On Friday night, 58-year-old ring legend Mike Tyson set a world record for the oldest former heavyweight world champion to fight in a sanctioned professional fight. Iron Mike broke the 93-year-old record set by former heavyweight champion Jack Johnson, who fought in a sanctioned fight at 53 years of age on April 27, 1931.
Tyson’s new record will last exactly 4 days.
This Tuesday night, November 19, 59-year-old former WBC heavywelght champion Oliver “The Atomic Bull” McCall (59-14, 38 KOs) takes on Stacy Frazier (16-22, 15 KOs) in an officially sanctioned four round bout at the Troubadour Theater in Nashville Tennessee. The McCall-Frazier fight, presented on promoter Jimmy Adams’ CountryBox series, will stream on Triller TV.
Frazier is like 54-55, himself. McCall’s probably going to win. Never a champion and not THAT old, but Ike Ibeabuchi is also fighting in a few weeks.
Most people forget McCall knocked out Lennox Lewis.
– 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………..
I meant Ike was never champion.
Ike ibeabuchi. 4 real or just playin?
Yes, Ibeabuchi is fighting a 47 year old Egyptian guy in Nigeria! He’s been trying to come for 10 years. I can’t imagine he’ll be very successful. What made him so unique was his ability to move so well and his hand speed, both tend not improve with age and a 25 year ring absence. I think he would have battled it out with Lennox Lewis, the Klitsko’s, and David Haye for heavyweight supremacy from 1999-2010 if he wasn’t such a nut job. Instead we got John Ruiz! Even before going to prison in 1999, he was persona non grata in the boxing world. After KO’ng Chris Byrd, he became way too arrogant and unreasonable for promoters to deal with. There were several incidents of assaulting girlfriends, sparring partners, and probably anyone who looked at him wrong, and his team was constantly trying to sweep it under the rug.
all people who fight for money aren’t all there at their best…
You are definitely in the know. Had no idea Ike was fighting. What a huge, what if had be been able to continue his career in his prime.
Oliver was champion
Of course he was, I was talking about Ike. First two sentences about McCall’s fight, third about Ike’s.
Question: would the powers at be allow a 27 year old equivalent of Jake Paul but black (roids and all) with decent boxing pedigree (amateur ability) to humiliate a 60 year old former white ring legend? I heard but did not see it, thank goodness, that they had Tyson’s whole ass out on the jumbo screen, and he was biting on his glove during the right, this is called “Buck Breaking”. Unbelievable!
DMV, I know you must think there was some sort of conspiracy, but rest assured, nearly every single White person I know wanted to see Tyson KO Jake Paul. Period!
Ditto. There should be a go-fund-me for the 1st person that does knock out Jake Paul.
DMV-I absolutely think this fight would happen in your reverse scenario. There really are no 60 year old white, retired ring legends with the magnetism and drawing power of Mike Tyson. I find it curious that you’re being deliberately inaccurate and calling Tyson 60. Not just you, a lot of people. Why not state his actual age of 58? I understand it bolsters your argument, but it shows your willingness to bend the truth`. When this fight was first announced, a lot of people were posting on here, including me, that Tyson was too old. You said he wasn’t and he aged differently than the rest of us. You gave several examples of mostly black athletes(you did mention Tom Brady) including Satchel Page, who achieved athletically at an advanced age. You said nothing at the time about this being “Buck Breaking”. Do you think Jake Pauls team, who is pretty much all black, feel this was Buck Breaking? Does Tyson and his 20 million dollar payday think this was “Buck Breaking”? He even said he might want to fight Logan Paul next! I think he was talking out of his ass at the time, but those are the words of somebody who was manipulated into taking this fight. Everybody wanted to see Jake Paul get crushed! This fight happened because nobody in the history of the sport has the drawing power of Mike Tyson. Why Jake Paul got twice as much as Tyson is a different story.
Rest assured Tyson is not a victim and was aware he and Paul would be making tons of money off of fans nostalgia and WWE level acting. From what I’ve been seeing, white guys, Mexican guys, you name it were Mike Tyson fans rooting for him to knock Paul out. Now if you’re talking Joe Louis, post WWII and being “humiliated” exploited, etc after serving the country with such loyalty that is a different story. Tyson, nah he knew what he was signing up for.
DMV is simply delusional as I have been saying for the past year or so. You guys are just catching on???
“Question: would the powers at be allow a 27 year old equivalent of Jake Paul but black (roids and all) with decent boxing pedigree (amateur ability) to humiliate a 60 year old former white ring legend?”
– Why is it always about race with you??
McCall was never world champion, just an alphabet belt keeper.
Beating Lennox Lewis by 2nd round KO does NOT make you a world champion. The fact is it did and your comment is that of an ignoramus!! Another question” Was McCall a good world champion? Now you may have a point.
Older former heavyweight champion*. Former WBC super lightweight champion Saoul Mamby fought at the age of 60 in 2008, losing a decision to a fighter with a 6-27 record named Anthony Osbourne.
Wrong! The oldest former world champion to ever fight is Saoul Mamby, who lost a ten round decision at the age of 61!!! Whomever the moderator is needs to issue a retraction in this headline.
Actually, Mamby was 60. His bout with Anthony Osbourne took place about three months before Mamby turned 61.
It doesn’t say, but I gather they meant oldest heavyweight champion to return to the ring. You’re right, it just says champion.
Shouldn’t count anyway 2 min rds 14 ounce gloves
I knew a guy in his mid to late 50’s who trained and competed as an amateur. He trained everyday, was ripped (in that old man way) , and was really serious about it. He was in that White collar/Masters division type circuit. I saw him fight an exhibition smoker against a much younger guy. Of course he’s going to be a lot slower and less agile, that’s a given at his age, but I can’t stress enough how slow he actually was. It was like watching an already slow guy fighting in slow motion. Props to him for getting in the ring, but I don’t think he understood how bad he looked. To hear him talk, you would think “ok, he could hang and bang with the best of them” but noooo! The mind plays tricks on you. I am 54 years old and often think I would like to get back in the ring and I think I can. Then I ask myself “Am I just as delusional as everybody and would look absolutely ridiculous if I did?”
one of 2 who knocked out Lennox. McCall is a beast when right in da head..
If Ike and McCall were bigger names Paul might go after them next..lol. That said Paul likes fighting older MMA guys. I can think of an older MMA guy who is 0-2 in boxing. Lets see Paul challenge Ngannou!
Everyone is dissing Paul yet we all had a good idea what was gonna happen! Tyson was in on it also, he threw almost no punches with ” bad intentions” this fight was as scripted as WWE!
Tyson threw no punches with “bad intentions” because his legs are gone. I bet Tyson can no longer do any roadwork, maybe just light treadmill. Also, age & decades of being a pothead has eroded his testosterone level so much so, that his current nickname should be changed from “Iron Mike” to “Mellow Mike.”