Mike Tyson Faces Competition from Oliver McCall
Mike Tyson, you’ve got some competition.
Days after the 58-year-old Tyson went eight rounds in a losing effort against Jake Paul this past Friday at a packed AT&T Stadium, 59-year-old Oliver McCall returned to the ring to score a knockout win at a significantly more low key event in Nashville, Tenn.
Watch footage of McCall’s win below.
Like Tyson, McCall was competing for the first time in years. Tyson’s fight with Paul was his first pro bout since 2005, while McCall was fought in his first fight since 2019 and his third fight since 2014.
Unlike Tyson, who fought an opponent in Paul that was 30 years younger than him, McCall did not deal with an absurd age gap. McCall’s win was against 54-year-old journeyman Stacy Frazier.
McCall, a longtime training partner of Tyson’s, is best known for his shocking 1994 upset of Lennox Lewis, which made him one of just two men to beat the heavyweight champion in his 76-fight career. That upset made McCall the WBC champion, though he later dropped the belt to Frank Bruno and then lost a rematch to Lewis in 1997.
Asked if he still planned to compete, McCall sounded optimistic, and when someone in the crowd shouted out Paul’s name, he was receptive to the suggestion.
“I’d knock Jake Paul out,” McCall said in his post-fight interview.
He then confused Jake with his brother Logan Paul, thinking it was Logan that knocked out NBA veteran Nate Robinson (it was actually Jake), before saying he’d like to avenge both Robinson and Tyson.
“I want to get revenge for Nate Robinson and then Mike Tyson, for what [Jake did] with Mike Tyson. That would be awesome.”
Watch the interview and the full show below.