Boxing News

BEATING THE ODDS

Steve Bunce

@BigDaddyBunce

Voice of boxing

SPENCER OLIVER was all over Riyadh last week with his microphone in hand and a smile on his chops.

Spencer is one of the miracle boys in our boxing business; a fighter who came back from the twilight to lead a normal life.

In late May of 1998, I visited Oliver and his promoter and friend Jess Harding at a country club in north London.

On May 2 of that year, in front of a devoted crowd at the Royal Albert Hall, Oliver had

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Boxing News

Boxing News3 min read
Bulldozer Espinoza
Reporters’ star ratings for main events and undercards are based on in-ring entertainment, competitiveness and whether overall expectation was met YOU would think that by being the tallest featherweight champion in the division’s history, that WBO be
Boxing News4 min read
Unstoppable
PAT BROWN heads to the Olympics next month feeling unstoppable after powering to Grand Prix goldinthe Czech Republic. Great Britain sent all six Olympians to Usti nad Labem and Brown, Delicious Orie and Charley Davison came back with golds. Orie was
Boxing News3 min read
In A Great Place
Sunny Edwards Former IBF flyweight champion I’VE been here over a week. I settled in nicely. I came back to the same gym I was based at last time for the 'Bam' Rodriguez fight, the JL Junior Lopez Boxing Academy, here in Glendale, Arizona. I really l

Related Books & Audiobooks