Midway through the round he threw a sluggish uppercut that only succeeded in throwing himself off balance and giving Holyfield a shot. Then he hit Holyfield with a decent shot at the start of the third, became a little too giddy and started going after shots. Douglas sucked up punches for the first two rounds without throwing anything of note. Douglas seemed intent on proving him right when he faced Holyfield. Tyson has always maintained that, while Douglas boxed manfully in Tokyo, his victory was essentially a fluke. He eschewed the rematch with Tyson and instead picked up $24m for fighting Evander Holyfield. While Tyson asked himself if he had become bigger than Jesus, Douglas set about making some money. I just lay on my bed and thought that I had become so big that God was jealous of me.” God has to keep the big animals in check so they won’t get lofty on their thrones. He told himself that he was robbed but also wondered if his sheer domination of his fellow man had irked the Almighty: “I knew that God didn’t pick on any small animals, that lightning only struck the biggest animals, that those are the only ones that vex God. Tyson went back to his hotel room but there was no maid to console him and he was no longer the champ. Two rounds later he was the heavyweight champion of the world.īuster Douglas stands over knocked out Mike Tyson in the 10th round. Douglas was given a few extra seconds of grace and was able to pull himself back on to his feet. But the timekeeper was Japanese and the referee was Mexican, and they couldn’t understand each other well enough to count to 10 together. No consequences for treating the fight with a haughty disrespect and ignoring the merits of an opponent who had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Things were looking ominous by the eighth, but then he threw a trademark upper-cut with his right and knocked Douglas off his feet. The one-eyed Tyson trudged back into the centre of the ring, where he traded punches and expended more energy for a couple of rounds. They filled up a latex glove – “what looked like an extra-large condom with ice water” – and held it against his podgy face. He went back to his corner to discover that his team hadn’t bothered to bring an ice pack or any endswell to relieve the pain and reduce the bulge. The fight started and I fought horribly.”īy the end of the fifth round, his left eye was in bad shape. It was obvious to anyone who was watching that I really didn’t want to be there. Tyson is under no illusions about his complete failure to turn up for the fight: “It wasn’t the usual Tyson going into the ring. And then two more girls, one at a time, the night before the fight.” On the eve of the fight, he weighed in at a respectable 220 pounds, pocketed his bonus and looked to make merry: “The day before the fight I also had two maids at the same time. Having arrived in Japan 30 pounds too heavy, he had bet King that he could slim down on time. Tyson was nonchalant about the fight but he was determined to make the weight. Robin would go out shopping and I would go downstairs to the back of the hotel where this young girl had a room. David Haye famously refrained from sex for six weeks before his fights, explaining his reticence with the mantra: “Find a lion that hasn’t had some food for a while, and you’ve got a dangerous cat.” Tyson saw things differently: “Besides having sex with the maids, I was seeing this young Japanese girl who I had had sex with the last time I was in Japan. Tyson had no interest in sparring, but he built up a sweat with the local women.
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