I don’t often do this. Just link to someone/somebody and let it go at that.

But this story and the nine-minute video that goes with it are worthy of it. (As if none of you aren’t looking at espn.com.)

In the three decades I spent covering sports, including the 23 I spent as a sports editor,  Buster Douglas defeating Mike Tyson in Tokyo in 1989 ranks with the top two or three “you’ve gotta be kidding me” moments. And everyone who has worked in newspapers knows what I mean. That moment when an “urgent” appeared on the wire from AP, with one sentence you just didn’t believe.

An aside: I can remember only one other instance, on deadline, when something so completely unexpected hit the wire. In September of 1978, when we were putting out the Sunday paper, and one of our desk guys, Gil Hulse, blurted, “My God, Lyman Bostock has been shot!” (Bostock being a star player for the California Angels who had been shot — and killed — in Gary, Ind., after a day game against the White Sox.)

My recollection is … that the fight happened just early enough to make a West Coast newspaper deadline. We had the fight on the cover, of course, but we never, ever expected Mike Tyson to lose … to anyone. And especially not to Buster Douglas.

But, as we later saw on the replays of the fight, Buster beat up Mike Tyson. It was not a fluke. Mike Tyson had bought into the invincibility of Mike Tyson even more than we had. He was physically prepared for the fight, but he was not mentally prepared for a serious challenge.

If you’re of a certain age, you remember that for a year or two Mike Tyson seemed invincible. Moreso than any fighter in our lifetimes. Far more than Muhammad Ali. Far more than any other heavyweight of the last half of the 20th century — and maybe covering the whole century. (Sorry, Joe Louis.)  Just nobody compared.

This was a guy who scared the daylights out of other professional boxers. Michael Spinks — who was world champion — was so afraid of Mike Tyson that he seemed almost grateful to go down 90 seconds into their fight and not get up.

Mike Tyson carried that aura of menace about him like no one else. It seemed as if he had been created by some evil god to do nothing but destroy people inside that squared circle. And Michael Spinks was smart enough to recognize that. When you got into the ring with Mike Tyson, you risked death. Really. He was that dangerous.

And then for Buster Douglas to beat him … when we figured on at least a decade of Mike Tyson destroying everyone … well, it was a physical shock.

It’s still a great story. Jeremy Schaap is quite right about it: It was an upset, but not a freakish one. The guy who was better-prepared … who had the perfect combination of skill and physical gifts (particularly height and reach) won the fight.

Anyway,  it was a huge story then, as now, and if you care about the spectacle that once was heavyweight boxing, go look at the video.