James ‘Buster’ Douglas was a professional boxer from Columbus, Ohio. He won the WBC, WBA, and IBF world heavyweight titles in 1990. His victory over Mike Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Douglas retired from boxing in 1999 after eight months as champion. He died in a car accident in 2009.
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James ‘Buster’ Douglas was a professional boxer from Columbus, Ohio. He won the WBC, WBA, and IBF world heavyweight titles in 1990. His victory over Mike Tyson is regarded as one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Douglas retired from boxing in 1999 after eight months as champion. He was known as the ‘Desert Fox’ because of a misinterpreted encyclopedia entry regarding Douglas MacArthur and Erwin Rommel. Douglas is the son of professional boxer William ‘Dynamite’ Douglas. He is in the Coffeyville Community College Men’s Basketball Hall of Fame. He played basketball at Sinclair Community College from 1979 to 1980 in Dayton, Ohio, before attending Mercyhurst University on a basketball scholarship. He moved back to Columbus to focus on boxing. Douglas made his debut on May 31, 1981, and defeated Dan O’Malley in a four-round bout. In 1986 Douglas fought only three times defeating former champion Greg Page and fringe contender David Jaco in two of the fights. This earned him a shot at the International Boxing Federation championship that Michael Spinks was stripped of for refusing to defend it. In his last fight of 1983, Douglas was dominating opponent Mike White, but White knocked him out in the ninth round. On November 9, 1989, Douglas fought heavyweight contender Trevor Berbick in Las Vegas. He followed that up with a unanimous decision over future heavyweight champion Oliver McCall. In 1996, Douglas engaged in a series of comeback fights between 1996 and 1999 before retiring a second and final time.
He has a son, James Douglas Jr, who is a professional boxing coach and a former professional boxer who competed between 1981 and 1999. He also has a daughter, Jennifer Douglas, who competed in professional boxing between 2001 and 2003. Douglas has two sons, James ‘Buster’ Douglas III and James “Buster Jr” Douglas, both of whom are also professional boxers. Douglas won the world heavyweight title in 1990 after defeating Mike Tyson in the 10th round to win the title. He reigned as world heavyweight champion for eight months until he was defeated by Evander Holyfield in his only title defense. He retired shortly after the fight, but continued to work as a boxing trainer until his death in 2007. He died in a car accident in 2009. He had been training with his father, William ‘DynamITE’ Douglas, in Columbus,Ohio. He used to run a gym at the Blackburn Recreation Center near Downtown Columbus, and subsequently introduced young James to boxing. James started a business from scratch from scratch and handpicked himself with his new team for his new fights. He went on to fight four consecutive fights and won him four consecutive and he went to fight him four times in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, and 1996. Douglas fought David Bey in the second round to hand him his first defeat. He fought Steffen Tangstad to a draw on October 16, 1982.
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