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After the upset in Tokyo, Buster Douglas celebrated his victory to the fullest. He went on all of the talk shows, appeared on a wrestling show instead of Tyson, and was enjoying life as a celebrity. One other thing occurred. He got fat. Evander had originally signed to fight Tyson on June 15, 1990, but […]

George Foreman began a comeback in March of 1987 to recapture the heavyweight championship he lost to Muhammad Ali in 1974. After a ten year hiatus from the sport in which he becamw a minister, boxing was the last thing on his mind. But after running out of money, he went back to the thing

After the controversial ending to their first fight on March 18, 1991, a rematch was immediately set up. Tyson acted increasingly bizarre and belligerent in the pre-fight interviews for the second bout, and it only him more unlikeable and annoying. I never liked him anyway, and these antics deepened that dislike. The second fight took

I had just come back from a ten day trip to Vegas and LA, when I went to the Pavilion in Cherry Hill, New Jersey to see Mike Tyson versus Razor Ruddock. I had stopped by the Mirage in Vegas while out there, and asked if Tyson or Ruddock were holding public workouts, and was

After the humiliating knockout on February, Don King tried to claim that there was a long count in the 8th round when Tyson dropped Douglas with a right uppercut. King claimed that the count actually reached 13, and that Tyson had knocked Buster out first, and should still be the champion. By the time the

When Mike Tyson signed to fight James ‘Buster’ Douglas on February 11, 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, most thought it would be another easy night for the reigning champ. No one in Vegas or Atlantic City wanted the fight, and the odds favoring Tyson were 42-1, with only a handful of casinos in Vegas actually taking

When Muhammad Ali fought George Foreman in October of 1974, I was more interested in baseball, more specifically the Baltimore Orioles. Ali was such a famous figure though, that I was very aware of the fight. I read Sport magazine and Sports Illustrated, which both covered the fight extensively, and I couldn’t help but get

I was working for a local Philadelphia airline at the time Sugar Ray Leonard was set to fight Kevin Howard on May 11, 1984 in Worcester, Massachusetts. I wanted to see Ray train, so I flew up standby to Boston a week or so before the fight, rented a car and drove to Worcester to

Trevor Berbick was a Jamaican pro boxer who moved to Canada and won their heavyweight title. He came to prominence in 1980 on the undercard of the first Leonard-Duran fight in Montreal by knocking out former WBA champ John Tate. The following April he went the 15 round distance with WBC champ Larry Holmes and

When Larry Holmes lost for the second time in a row to Michael Spinks in April of 1986, it was pretty much assumed that he would never fight again. But in boxing, you never know. By the fall of 1987, Larry was talking of making a comeback at age 38. When Mike Tyson easily knocked