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In the pantheon of sporting legends, there exists a story so potent, so ripe with David and Goliath undertones that it could stir

the most dormant of spirits.

It's a tale set in a time when Mike Tyson was the unconquerable titan of boxing.

He casted a long shadow of fear across the squared circle.

Each punch Tyson threw was like a nuclear missile, one that could drop even the most

indomitable giant face down on the canvas. At the time of this story that I will tell you here,

Iron Mike Tyson had amassed a perfect 37 straight victories, every victory being more

ferocious than the last, a force so terrifying, many believed he was invincible. He had never once been beaten.

He was the undefeated, undisputed heavyweight champion of the world. This story, however, isn't

about Tyson's victories. It's about another man who dared step into the ring to face him,

a 42 to one underdog. Someone by the fight commentator's own words was expected to be

quote, annihilated in 90 seconds or less, end quote, just as Tyson had done to the very last

opponent that he had faced. But this man was steeled by a personal purpose no one knew about.

His name was Buster Douglas.

The world viewed the match between Tyson and Douglas as nothing more than a preamble,

a mere exhibition to whet the appetite of fight fans for the main course,

Mike Tyson versus Evander Holafield.

Douglas was dismissed as a footnote,

a simple warm-up act before the main event.

Yet fate has a way of scripting stories far more compelling than any promoter could even conceive.

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