In his last fight of 1983 Douglas was dominating opponent Mike White, only to lose the fight when White knocked him out in the ninth round. Two of his wins were against Jesse Clark, who never won a fight in his career Douglas fought him a total of three times and knocked him out all three times. He was penalized two points during the course of the fight which proved to be the difference.Īfter the draw Douglas went on to beat largely journeyman fighters over the next fourteen months. Bey knocked Douglas out in the second round to hand him his first defeat.Īfter six more fights, all wins, Douglas fought Steffen Tangstad to a draw on October 16, 1982. He won his first five fights before coming into a fight with David Bey twenty pounds heavier than he usually did in his early fights. Boxing career ĭouglas made his debut on and defeated Dan O'Malley in a four round bout. However, Buster Douglas distanced himself from the "Desert Fox" label no later than 1985 because of clarification from his promotional team and the concern that he might be confused with Syrian boxer, Ghiath Tayfour. Several friends of Buster Douglas mistakenly believed that Rommel was known as the "Desert Fox" and subsequently addressed the future Heavyweight Champion as such. This moniker was affixed to Douglas because of a misinterpreted encyclopedia entry regarding Douglas MacArthur and Erwin Rommel. For a brief period of time during his early twenties, Douglas was known as the "Desert Fox" within the Columbus boxing community. He moved back to Columbus to focus on boxing. He also played basketball at Sinclair Community College from 1979 to 1980 in Dayton, OH before attending Mercyhurst University on a basketball scholarship. He is in the Coffeyville Red Ravens 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 where the seventeen-year-old was a 6 feet 0 inch Power forward. He attended Linden McKinley High School where he played football and basketball, even leading Linden to a Class AAA state basketball championship in 1977. The son of professional boxer William "Dynamite" Douglas, Douglas grew up in Columbus, Ohio, in the predominantly black Linden-area neighborhood, Windsor Terrace. 2.1 Championship fight against Mike Tyson. ![]() The Mirage Casino in Las Vegas, the only Las Vegas casino to make odds on the fight (all others declining to do so as they considered the fight such a foregone conclusion), had Douglas as a 42 to 1 underdog for the fight, making his victory, in commentator Reg Gutteridge's words, "the biggest upset in boxing history, bar none."ĭouglas held the title for eight months and two weeks, losing on October 25, 1990, to 28-year-old, 6-foot-2-inch, 208-pound Evander Holyfield, via third-round KO, in his only title defense. At the time, Tyson was considered to be the best boxer in the world and one of the most feared heavyweight champions in history due to his utter domination of the division. ![]() ![]() James "Buster" Douglas (born April 7, 1960) is a former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion who scored a stunning upset when he knocked out previously undefeated champion Mike Tyson on Februin Tokyo, Japan. ( Formatting error: invalid input when rounding kg) Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[". Weight: Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "[".
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