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  • The Dog changed the title to 33 years ago today
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We were at some restaurant on the Riverwalk in SA. Weren't even paying attention until someone shouted "He knocked him down!" THEN we started paying attention. The next time Tyson went down, he stayed down.

Whole place went nuts.

It's a moment like the Challenger disaster, or 9/11, or 4th and 5. One of those unthinkable moments that you remember where you were when it happened.

  • Hook 'Em 3
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At home watching, best friend called me and one of the greatest sports moments of my early teen live. It’s was like watching the titanic sink in real time, Tyson was bigger than any sports figure I had ever encountered at that time.

  • Hook 'Em 2
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I remember seeing the scroll at the bottom of the screen on ESPN and CNN Sports.  All we saw at first was still photos.  It was a day or two before there was video available.  It was a crazy time to be alive.

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17 hours ago, Rimbo said:

We were at some restaurant on the Riverwalk in SA. Weren't even paying attention until someone shouted "He knocked him down!" THEN we started paying attention. The next time Tyson went down, he stayed down.

Whole place went nuts.

It's a moment like the Challenger disaster, or 9/11, or 4th and 5. One of those unthinkable moments that you remember where you were when it happened.

I clearly remember this not quite correctly, because Tyson was only knocked down once. 

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I remember a group of us meeting at some friend's house off of Duval. Most of us went to some party somewhere while a few of them stayed there to hang out and watch the fight.  Later that night we went back to that house and those guys were telling us Tyson lost and we didn't believe them. They even commemorated the night by scrawling "TYSON FELL" on the label of the whiskey bottle they went through. 

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4 hours ago, ConferenceRoom said:

You probably heard someone yell at Douglas getting knocked down. 

No, I just didn't remember it right. It was that Tyson fell that got our attention. Then we all payed attention... and then ten seconds later, the fight was over. 

This was a reasonably decent restaurant (I was in a tux; had just performed Prokofiev's 5th with the All State orchestra) and we were overhearing the bar area. Whole place went nuts.

It's really hard to imagine, if you weren't there, how unthinkable Tyson getting knocked out by anyone was. That it was Buster Douglas and not Holyfield was even more stunning. The Japanese were in silent shock; this was not supposed to happen. Tyson was advertised as no mortal man. It's not just the record, nearly all by knockout. It's that most of those fights never even made it to the third round.

For the US, well, we'd seen all the Rocky movies, so as amazing as it was, it wasn't beyond belief. We had fiction leading the way. But for Japan? It just couldn't happen. It wasn't supposed to happen. It wasn't possible. It wasn't what they'd paid to see. They paid to see god punish a sinner; this was heresy.

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