Former heavyweight champion Oliver McCall returned to the professional ring at the age of 59. This happened a few days after the defeat of 58-year-old Mike Tyson to 27-year-old boxing blogger Jake Paul.
However, unlike Iron Mike, his 59-year-old countryman made his comeback even more spectacular, as he scored a knockout victory over 54-year-old Stacy Frazier at a boxing night in Nashville.
McCall makes a triumphant return to the ring at 59
The offender of Lennox Lewis, whom he knocked out in 1994 to become the WBC heavyweight champion, also scored a knockout victory in his fight against Frazier.
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His opponent McCall knocked out in the second round. Before that, Fraser was knocked down twice.
This victory was quite spectacular, but users on social networks are alarmed by the trend of ring veterans returning to the big sport.
— What the hell is happening to sports? — wrote one of the users, reacting to the fight between Tyson and Paul.
After McCall's fight, another one noted that this kind of thing needs to stop. There were also comments that this was making boxing miserable.
At the same time, some users took it with humor, that Jake Paul should now box the winner of the McCall vs. Frazier fight.
Oliver McCall is considered one of the strongest boxers in the 1990s in the heavyweight division. In 1994, he sensationally knocked out Lennox Lewis, receiving the WBC belt.
Three years later, in a rematch between the boxers, Lewis won an early victory after McCall refused to defend himself in the fourth round and began to cry. The referee stopped the fight. McCall's last fight in the ring was in May 2019.
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