February 24 2007

THERE ARE DAYS IN THIS BUSINESS THAT YOU NEVER FORGET. 21 YEARS AGO I
WORKED THE CTV NATIONAL TELECAST OF THE CANADIAN AMATEUR BOXING CHAMPIONSHIPS FROM TORONTO. ON THAT NIGHT THREE VERY PROMISING YOUNGSTERS BROKE THROUGH TO WIN NATIONAL TITLES; WILLI DEWIT FROM ALBERTA..SEAN O'SULLIVAN FROM TORONTO..AND FROM KITCHENER A HEAVYWEIGHT NAMED LENNOX LEWIS. DEWIT AND O'SULLIVAN HAD SOME SUCCESS AS PROS....LEWIS WENT ON TO BECOME THE DOMINANT BOXER OF HIS GENERATION AND THEN RETIRED WITH ONLY 2 LOSSES IN 44 BOUTS. HIS LAST VICTORY CAME IN 2004 AGAINST VITALI KLITSCHKO.

LAST WEEK KLITSCHKO ANNOUNCED HE IS COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT. TODAY LEWIS ANNOUNCED HE'S ALSO COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT AT AGE 41 SO HE CAN FIGHT KLITSCHKO AGAIN.

CONSIDERING THE STATE OF THE THE HEAVYWEIGHT DIVISION RIGHT NOW....IT COULD BE THE FIGHT OF THE YEAR.

BUT CONSIDER THESE DEVELOPMENTS...TOMMY MORRISON WAS BACK IN THE RING THIS WEEK. MORRISON IS BEST KNOWN FOR BEING JOHN WAYNE'S NEPHEW BEFORE HE WAS DIAGNOSED HIV POSITIVE AND WAS FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM BOXING AN THE EVE OF A FIGHT WITH MIKE TYSON. WELL, IN WEST VIRGINIA IF YOU CAN CLIMB THROUGH THE RING ROPES WITHOUT FALLING DOWN, YOU CAN FIGHT.

MORRISON FOUGHT ON A CARD WITH JOE MESI OF BUFFALO NEW YORK. YOU MIGHT REMEMBER MESI...HE FOUGHT STEPHANE TESSIER IN MONTREAL IN 2006 DESPITE A BRAIN ANEURISM. THEY BOTH LIVED ..AND THEY BOTH WON THEIR FIGHTS.

AND THEN THERE'S ROCKY BALBOA. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS..SYLVESTER STALONE STOPPED BY AUSTRALIAN CUSTOMS CARRYING PROHIBITED SUBSTANCES. READ:
STEROIDS. WHERE HAVE YOU GONE JOE FRAZIER. THE HECK WITH IT...AT THIS
POINT I'LL TAKE GEORGE CHUVALO.