Anything offered above 10-to-1 would have made Douglas the biggest Heavyweight underdog of all time. The most popular bet across Vegas was for Tyson to drop Douglas and end the fight in either Round 2 or 3.Ģ. It’s like, who would offer a moneyline on Centenary vs Alabama if they’re a 65-point underdog?” “At some point, it’s like what’s the point in offering it anymore. “We were booking Tyson fights and, as he continued to crush people, the underdogs were going from 6-to-1 to 8-to-1,” recalled Jimmy Vaccaro, the head bookmaker at the Mirage at the time. All sportsbooks offered odds on when Tyson would knock out Douglas, but only one - the Mirage - offered bettors the chance to bet on Tyson or Douglas straight-up. Thirty years later, there’s plenty to clear up about “42-to-1” odds story.ġ. Mike Tyson, one of the biggest longshot victories ever in a head-to-head competition.īut as with all upset tales, Douglas over Tyson has taken on a life of its own after the fact. 11 marks the 32nd anniversary of Buster Douglas’ 42-to-1 upset vs. World Boxing Council President Jose Sulaiman and Don King both said Monday night that they recongnize Buster Douglas as heavyweight champion.Editor’s note: This article was originally published in December 2018, before ESPN’s airing of the “42 to 1” documentary.įeb. However, before he did, Olivares was up at the count of nine when he had been down for 11.85 seconds.Īnd, when he was finally counted out, he was really out- 14.3 seconds on the floor. 23, 1974-Alexis Arguello won the featherweight championship by knocking out Ruben Olivares in the 13th round. He had been down, though, for 10.1 seconds. But he prolonged the ending by getting up at an eight count. 18, 1970-Bob Foster was eventually knocked out by heavyweight champion Joe Frazier. Then, when he was counted out in the fifth round, he had been on the floor for more than 11 seconds. Johansson beat the count on the first knockdown, but he was actually down for 10.3 seconds. However, it took him longer to knock out Johansson than it should have. June 20, 1960-After being knocked out by Ingemar Johansson in their first fight, Floyd Patterson avenged the defeat in the rematch. Fullmer was really out, on the canvas for 11.8 seconds. May 1, 1957-Sugar Ray Robinson regained the middleweight title for the fourth time by knocking out Gene Fullmer in the fifth round. He should have been, since he had been down for 11.8 seconds. June 10, 1948-In the third Tony Zale-Rocky Graziano fight, Graziano was counted out in the third round.
Oh, well, he got knocked out anyway in the second round. 27, 1950-Sugar Ray Robinson deposited one Jean Spock on the canvas, but Spock beat the count even though he was down for 10.62 seconds. The count was 10, but Conn was on the floor for 12.4 seconds.
June 18, 1941-Heavyweight champion Joe Louis knocked out Billy Conn in the 13th round in a memorable bout. So Tyson, of all people, should be aware that the time his opponents spend on the floor is not synchronized with the actual count.
NBC put a clock on Tyson and found he was down almost exactly as long as Douglas was in the eighth. 10, 1990-In his loss to Douglas, Tyson, in the 10th, got up at the count of nine but was still counted out because he was in no condition to continue. The count was 10, but Berbick had been reclining for 14 seconds.įeb. 22, 1986-Tyson won the WBC heavyweight title with a second-round knockout victory over Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas. But he got a reprieve earlier when he was up at the nine count, when he had actually been down for 11.7 seconds. 6, 1986-Alfonso Ratliff was knocked out in two rounds by Tyson. He had been out for some time, say 13.3 seconds. March 10, 1986-Steve Zouski was predictably counted out in the third round. He was eventually knocked out formally in the sixth round. However, the stopwatch counted him down for 10.3 seconds.
16, 1986-Jesse Ferguson got up at the count of eight. He was then counted out later in the first round.įeb. 11, 1986-David Jaco beat the count, but was down for 12.3 seconds. 13, 1985-Eddie Richardson was counted out, but he was actually on the floor 12 seconds. 25, 1985-The count was stopped on a beaten Robert Colay at eight, but he was down for 10 seconds.
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