It was a darn good thing for Oliver McCall he wasn’t fighting the Larry Holmes who defeated Ken Norton to win the WBC heavyweight championship. That version of Holmes, the … Read more
And Oliver McCall is STILL fighting. A quarter of a century ago today, September 24, 1994, a big heavyweight upset took place, as Lennox Lewis, still a relatively new champion, … Read more
Why, oh why is 54 year old Oliver McCall still fighting? It’s a basic question and though many fans will claim the answer is, the former WBC heavyweight ruler needs … Read more
30 year old heavyweight Grover Young, a man who started his pro career down a few weight divisions and “worked my way up to heavyweight ‘cos there were no good … Read more
Heavyweight great Lennox Lewis always did say boxing is “like a drug,” with fighters always wanting “just one more” – Lewis himself was able to walk away on top, his … Read more
Former WBC heavyweight champ Oliver McCall seems hell-bent on fighting on for as long as he possibly can – Dan Rafael of ESPN has reported how McCall, now aged 54, … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPETfi0Zx8 Tomorrow, February 7th, marks the 22nd anniversary of one of the oddest, weirdest world heavyweight title fights in history: the rematch between Lennox Lewis and Oliver McCall. Fans who … Read more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DPETfi0Zx8 Almost a quarter of a century ago today, September 24, 1994, a big heavyweight upset took place at Wembley, the scene of so many great nights for British boxers. … Read more
In a surprising development (or maybe not so much surprising seeing how so many veteran/aged fighters decide to box on when at an advanced age more and more these days) … Read more
It was February 7, 1997 and heavyweights Lennox Lewis and Oliver McCall met in Las Vegas to both decide the vacant WBC title and to box a rematch. Lewis, who had been shocked by McCall in September of 1994, being bowled over in the 2nd-round, had revenge uppermost on his mind. McCall? To this day nobody really knows what the state of his mind truly was.
What followed twenty years ago today ranks as one of the craziest, weirdest and most disturbing of all heavyweight title fights.
