Author: Gareth

Born in Brooklyn, New York City on June 30, 1966, Mike Tyson was still nearly four months shy of his nineteenth birthday when he made a low-key professional boxing debut at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, New York on March 6, 1985. Nevertheless, his technical knockout of…

Born in West Ham, East London on September 2, 1965, but holding dual nationality, Lennox Lewis won a gold medal for Canada in the super heayweight weight division at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. On that occasion, he was awarded a controversial Referee Stops Contest (RSC) decision…

Franklin 'Frank' Bruno retired from professional boxing, on medical advice,on August 30, 1996, having made an unsuccessful first defence of his WBC world heavyweight title against Mike Tyson at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on March 16 that year. That third-round technical knockout was, in fact, the second defeat…

Born in Hammersmith, West London on March 23, 1972, to an Italian father and a Welsh mother, Joseph 'Joe' Calzaghe made his professional boxing debut at the National Stadium on October 1, 1998. On that occasion, he recorded a technical knockout over Paul Hanlon after 2:43 of the first round…