When Mexican hero Julio Cesar Chavez went 89-0 against Andy Holligan
Andy Holligan loses to Julio Cesar Chavez, Norris is stunned by Brown and I’m floored by the mind-bending conditions, recalls Steve Bunce
AT a bullring in Mexico in the winter of 1993 the great Robbie Davies was at ringside wearing his Commonwealth Games blazer. Backstage, in a cold room used by the apprentice matadors, Andy Holligan was getting ready for the fight of his life against the hero of all Mexico, Julio Cesar Chavez, for the WBC light-welterweight title. There was no need for bookies.
On the night, as he walked to the ring, the fans were clustered in the cheapest seats – not seats, just concrete slabs – around fires burning in metal drums. I could see the high flames whenever anybody spat a mouth full of beer into the barrels. It was a vision of hell from my safe ringside seat, but Holligan had a serious go and knew exactly what he had signed for. “I’m not stupid, I’m fighting a living lege
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The lost years of Michael Nunn
Michael Nunn spent 16 years in prison for his part in a $200 drug deal and now he’s trying to make the most of the time he has left, writes Chris Walker
THERE is no bitterness in Michael Nunn. He’s a free man after spending 16 long years in various American prisons. Caught buying cocaine for $200 from an undercover agent at a time when Lennox Lewis was still the world heavyweight champion, his sentence totalled only two years less than his entire boxing career. Nunn, to his credit, blames no one but himself.
“My mistakes fall only on me so I deserved my punishment,” states Nunn.