We all know that Mike Tyson was koned by Douglas in the 1990 Battle of Tokyo, which claimed to be the biggest underdog in heavyweight boxing history, after the mediocre Douglas KOed the unbeaten boxing champion Tyson in an undisputed way, and this match was undoubtedly the most brilliant victory of Douglas's career.
So in addition to Douglas beating Tyson, he also won those major tournaments? Douglas entered the professional boxing world in 1981, and although he was not a very talented boxer, he worked very hard, and at the beginning of his career, due to the low quality of his opponents, he won most of the matches very smoothly.
In 1986 Douglas improved very quickly, this year he beat three top ten contenders in the world in a row, and he was promoted to legal challenger by IBF, the IBF boxing champion at the time was the famous Spinks, but he refused to play against Douglas, as we all know, the IBF has always been strict regardless of how big you are, as long as you do not accept the legal competition will be stripped of the gold belt.
After Spinks was stripped of his gold belt, the organization arranged for him to compete with Tony Tucker for the vacant title of Boxer. Being able to hit the heavyweight legal challenger position also proves that Douglas is not as good as many netizens commented on the level of a third- or fourth-rate boxer. The match against Tucker was Douglas' first world title match, and although he started well, he was koked by the powerful Tucker, who had fought Tyson for 12 rounds and lost to Tyson by a small score.
After losing to Tucker, Douglas won six consecutive high-quality matches, including former KO boxing champion Williams, former boxing champion Bobik, and McCall, who later became the boxing champion of KO Lewis, and it was because of the defeat that McCall qualified him to challenge Tyson.
At that time, Tyson did not pay attention to him at all, just for a transitional battle before the big battle of Holyfield, but unfortunately the arrogant soldiers must be defeated, and Tyson paid a painful price. After defeating Tyson, Douglas refused the second battle, but chose to fight Against Holyfield, and after becoming famous, he was immersed in the joy of victory every day, and various activities and parties kept him busy.
Douglas weighed 246 pounds at 246 pounds, which was also his heaviest since 1985, and 231 pounds in the big game Tyson, Douglas was unresponsive and completely unable to keep up with Hollyfield's rhythm, and finally was KO punched in the third leg, after which Douglas fell silent, and officially retired after beating a rookie boxer in one leg in 1999.
Looking at Douglas's career, the early performance is still very eye-catching, although it can not be compared with those super-first-class boxers, but from 1985 to 1990 has remained in the top competition ranks, is also a manifestation of strength, as the boxer of that era can achieve such results has been very good.