Terrific article on Tyson-Douglas

[Scott9945]

I had very little interest in this topic, but this article by Eric Raskin was highly recommended to me. It is quite excellent.

http://www.playboy.com/articles/mike-tyson-42-1-playboy

[TBear]

Interesting, and it brings back memories. My kids were little and watched the fight with me. After the fight we put them to bed and I could hear my daughter crying in bed... "I (sob)... hate(sob)... Buster Douglas!!"

[Scott9945]

Interesting, and it brings back memories. My kids were little and watched the fight with me. After the fight we put them to bed and I could hear my daughter crying in bed... "I (sob)... hate(sob)... Buster Douglas!!"

I found Merchant's comment about Douglas being regarded like a presidential assassin on point.

[soul_survivor]

Watching that fight and listening to the crowd react...or the absence of the reaction, makes the KO even more chilling. It was like the Emperor of Japan had been shot dead in broad daylight.

[rightsideup]

thanks for sharing scott

[BattlingNelson]

Thanks for this.

I remember watching the fight in the middle of the night with absolutely zero expectations as this was after the Spinks, Tubbs and Williams fights. It was meant to be another night without sleep, but since this was for the most important title in sports you stay up rather than record it.

I really hated Tyson back then. Not because he was Tyson, but because real boxing people where saying that he was up there with my hero Ali. So seeing Tyson get that monstrous asswhooping was jawdropping. I couldn't fall asleep after that. No way.

[billeau2]

i was in graduate school...not many fight fans, except for the occasional betting ring taking action on Kant's A-priori imperatives versus Hume's Scientific Critique, or the bruising Hegal Teleos versus Shopenhuer.....Hegel by KO and I was backing Schopenhuer

So alone little me mosied on down to Haight Street San Francisco to the Rockin Robin sports bar for a beer and a view of the Tyson Douglas fiasco. I think that night was the most fun at a fight I have ever had. In San Francisco it is much more of a dirty secret to be a fight fan, in the land of free love, than to come out of the closet, or do many drugs! So there we were...all men of shame (and quite a few honeys as well!) united by our dirty secret...When suddenly things started to happen...and wouldn't you know it? like a gaggle of geese more people are starting to look at the TV and come in...its electric....At any time we expect the party to shut down but no its the fourth round and Buster is still on the right side of the ground....could it be?

By the time Douglas had weathered the punch....We were all screaming, like caged animals....none of us could have expressed in the houses of our friends but at the Rockin Robin, our cohort of shame....

Anyway. What a night. i almost didn't even go. The way I figure, if I lose two hndred thousand bucks in Vegas, If I blow the mortgage money...at least I made two good decisions in life. I married my baby and went to the Rockin Robin and watched one of the most incredible upsets ever in the square circle.

[Anthony342]

Great article. So Douglas got over a million for the Tyson fight. How much did he get for the Holyfield fight?

[BKM-2010]

My problem with Douglass was never that he beat one of my all time favorites, it's what he did after he captured the undisputed HW title. How he came into the Holyfield fight not only fat and out shape, but literally quit right after the first punch he got hit with. Disgraceful really. A legacy enhancing win of taking Tyson's 0 away from him should have been done by Holyfield or Lewis, atleast they would have done something with a historic win like that.

[BattlingNelson]

i was in graduate school...not many fight fans, except for the occasional betting ring taking action on Kant's A-priori imperatives versus Hume's Scientific Critique, or the bruising Hegal Teleos versus Shopenhuer.....Hegel by KO and I was backing Schopenhuer

So alone little me mosied on down to Haight Street San Francisco to the Rockin Robin sports bar for a beer and a view of the Tyson Douglas fiasco. I think that night was the most fun at a fight I have ever had. In San Francisco it is much more of a dirty secret to be a fight fan, in the land of free love, than to come out of the closet, or do many drugs! So there we were...all men of shame (and quite a few honeys as well!) united by our dirty secret...When suddenly things started to happen...and wouldn't you know it? like a gaggle of geese more people are starting to look at the TV and come in...its electric....At any time we expect the party to shut down but no its the fourth round and Buster is still on the right side of the ground....could it be?

By the time Douglas had weathered the punch....We were all screaming, like caged animals....none of us could have expressed in the houses of our friends but at the Rockin Robin, our cohort of shame....

Anyway. What a night. i almost didn't even go. The way I figure, if I lose two hndred thousand bucks in Vegas, If I blow the mortgage money...at least I made two good decisions in life. I married my baby and went to the Rockin Robin and watched one of the most incredible upsets ever in the square circle.

This is my take on Schopenhauer, Hegel and Wittgenstein: