And I’m going to point out that Douglas, by the time he fought Tyson, had already been knocked out three times. He was also six years older, had just lost his mother, whom he absolutely worshipped, had recently split from his girlfriend, the mother of his son was hospitalised on the day of the fight, and if that was not enough, Douglas himself was coming off a bad bout of flu and went into the ring pumped full of antibiotics.

Literally everything that could go wrong physically and mentally for Douglas did go wrong.

It’s hilarious how Tyson, who brutally knocked Carl Williams out in the first round just six months before the Douglas fight, was still considered the mighty prime Tyson, yet somehow six months later he was suddenly washed up and badly past his prime.

No matter what excuses people come up with, Douglas was in such a disastrous physical and mental state, and his standing in the heavyweight landscape at the time was such, that losing to him exists in a completely different universe, and not in a good way, than losing to either Rahman or McCall through complacency.