Again in November, former WBC heavyweight champ Oliver McCall made a profitable return to the ring – at age 59. McCall stopped Stacy Frazier in Nashville, and is doing so he made a bit of boxing historical past, this by turning into the oldest former heavyweight champion to win a sanctioned bout. McCall said after the win that noticed him go 60-14(39) that he could be persevering with his comeback quickly and that he could be lighter in weight and in higher form for the following one.
Nicely, the following one on this wholly ludicrous comeback will happen on January 21. As soon as once more to be combating in Nashville, McCall is down on invaluable web site BoxRec as dealing with Gary Cobia of Clearfield, Utah, who’s at present simply 3-4(1) as a professional, with him having been stopped 3 times. McCall, who will flip 60 in April, will little question be trying to go 2-0 with 2 KO’s later this month. How far “The Atomic Bull’s” comeback can presumably go, we don’t know, however McCall is an effective dude and it’s hoped he CAN really do one thing at his superior age.
It truly is mad that McCall continues to be combating at virtually 60, however the least we are able to do is pull for him as he goes about his unlikely quest. McCall – who had his professional debut approach again in November of 1985, so virtually forty lengthy years in the past – ought to have little bother with Cobia. Often known as “The Gentleman,” Cobia is 52 years of age and he final boxed virtually a full decade in the past, this in the summertime of 2015. And Cobia was knocked out by a man named Jesse West.
McCall ought to have the ability to turn out to be the fourth man to halt Cobia on Tuesday, January twenty first. McCall, who has famously by no means as soon as been knocked to the canvas, his chin really a legendary one, says he’ll preserve busy, get in higher and higher bodily form, and that he’ll win a giant battle earlier than he’s lastly executed.
Once more, extra energy to McCall. Let’s hope this loopy comeback has a contented ending!
