buster had been paid $30,000,000 dollars ,he wasn't hungry any more
Although it has happened before it probably will never happen, but the holding up a fighter's purse when controversial events happen is hard to prove. Therefore, Douglas gets caught throwing an outside uppercut and he lies there wiping his nose, rather than making a valid effort to rise. Louis, Ali, Marciano against Joe Walcott, all got up as fast as the count of 3 to continue. Now you know the rest of the story.
Only Buster knows what happened But I believe he could have gotten up. Buster came into this fight to lose he was way over weight and his mother had just died before the Tyson fight . Buster did not care about being champion he did what he wanted to do .
He was way out of shape and didn't train too much for that fight. He wanted out. Bad stamina. Plus his right uppercut punch was not effective on Holyfield's style. His R uppercut is only good against Tyson's style.
same thing happend when tyson Ko'd him i seen buster on the screen doing the same thing on the ground when he got kod by evander looked at his glove etc but knowning he got tyson on the run he got up and did what he had to do. theirs a clip on youtube where he talks about giving up vs tyson but chose not to
do you think when Holyfield knocked him out that he could have got up but probably felt it wasn't worth it?