He was right I got overconfident and forgot about my mission of wanting to kick his butt, wanting to reflect on the fight in the middle of the round”.Ĭontroversy has reigned over the length of the count Douglas got for me, he gets up just as the count reaches that moment just after nine but before 10. When I came home, the first thing my Dad said was you got confident in that 8th round. He showed me by catching me with that shot he showed me he was still alive, still in there trying to get me. I wanted to let him know that I was in his butt. “In my head, I was like, what you think about me now, sucker? That’s when I got caught with that shot. Commentators question whether Mike was baiting him in as they thought Mike was hurt. The commentators, almost in disbelief, relay how Mike has been neutralized and frustrated.ĭouglas lands two solid jabs, powering in right hooks and uppercuts as Tyson appears hurt, just before Tyson amazingly cripples Douglas with one of those time-stopping crunching uppercuts putting him down for the count with just seconds of the round to go. You can clearly hear the instructions being shouted by Douglas’ corner. Watching a video of that round today, the first thing you notice is the eerie silence of the crowd. Moving on into the fight itself and specifically reflecting on round 8, Douglas’ inner confidence peaked as he battled his way into the bout, ignoring the complete disregard of even his existence in the fight. Thoughtfully and giving an insight into his personality, he continued, “It could have been really disheartening if you were into that type of stuff, but it was very encouraging for me cause I felt like it was just how I thought it was going to be, total disrespect.”
When questioned on whether he was given any chance by the media to win the fight Douglas nonchalantly replies, “Not at all, the whole time I was in there in Tokyo it was his (Tyson) show, they were just making sure I turned up to the press conferences or open gym workouts.”
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Basically, it was like they just wanted to know how to identify the body (at the end of the fight) by checking what color shorts or shoes I would be wearing, it was hilarious.” “The reporters that were there were asking me really basic questions, like what color trunks I was going to be wearing? How is it here in Tokyo? Nothing really about the fight itself, the strategy, or anything. We had individual press conferences in Tokyo we were second, Tyson did his first when I came in to do mine the room was in disarray, tables and chairs were turned over, there were only 6 or 7 reporters there on the front row, behind them the room was in disarray, it looked like we were coming in there to clean up! It was as if we were the clean-up crew or something”.
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