His why was greater than defeat! His why was greater than his trial and his tribulation. Simply because his why was greater than that punch. Challenger James 'Buster' Douglas knocks out Mike Tyson in their heavyweight title fight in Tokyo, Feb. When his mother died, he can die with his mother or made a decision, ‘I can wake up… and I can live for mom’ and he knocked Mike Tyson out. She told the whole world that I was going to beat Mike Tyson.” “And two days before the fight, my mother died.” Buster Douglas had decision to make. Buster Douglas started fighting back! And the world was shocked! Goliath has been knocked down, “what happened?” And they went to Buster Douglas, and they asked Buster Douglas simply like, “what happened?” And Buster Douglas said “Listen to me, it’s really simple. And it life’s got you backed up, I need you to do what Buster Douglas did. Listen to me, if it would be easy everybody would do it. Listen to me, many of you right now, life’s got you up against the rope. And exactly that, Mike Tyson come out like – I got him. Once he comes back out, that’s it, Mike is just gonna hammer him. He goes to his corner, and the whole world is like ‘yep that’s it’. Relive Buster Douglas 10th-round knockout of then-unbeaten Iron Mike Tyson in their heavyweight title fight in Tokyo, Japan, on February 11, 1990. It was almost a ten count, he was stumbling. Nobody ever got knocked down by Mike Tyson and ever get back up. Life’s gonna hit you in your mouth and you gotta do me a huge favour your why has to be greater than that knockdown. He said, “Cause I promised my momma before she died that I was gonna beat him.“You can write everything down if you want to, be brave enough to write every one of your goals down, but I’m going to tell you something. Say it now gentlemen, James “Buster” Douglas – undisputed heavyweight champion of the world!Įric Thomas: And they asked Buster Douglas at the end, they say, “How in the world did you beat Mike Tyson?” HBO Announcer: Let’s go ahead and call it the biggest upset in the history of heavyweight championship fights. HBO Announcer: Mike Tyson has been knocked out! HBO Color Commentator: He’s…he’s…it’s over! It’s over!
Referee: …Two!…Three!…Four!…Five!…Six!…Seven…Eight!… And I don’t know what happened, but somewhere around the 10th round, my man Buster Douglas does what no fighter has ever done in the history of Mike Tyson fights. My man was like, “Are you straight? Can you go on? Cause I’m tellin’ you, Mike ’bout to knock you out.” This dude gets to about eight, nine, he like kind of just, you know, barely up. Nobody in the history of boxing – when Mike knocked you out, nobody gets up. Just a couple nights before the fight, Buster Douglas’ mom died.Īnd so Buster Douglas was like, “Look, moms died. “Mike Tyson can’t handle my baby.” Her baby ain’t won more than about seven or eight fights, you know what I’m sayin’? Mike Tyson is like undefeated.īut what happened was, just a couple days before the actual fight, his mom dies.
He knockin’ folk out, like don’t do that, ya know. He’s like “Ma, chill out, this is Mike Tyson. He was supposed to fight somebody else, but this was like a fight in between until he could fight I guess Holyfield or whoever he was trying to fight.īut the crazy thing – when you study the story – is that this dude’s mom had told everybody at the beauty shop that her son was gonna beat Mike Tyson. This guy right here Buster Douglas…matter of fact, the reports say that Mike wasn’t even supposed to fight him. If you didn’t catch Mike Tyson’s fight like in the first or second round, you missed the whole thing.īut this was a little different. Like everybody, he just ‘bop bop’ and they’re just droppin’ to the ground.
And this cat used to come out with like black shoes, no socks, little shorts, and within like one or two rounds you’re knocked out. Buster Douglas was a staggering 42-1 underdog against Mike Tyson back in 1990 and stunned the world by knocking out the previously undefeated KO artist. But it was like, life-changing, right?Īt this point, Mike Tyson had never lost a fight. Eric Thomas: It was just like a little boxing match.
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