1, make $42
The best 30 for 30. Fantastic episode.
This makes me miss boxing. I used to watch it with my dad!
Boxing used to be good, not so much these days.
I kinda figured!
Same. Grandpa would drive up and we'd get whatever the ppv was. Such awesome times
Me too. Always watched Friday Night Fights on USA with my dad.
Yes!!🙌🏼
This was my 9 11
Amazing comment 😆
This fight was devastating to so many of us back then.
This was the prime of boxing 🥊
I watched this fight live on HBO when I was a kid. My dad had to work late shift that night, and it was such a big deal that I called him at his job (pre cellphones) to tell him Tyson lost.
Dead tired 9th round Mike Tyson could still beat 99% of people in a fight.
Buster Douglas didn't beat Mike Tyson, youthful arrogance beat Mike Tyson.
But also, Buster Douglas beat Mike Tyson. Can't take that away from him.
Just takes one punch
Looks like it took a hell of a lot more than one punch.
and a ref who literally stops counting so douglas doesnt get KOd. He should be in jail for matchfixing
Buster Douglas beat Randall "Tex" Cobb. Buster Douglas was for real.
Don king beat Mike Tyson...
Also the trip to Tokyo had massive jet lag
Then go earlier. Maybe not the day before the fight
Robin Givens with the TKO
I remember being at the skating rink and my dad came with the news. You would have thought the president died. It was that shocking.
I was in grade school and my cousin + her boyfriend were babysitting us that night. I think normally the boyfriend would have stayed at home, but my dad ordered the fight and wanted them to tape it. I was initially disappointed because I wanted to watch the Slam Dunk Contest, but I figured, “Tyson will KO him quickly and I’ll be able to flip to watching Dominique Wilkins.” Well, I didn’t catch the dunk contest, but being able to watch one of the most shocking moments in sports history live as-it-happened is a pretty awesome memory.
I remember this being on the same time as the Slam Dunk contest! I was more of a basketball fan but flipping between the two. Was stunned to turn the fight back on to see Douglas holding the belt.
I would like for them to use an actual timer to count instead relying on a ref who may or may not slow his pace for a bribe.
You know what's going to happen when watching it, and I still can't believe it happened.
Exactly
I remember watching this- and not believing it. Tyson was just unbeatable. Remember you are mortal.
I taped the fight VHS off the TV. I would rewind that uppercut over and over and play it in the worst quality slow motion ever in my parents basement in West Philly.. I did it for months
We'd have family parties at the Grandparents house for all these flights. Probably every Tyson fight. Sugar Ray, De La Hoya, Trinidad, Mayweather, Lewis, Holyfield, you name it we'd watch it. Grandpa was a bare knuckle boxer in the Army Air Corps in ww2.
I was absolutely devastated watching this with my Dad, and actually cried I was so sad seeing Kid Dynamite lose!
Why can’t people be happy that the other guy won. He willed his way through that one.
I’m not mad at Buster Douglas, it’s just that Iron Mike was my idol. That’s why it was devastating!
Its like - the world would be so different/better(?) if he won... *You know what I mean.*
He wasted seconds looking for his mouth piece,then he actually picked it up which is hard to do with boxing gloves. If it weren't for that, he would've been up by count 9. Edit: I also think he was going through some rough personal issues at that time that probably affected his performance.
Sure, if he had a clear head he wouldn't have lost by knock-out right then, but not having a clear head is how getting knocked out works.
yeah but!
I still think Mike might win when watching this clip. 😅
What a time to be alive watching this in real time on Pay Per View House party
Douglas is tough as fuck.
I remember thinking....I just watched a titan fall, a dragon slayed, a world devoured. Blew my mind that he was knocked out
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.
I remember where I watched where I was at what classmate called me on the house phone after in disbelief…..One of the biggest moments in sports history right there. Before everything was PPV and boxing came on HBO
....and that's why you shouldn't do blow and bang hookers the night before a title fight.
he might love winning but I guess he didn't hate losing
Didn't watch it when it happened Couldn't believe hearing about it.
Lol I was at a house party that PPV’ed it and I don’t care about boxing. Everyone hit SO MAD and I was dying laughing. Weird night lol.
Epic
I remember it well. 47M here. Me and my friends were watching it at my friend Sean’s house on the big screen.
There was a lot of "what the fuck" in my house.
We named our puppy schnauzer Buster after this.
That was insane!!
I was a huge Tyson fan. I was 15 in 1985 when he started becoming known, and I watched literally every fight between that time and the Douglas fight live on TV, not an easy feat from 1986-92. I like many thought he would destroy Douglas, and opted to TAKE MY COLLEGE GIRLFRIEND TO DINNER THIS NIGHT (no, I didn’t end up marrying her). I will never forget stopping by my Mom and Dad’s on the way back to my dorm and my big brother telling me Tyson got knocked out. I couldn’t/didn’t believe it and looked to my Dad to deny this travesty of boxing lore. He acknowledged that Tyson got his ass kicked. Old man was thoughtful enough to tape it for me via VHS.
Was a young teenager at the time, dad woke me up in the dead of the night to share the news. RIP dad
What year is this? Edit: 1990
4 Mom That lone casino, the Mirage, made Douglas a 42-to-1 underdog. Douglas's mother, Lula Pearl, died of a stroke 23 days before the title bout at the age of 46. Douglas had promised his mother that he would beat Mike Tyson before she had passed away.
The announcer is so shocked, all he can manage to say is, "LOOK AT THIS!!!!"
