It was just to keep pressuring him and keep the hands up and it worked out for us.” We didn’t think he could really fight on his heels backing up so that was the game plan. The game plan was to just put pressure on him and keep him backing up. He’d throw punches from every different angle, unusual angles. What did you think of him as a fighter?īuster Douglas: Yeah, it was a tough fight. Jenna J: Before your fight with Tyson, you faced off against future champion Oliver McCall in July 1989. So it was a long road back but I was willing to and my group was willing to put forth the effort to get another opportunity to get another shot for the title. It was up to me to get in great shape and to be ready to fight anybody that would get in there to get back into title contention. How did you deal with that road back?īuster Douglas: Well you know by then with the loss, everyone was willing to fight me and we had no problems with having the opportunity of getting people back in there to catapult my career back to contender ship. Jenna J: After the loss to Tony Tucker you had to build yourself back to being a contender. We started fight again until we got another opportunity. That’s why I think that fight didn’t really go like we planned, but then we just had to go back to the drawing board and we restructured our camp. It kind of came out in the fight because we had a lot of problems. There were a lot of problems that we were having in the camp leading up to that fight and I think it just spilled over into the fight. We were still really, John and I, and J.D, and my dad were still kind of gelling and coming together. What do you think happened with that fight?īuster Douglas: Yeah that was a pretty tough time for me. Jenna J: You ended up getting a title shot against Tony Tucker. So with the opportunity, John called me and he asked me, ‘What do you think about “Tex” Cobb?’ and I said ‘He can be beat’. What did you think of that match?īuster Douglas: That was a big win because Cobb was a contender. Jenna J: Your first big fight was against Randall “Tex” Cobb on 3 days notice. Once I kind of established myself as a fighter/boxer more so than a banger it kind of let itself be known I guess.” Jenna J: Did you feel any extra pressure following in your fathers footsteps?īuster Douglas: Well a little bit, because my father fought with a little different style than I did and everybody was expecting me to emulate him I guess.
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I really felt that I had the desire to go professional and see where it would take me and it led me to the heavyweight championship. I decided after my junior year in college to give it a shot. He was a National Amateur Champion and a light middleweight and a light heavyweight contender, so that was kind of what brought me to it. Jenna J: How did you find your way into the sport of boxing?īuster Douglas: Well I was introduced to the sport of boxing through my father. Buster also speaks on the long count controversy from Tyson knocking him down and talks about his career after the fight that included his title defense against Evander Holyfield. Douglas breaks down in great detail his fight with Mike Tyson and shares his thoughts on the accomplishment of overcoming 42-1 odds. Buster talks about how he got into the sport and about the early part of his career. In this “On The Ropes” classics interview I speak with Buster Douglas to get his thoughts on his career and his historic fight with Mike Tyson. Today marks 32st anniversary of that upset. Buster shocked the world and scored one of the biggest upsets in sports history when he knocked out Tyson in the 10th round of the fight to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. Douglas came into the fight as a 42-1 underdog against a fighter who was thought to be unbeatable. When James “Buster” Douglas faced Mike Tyson on February 11th 1990 in Tokyo, Japan, few gave him a chance to be anything more then another knockout on Tyson’s undefeated record.
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