TOKYO: Four days before he fought Buster Douglas, a bored Mike Tyson told news conference, “No way I can lose.”
He was wrong.
While Tyson still believes he’s the heavyweight champion even after he was knocked out by Douglas in the 10th round on February 10th the previously invincible heavyweight now has to deal with a loss, albeit a disputed one for now.
Tyson, who watches films of great fighters of the past, may now look to those former champions as he plans to regain the title,
“Greater fighters than I have lost,” Tyson said Sunday night, dark glasses covering his battered face and a closed left eye,
The end of the fight was a scene to boggle the mind, as he hit the canvas in the 10th; Tyson’s mouthpiece popped about 18 inches into the air. He groped for it and put it in his mouth backwards,
“The hardest part is coming back from losing to show how tough you are,” Tyson said at a news conference where World Boxing Association officials said Iron Mike wasn’t lost yet.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 16, 1990
