This Tuesday night at The Troubadour in Nashville, Tennessee, former WBC heavyweight champion Oliver McCall is set to return to action as he takes on veteran Stacy Frazier in a bout scheduled for four-rounds. At 59 years old, McCall will set the record for being the oldest former heavyweight champion to compete in a sanctioned fight. The record was set just four days earlier by former undisputed champion Mike Tyson when he took on Jake Paul in Arlington, Texas.
McCall, 59-14 with 38 knockouts knows that staying active over the last 19 years will separate his performance on Tuesday night from what Tyson looked like on Friday.
“I am ready. I have been training down here in Nashville for a few weeks, but I am always in shape. This will be a lot different then what fans saw on Friday. I think being active has a great deal to do with it. The only reason that I have not fought in five years was the pandemic and a few things falling through. If you look at my record, since 2005, I have fought 25 times and have been 19-6 with wins over quality fighters and have won various regional titles.”
McCall is fighting with no financial motivation and he sees that the end of fighting days are near, and is already plotting his post-retirement plans.
“I want to do this for another year. That will make it 40 years as a professional boxer. Then I want to train and get into the management end of things. I want to give back and help the next generation of fighters try to become world champions. I came down here to Nashville and hooked up with the manager who brought me to the title in (Country Box) promoter Jimmy Adams. I am learning a lot about that end of the sport, and I love the fighters down here plus everything that is going on with Country Box.”
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Being in shape means physically and mentally in shape!!!
Right, no 59 year old is fighting shape.
– Back in the day, I was trying to get the wife into Boxing.
– The fight that we watched together was McCall / Lennox Lewis 2, in Feb of 1997, when McCall had his famous mental breakdown in the ring and Mills Lane disqualified McCall for crying………..
Gary I remember, still LL wasn’t able to finish McCall. Imo one of the heavyweight with the strongest chins of all time.
Thomas, EASILY. He’s one of the only heavyweights I can say I never saw really hurt.
That was hard to watch. Also, it is probably the worst fight you could have showed as an introduction haha. Aside from the physical brutality, you’re watching a man mentally implode in the ring.
Someone else said it though. Easily one of the most durable heavyweights of all time. I never saw the guy really hurt.
McCall vs Tyson
Easy win for McCall
Yeah I mean especially considering they sparred for years too. Oliver’s fighting in real fights with real rules and still winning. Mike clearly can’t do that at this point.
OMG! McCall still boxing??? The former sparring partner of Mike Tyson. After that fight he’s not gonna “fight” Tyson in another circus fight, right?
Might as well have all of the old timers come back and face off. Previous to the Jake Paul fight Tyson vs Tua would still gotten my attention.
Talk about a guy who’s built and wired differently, it’s Oliver McCall. The man is nails! Sparring with Mike Tyson, years of drug abuse and mental instability, and a 40 year boxing career fighting and even beating some of the best of the best can not stop him. I don’t know what he sounds like now, but I heard him speak about 10 years ago and he sounded like he had all his marbles. No slurring or that faraway gaze that so many ex fighters, or in his case, veteran fighters have.