The Boxing History Blog

Hi Here is a free chapter from the book Nigel Benn Vs Chris Eubank: Who’s Fooloing Who?, which is available on Amazon, Kobo, Google Play, and Barnes & Noble:  https://linktr.ee/leroy_fight_writer All the best fight fans Lea  Declaration of War  “He (Chris Eubank) was the first person to come out and slag me off, and so he lit the fuse – he lit the fuse good.” – Nigel Benn.  “For me it was never a matter of hate. This was an individual who I needed to win against in order to, well, get out of a maisonette flat and get into a house.” – Chris Eubank. Chris Eubank made the second defence of his WBC International middleweight title at Brighton’s Conference Centre against Birmingham’s Kid Milo on 5th September. Milo, born Winston Walters, started his paid career in April 1985, and by the time he challenged Eubank, he had amassed a record of 13-3-1 (7 KOs).         Milo threw himself at the champion from the start as Eubank was...

Mike McCallum One of the most complete ring technicians of the modern era, Mike McCallum first came to prominence in the 1978 Commonwealth Games, held in his home country, picking up the gold medal in the welterweight division.  Born in Kingston, Jamaica on 07th December 1956, he left his native country to turn professional in the United States as a light-middleweight in January 1981. He stopped the American Rigoberto Lopez in the fourth round, going 12-0 before fighting in his home country in his thirteenth contest against Gilberto Almonte. Unfortunately for the Kingston crowd they only got to see 66 seconds of their man in action, issuing a sixth straight and final stoppage defeat on the Dominican's ledger. It would be Kevin Perry who stopped McCallum's stoppage spree, lasting the full ten rounds in front of the Madison Square Garden crowd in the Jamaican's fifteenth pro outing in June 1982.  Two fights later he faced the biggest name of his career to date in the guise of...