![]() ![]() JSTOR ( February 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭouglas made his debut on May 31, 1981, and defeated Dan O'Malley in a four-round bout.Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. This section of a biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. He moved back to Columbus to focus on boxing. He also played basketball at Sinclair Community College from 1979 to 1980 in Dayton, Ohio, before attending Mercyhurst University on a basketball scholarship. He is in the Coffeyville Community College Men's Basketball Hall of Fame. After high school, Douglas played basketball for the Coffeyville Community College Red Ravens in Coffeyville, Kansas, from 1977 to 1978 the 17-year-old was a 6'0" power forward. He attended Linden McKinley High School, where he played football and basketball, leading Linden to a Class AAA state basketball championship in 1977. His father ran a gym at the Blackburn Recreation Center near Downtown Columbus and subsequently introduced young James to boxing (in the same way James would later bring his son Lamar to the same gym). The son of professional boxer William "Dynamite" Douglas and Lula Pearl Douglas, Douglas grew up in Columbus, Ohio, in the predominantly black Linden neighborhood of Windsor Terrace. Retiring shortly after the loss, Douglas returned to boxing between 19 until he retired a second and final time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion for eight months until he was defeated by Evander Holyfield in his only title defense. Defying expectations, Douglas would knock out Tyson in the 10th round to claim the WBC, WBA, and IBF titles. He also defeated heavyweight world champions Oliver McCall, Trevor Berbick, and Greg Page.ĭouglas was a 42-to-1 underdog going into his 1990 fight against Tyson, who was undefeated and considered to be the best boxer in the world for his domination of the division over the previous three years. He reigned as undisputed world heavyweight champion in 1990 after knocking out Mike Tyson to win the title. He knocks Mike Tyson out.James " Buster" Douglas (born April 7, 1960) is an American former professional boxer who competed between 19. 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. ![]()
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