Word: tysons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's the way it went, as the lightly regarded James ("Buster") Douglas, 29, knocked out Mike Tyson, 23, in Tokyo last week, ending the champ's four- year reign. The papers called it "the biggest upset in boxing history," but they could just as easily have said cinema history: a story like this happens only in the movies. To be exact, it happens only in Rocky movies. Douglas' shocking victory over the previously undefeated annihilator provided all the improbable thrills of a Stallone fist film. And more. Rocky never got the benefit of a long count, so that...
...Rocky never ran into Don King, the Boss Greed of boxing promoters. King's electrified hair stood on end when he realized that Tyson's match with top contender Evander Holyfield, a huge payday slated for June, would now be a fight between two nonchamps. King soon came to his senses. He proposed a Tyson-Douglas rematch, with Holyfield to meet the winner and ageless challenger George Foreman lurking like a threat behind Holyfield. By midweek the boxing commissions had dropped their charade and acknowledged what every viewer knew: Douglas had won the fight. The underdog was the champ...
...stuck with a hero's biography. His father Bill was a sparky middleweight who funneled his dreams into young Buster. Another inspirer, Buster's manager John Johnson, helped steer his fighter through recent family tragedies -- especially the death of his mother Lula last month -- and toward a bout with Tyson. Boxing savants expected it to be one more anonymous sacrifice to the Kong of sport. But Douglas had strength, stamina and grace. And he lacked what other Tyson victims have brought into the ring: fear of an "Iron Mike" mugging...
...prince of pugilism, Mike Tyson, was 23 years old and until that fateful night had enjoyed a stranglehold on his opposition. Soft-drink manufacturers coveted his endorsement and no right-minded sports fan would dare forecast an end to his reign. But after 10 rounds of padded combat, the Popeye of pop culture had fallen. The thud was heard round the world, or at least in that not-insignificant fraction which has heard of Mike Tyson...
...named the magazine's Sportsman of the Millenium in a close vote over Isaac Newton, whose theory of gravity was influential in understanding why hockey pucks and gymnasts do not fly off into the stratosphere. A teary Newton will settle for Time's Man of the Millenium. A jealous Tyson will beat up both of them...