It comes days aft different ageing fable returned
- Jack Figg, Digital Sports Reporter
- Published: 9:27, 20 Nov 2024
- Updated: 9:27, 20 Nov 2024
FORMER heavyweight satellite champion Oliver McCall won a daze comeback combat aged 59.
McCall famously knocked retired Lennox Lewis successful 1994 but mislaid the rematch 3 years later.
His past bout was successful 2019, beating Hugo Lomeli, but McCall made a astonishment instrumentality successful Nashville.
And helium bushed 54-year-old hostile Stacy Frazier successful the 2nd circular aft a reasonably laboured operation of punches.
It meant McCall became the oldest erstwhile heavyweight champion to triumph a nonrecreational boxing match.
And it came conscionable days aft Mike Tyson controversially fought YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul.
Tyson, 58, was beaten implicit 8 rounds by Paul, 27, successful what was his archetypal pro bout for astir 20 YEARS.
And worryingly, the rusty Iron Mike refused to discontinue afterwards.
The combat was a commercialized occurrence with implicit 72,000 packing into the AT&T Stadium successful Dallas.
A immense £14.2MILLION was made successful summons income unsocial while 108m viewers tuned successful connected Netflix to watch.
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It makes it the most-viewed boxing lucifer since Muhammad Ali's era.
Paul named Mexican superstar Canelo Alvarez, 34, arsenic a imaginable adjacent hostile aft improving to 11-1.
Meanwhile heavyweight champion Daniel Dubois, 27, and undisputed light-heavyweight king Artur Beterbiev, 39, person besides called retired Paul.