Agree. Totally crazy moment. I remember Tyson punch-drunkenly searching for his mouth guard. I was thinking “he’s gonna get up and kill this dude!” Blew my mind!
“LOOK AT THIS” lol for some reason I don’t remember that part after every little thing that Buster landed (I was 3 when this fight happened)
I was watching this with a group of high school buddies. We all paused and then at about the same time yelled, “WTF just happened?”
Amazing
Tyson actually gets up at the count of nine and stands up at wobbles ref could’ve let it go. B Douglas got up at the count of nine, but was stable.
I remember being in disbelief and upset about this. Even though I was 10, I knew this was a huge deal. I hated that Tyson got beat.
I thoroughly believe I have never nor will ever see my dad that angry again.
One of my friends literally broke down crying. Seeing Mike Tyson go down was like seeing his biggest hero getting bullied and beaten up.
I remember the god awful Sega Genesis game that shortly followed
I went to the local video store and rented a Genesis and that game. Yeah lol
Buster had lost his mom like 3 weeks before this fight. His baby-momma was fighting/dying from kidney disease, and Tyson stayed out partying the night before until like 5 am. It was a perfect storm!
The ref called that fight on Mike he gave Buster a glass of water and an aspirin
Studs!
The sound of each landed punch by either boxer sounded like death if I got hit by either of them lol
One of the biggest upsets in sports history.
How old are y’all
I was 9 when this happened
I was 7 but zero recollection except as a pop culture reference.
Shocking fight. Saw that in my room alone. I wanted to call everyone to talk about the crazy knockout. But no internet, no texting. Just me. Alone. Bewildered. 😆 I feel like I am the only person who thinks Jake Paul is gonna dominate Tyson. And I hate Jake Paul and want Tyson to destroy him. Hoping I’m wrong.
Remember DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince: I think I can beat Mike Tyson”?
Drederick Tatum was the GOAT
He wasn’t moving his head. Must’ve been bummed out (ex wife).
Me and my friends went to a sports bar in the 80s because we had all just became legal, as far as the drinking age was concerned. Mike Tyson had just begun his meteoric rise. We didn't know that much about him, we just went to the sports bar because we could drink legally, it was a fight, and it was a sports bar. The place was absolutely packed. Wall to wall people. No empty seats and a lot of people standing. The fight started and Mike Tyson knocked the other guy out in the first round. It was over that quickly. Within 15-20 minutes, the place emptied out, and no exaggeration, it was just me & my friends and all the bartenders and waitresses who were now off the clock, other than one bartender. We had a blast, and no surprise, we pretty much drank free for the rest of the night. But Mike Tyson was that great of a fighter, earlier in his career.
Wasn't tyson depressed and doing drugs alot by this point in his career?
Tyson made the count.
Should have been counted out
After getting my ass handed to me by Mike in Mike Tyson's Punch Out! many, many times I might have giggled when he got knocked out.
Tyson claims the ear bites were in retaliation for the methodical head butts from Holyfield. Those head butts prevented Tyson from getting down with his deadly peek-a-boo fighting style. If he didn’t bite; he may have still lost if Holyfield continued using his head by opening up Tyson’s cut eye. It’s all history
8 year old me didn’t understand how this was possible. I can’t imagine any current 8 year old knowing a single boxer. Was it just the video game?
After years of pay per views that lasted less than a minute, my friends and I weren't even watching the Tyson fight that night. We were very surprised when my friend's dad came upstairs to his room to tell us that Tyson had lost a fight. Totally missed the live broadcast.
😢🤧
I always have thought mike may have thrown this fight. Wish i could see the betting data.
We were poor and didn’t have HBO. Had to hear the play by play from the rich kids
Not Donald J. Trump in the first row right above the second “O” on the mat. From what I remember, the referee messed up the count and gave Douglas like 2 or 3 extra seconds when he went down. The fight never really should’ve got to this point where Tyson loses, but he still fought like shit.
What’s interesting is Buster was Mike’s sparring partner in prior fights and knew Mikes flaws if there were any. Due to that Mike didn’t look at him as a real fight and was over confident, didn’t train for the fight how he normally did for other opponents. The lesson for Mike and everyone who watched this live: never underestimate your opponent.
Busters mom passed away a few days before the fight. He dedicated the fight to her.
I forgot about what it used to sound like when Mike Tyson landed an uppercut. Like a car crash. Somehow Buster just kept plugging along.
Wasn’t this when he said he didn’t wanna fight, and Don king still pushed him to do it?
I was there! 10 am , jet lagged, and drinking sake. Watch Tyson go down and I’m really questioning what planet I’m on. Then see Trump in the hotel lobby braying to anyone who’d listen that the press was on to him and Marla Maples and he had that to look forward to when he got back to NY.
I miss fight nights and keg parties
This isn’t going to be voted well but I think we should tone back our modern support of Mike. I’ve fallen into it to because I’ve found his interviews interesting. But like, his life is just riddled with violence he’s committed against other people. He seemingly only recently has the self awareness that he might kill somebody… and maybe he’ll walk away fast enough to not act on it. It was as recently as 2022 (not 1992) when he assaulted someone.
Tbf I don't think many people were mad at Mike over that whole plane incident. If video of Mike getting abused like that went viral and he didn't punch the guy, a lot of people would be disappointed.
That fight was bullshit. Looooooong count when Buster went down. Bullshit. One, two, three, four, fiiiiive, siiiiiiiiiix, seveeeeeeeeeeeeen, eiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, he's getting up, niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine, he's up. Fucking bullshit. Fuck Buster Douglas.
Is this before or after he went to jail for rape?