Douglas did not perform well against Tony Tucker and was knocked out in ten rounds.Īfter the Tucker defeat Douglas won four consecutive fights and went on to fight Trevor Berbick in 1989, winning by a unanimous decision. This earned him a shot at the International Boxing Federation championship that Michael Spinks was stripped of for refusing to defend it. The next year he fought up and coming contender Jesse Ferguson, but was beaten by majority decision.ĭouglas fought three times in 1986, defeating former champion Greg Page and fringe contender David Jaco in two of the fights. Douglas defeated the former heavyweight contender by winning a majority decision. Berbick pulled out of the bout three days before it was scheduled and Randall "Tex" Cobb elected to take the fight in Berbick's place. On November 9, Douglas was scheduled to fight heavyweight contender Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas. 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.
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