The former WBC world heavyweight champion was in danger of losing the sight in one eye when he faced ‘Iron Mike’ for the second time in 1996
“It seems like yesterday,” Frank Bruno says in that familiar low rumble of a voice as a tangled expression crosses his face. “That time has gone. How many years have passed?”
Bruno is remembering his second fight against Mike Tyson, in Las Vegas, in March 1996. I was there and the memory of Bruno looking confused and apprehensive as he made the long and lonely walk to the ring to defend his world heavyweight title is seared into my brain. It was hard to imagine the full extent of the emotion churning through him as he made the sign of the cross every few steps. His anxious genuflecting seemed full of shadows in his mind that stretched beyond boxing. I tell Bruno how long it has been.
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