{"id":789964,"date":"2026-10-02T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789964\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T19:58:08","slug":"heavyweight-champion-who-beat-larry-holmes-and-lennox-lewis-says-he-can-win-a-title-again-at-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/789964\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavyweight champion who beat Larry Holmes and Lennox Lewis says he can win a title again at 61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/boxer\/lennox-lewis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lennox Lewis<\/a> hung up the gloves over two decades ago, but now one of just two men to have defeated \u2018The Lion\u2019 is planning on making an impression in the current heavyweight scene, at the age of 61 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis suffered a shock defeat to Oliver McCall back in 1994 when attempting to make a fourth defence of the WBC heavyweight world title, after being elevated into the position of world champion in late 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Although, <a href=\"https:\/\/boxrec.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Oliver_McCall_vs._Larry_Holmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">McCall would only make one defence himself, overcoming the legendary Larry Holmes<\/a> before losing out to Frank Bruno at Wembley Stadium. Then, 18 months later, McCall and Lewis rematched for the vacant WBC title, but \u2018The Atomic Bull\u2019 came home empty-handed after a <a href=\"https:\/\/boxingnewsonline.net\/features\/on-this-day-oliver-mccall-suffers-mental-breakdown-during-rematch-with-lennox-lewis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bizarre fifth-round stoppage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That night remains as McCall\u2019s solitary defeat inside of the distance despite accumulating 14 losses in his prolonged career and the granite-chined heavyweight veteran is now set for a fourth fight in two years, as he gears up to take on former heavyweight boogeyman, Ike Ibeabuchi, in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The combined age of the fighters in that bout will be a staggering 114 years old, but McCall believes that he will display that his remaining ability is still enough to beat today\u2019s heavyweight champions, as per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldboxingnews.com\/former-heavyweight-champion-61-hunts-kos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Boxing News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would love to fight and distribute my authentic abilities now at this age, at 61, that I\u2019m still credible, and I can whoop heavyweight fighters,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna show everybody, the whole world, but I\u2019m originally from Chicago, Illinois, that I\u2019m capable and able to knock out and beat contenders as well as former champions and champions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCall-Ibeabuchi is set to take place on Thursday, November 26, but will only go ahead if 12,500 pay-per-views are pre-purchased by the end of the October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lennox Lewis hung up the gloves over two decades ago, but now one of just two men to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2560,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-789964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}