You got a GPS?”įorty-five minutes later Darryl was behind the fence of Tyson’s gated community home in a white Range Rover while I gave my name - well, Peter’s name - to a security guard. I took another deep breath as my pulsed raced. “Well, I guess we’ll just have to do that interview at the house in Henderson. I found out later that Darryl had gotten his job as Tyson’s assistant after washing his car and basically laying siege to Tyson until he was given a permanent job. “I have to fly back home tonight - Boston’s a long way - so if there’s anyway we could do this thing today, like soon -” For some reason the staff has no idea about you guys showing up today either.” You guys weren’t in the conference room so I thought I’d check in. I took a deep breath and made one last, sweaty phone call to Darryl. She also behaved as though this kind of thing happened with amusing regularity.
The woman at the Luxor’s front desk courteously informed me they had never heard of me or been contacted by any representative of Tyson to arrange anything. I maxed out the last of my credit cards, flew to Vegas and showed up at the prescribed time. After 139 calls, Darryl had told me to meet him and Tyson the following day at The Luxor hotel in Las Vegas, where they’d reserved the conference room for our interview. Both Darryl and Tyson mistook me for a writer then working on Roach’s biography, a project that was eventually abandoned.Īt the time I met Tyson, as usual, his life resembled a joyride on the Titanic. And then, finally, a fortunate case of mistaken identity got me inside. All it had taken to walk through Tyson’s front door was 140 phone calls to his assistant Darryl - 99 percent of which lasted five seconds and ended with a promise to call back that never came.
#BUSTER DOUGLAS MIKE TYSON NOW PROFESSIONAL#
I hadn’t published a word in my life and had no professional business or official justification to be there. If you’re born in America you get a front seat.”Īfter legendary boxing trainer Freddie Roach gave me Mike Tyson’s phone number at his Wild Card gym in Los Angeles in the spring of 2010, he giggled “You’ll never fucking get in there, kid.” But a short time later, on Easter Sunday, I entered Tyson’s Henderson, Nevada home through a thick cloud of marijuana smoke and met him for the first time. He has also worked as an actor, and his acting credits include ‘The Top 5 Reasons You Can’t Blame…’, ‘Pluto’s Plight,’ and ‘From Gettysburg to Baghdad.’ He has appeared in the video game called ‘James ‘Buster’ Douglas Knockout Boxing.’ Douglas was a character in the video game ‘Final Blow’.“When you’re born into this world, you’re given a ticket to the freak show. He has successfully held the Undisputed World Championship by defeating Mike Tyson. In his career, he has boxed with several top boxers of the world. Net Worth & Salary of Buster Douglas in 2023 Buster Douglas Net WorthĪs of October 2023, The estimated net worth of Buster Douglas is more than $20 million. He was honored by the Ohio State University to dot the “i.” He has been named in the Men’s Basketball Hall of Fame of Coffeyville Community College. Awards & Achievementsīuster Douglas’s most significant career achievement is to be the Undisputed World Champion by upsetting legendary boxer, Mike Tyson. He retired from professional boxing in 1999 with a career record of 38 wins and six losses.
In the 1990s, he almost died from a diabetic coma. He lost the title to Evander Holyfield after eight months. Later, he made the biggest upset by defeating Tyson. The winner of the match will become the undisputed world champion and will also book a fight with the undefeated Evander Holyfield. In 1990, he boxed against Mike Tyson in Tokyo Dome, Tokyo. Before this, he defeated Greg Page, who was a former champion. In February 1989, Buster Douglas defeated Canada’s Trevor Berbick. He then had wins over Randall Cobb and Dion Simpson. After having a continuous winning streak of thirteen matches, Douglas witnessed the second loss of his career against Mike White in 1983.
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