[CFoam]

Just two months after getting dropped three times by David Izon en route to a fifteen round decision loss, Buster Douglas, reclaimed his title from Izon with a fifteen round split decision win in Atlantic City.

The challenger and former champ came out strong, dominating the first five rounds. Living up to his nickname, he busted up the champion's face, partially closing his right eye and making blood flow from Izon's mouth and nose.

Despite Douglas' camp's claims that their man was in great condition, he started to fade in the middle rounds, allowing Izon to mount a strong comeback.

Just when it seemed Izon was about to go ahead on the unofficial scorecards, Douglas dropped the champ with a picture perfect right cross in the twelfth round. Izon barely beat the count and was floored again with a combination.

The final three rounds were a war as both men realized the championship of the world, may hang in the balance.

The final scores were 145-139 Douglas, 143-142, Izon and 144-143 Douglas. This ringside observer had it 143-140 Douglas.

Douglas has his work cut out for him as #1 contender Jack Johnson has been waiting paitently in the wings.

[chaleyit]

Looks like Douglas can kiss it goodbye with Jack Johnson waiting to fight him. Depending upon what stage of their careers they are in, Johnson should win easily. Keep it coming

Chaley

[CFoam]

I always use fighters in their prime, so yes, Johnson should easily dispatch of Douglas. Of course that's what everyone thought about Tyson in 1990!

I haven't had too many huge upsets with TF2001. Although when I used to play Title Bout, Paulino Uzcudan twice knocked out Joe Frazier. Go figure.

[pproia]

I think I had the original Title Bout from 1980 or so... Still have it (and a later update).

The biggest upset I ever had was Tommy Farr beating Jack Dempsey. It went all 15 rounds, and Dempsey could never win rounds outright. It always seemed like Dempsey was missing a ton of punches and only winning the scoring of a round by scores like 13 - 8 or 10 - 6. Farr kept getting judges breaks in the early rounds, and when it was over he was the new champion.

At the time, I had set up my own sort of "league" for heavyweights and a system for fighters to age after 15 years, 20 years, and 25 years. Fighters were active in the league the years they were active in real life. I started in about 1890 (Peter Jackson was the first champ), and got to about - oh - 1945 or so before I gave it up. Tunney could never beat Dempsey (one draw though), and was only champ for a short period when he beat Farr the next year.

Champs could "select" an easy defense in the top ten as the first fight of the year, other fighters moved around based on the whim of the promotor (me) - though it was based on wins and losses from the previous year. The second championship fight was against the mandatory #1 (who had to defend his slot, too), and the final championship fight came out of an eight man tournament at the end of the year.

Finally, in the first year of activity, new fighters got to take on six wimps in four or six round fights (I created wimp cards of varying wimpiness), and in the second year four more against "sorta wimps" (eight rounds) before trying to break in the rankings. Rankings were as full as there were available fighters in a given year. I can't remember a wimp or sorta wimp beating any fighter of significance (though Jess Willard got off the floor to win one against a wimp in the 6th round, and Primo Carnera got beat by a sorta wimp in an eight round fight).

When the new game comes out, I hope to start over since I have a larger collection of information about fighters outside of the top ten for a number of years...