Does anyone remember Michael Grant? Why was the media hyping him up so much?

American that had a few good wins, was trained by Richard Steele (if I remember correctly). I think he was hyped because ppl was hoping he could bring back the titles to USA but Lewis showed it was levels between them and then he was fast forgotten.

I loved that fight btw, Lewis didn’t hold back or played it safe, LL came to prove something and he did.

 

No disrespect to American fans but the American boxing writers and fight media tend to hype up flast big American heavyweights with no real proof that those fighters are legit, they jump the gun for some reason, Grant didn`t loom like anything special before Lewis exposed him but he was big and merican fans were thirsty for a new American heavyweight champ.

 

He was 6'8, built like a greek statue and actually had some ok wins.

Fairly reasonable to get a little bit of hype. He lost his fight after Lewis to McCline when he injured his ankle.

Never really regained momentum after that.

 

Big tall prospect, just not champion level.

 

Was in the same camp as Holyfield, giant human being with a good physique. Was trained by Don't Turner if I recall right. People thought he was the Super Heavyweight prototype for the future. His 3 year run to the Lewis match isnt bad, it's not great, but compared to what most contenders do today it was better than that (Golota, Savarese, fringe contenders Obed Sullivan, Ahmed Abdin, Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Al Cole and David Izon)

 

Grant vs Washington? Who wins battle of the glass- jawed, towering, fringy goofballs?

 

Fellow started boxing late and never learned how to properly. Lennox Lewis also had somewhat of a late start at around the age of 13 but a much earlier start than Grant and probably a lot more natural talent.

 

Oh God, I remember the "The Heir apparent" propoganda or should we call them news articles, fellow certainly never inherited anything from boxing.

 

He defeated Golota, but thanks to the fact that Golota was unable to maintain his mental state at the required level...

 

I was hospitalized the night before Lewis-Grant, in a diabetic coma. After about two hours, I came through and asked my dad if he could pick up a few things for me at my house, my KO magazine with Grant on the cover among those.

I spent that night in my hospital room reading about Grant and sipping from those small Diet Coke cans (lol) plus eating Sunflower brand chips that nurses handed for free at that era.

Anyways I got released early the day of the fight and went home and got the PPV thinking it was gonna be potentially an all action contest, Lewis' chin always considered suspect and all here in the US. What I got to see instead was one all time great giving a very good but not great boxer whiplash in 5 minutes of action!

 

That Golota fight was awesome. He just ran into King Lennox who was the man at that time.

 

golota knocked him down twice, hard, in the first round. was WAY ahead on the cards. then, in the 10nth, golota got knocked down, got up and quit. would hardly credit that win due to grant's skill, more on golota's mental unstableness.