Was McCall ever cut or bruised?

I beleive he sustained a fractured cheek bone against Frazier,as you say both had great chins ,and McCall great skin tissue apparently!

 

I have never seen McCall bruised/cut. I have not seen all of his fights, but he has never looked like he's been in a fight. I did watch Gomez v. McCall (wrote about it in Euro) and Gomez looked had both eyes swelled up, a bloody mouth, and a puffy face. McCall looked like he had just walked into the ring.

McCall is a freak of nature when it comes to that.

I know the punch you speak of, in the second fight, that would have absolutely knocked out most any fighter, McCall just sort of looked like he had been slapped. He was defenseless at the time right, just standing there?
Amazing.

 

haven't seen this one, good fight?

 

Slow paced, but in technical terms and in terms of drama, pretty exciting. I remember being more riveted then (I was about 6) than for any boxing fight before or since.

 

I will check it out. :good

 

McCall has a way of rolling with punches, it's like he has a natural talent for dissipating the power.

 

Has Mcall ever been in a fight in which he is consistently nailed with clean shots. What fight would you say that epitomizes McCall's durablity to take a shot.

 

It wasnt a mouse, it was a hamster,a going away consolation prize.

 

A skill lost with most modern fighters.

 

McCall's durability is extraordinary, possibly more so then Ray Mercer. I have seen highlights of the rematch with Lewis, who connected fully with McCall's chin with combinations at the time of the stoppage, but at no time was he on shaky legs and his eyes were crystal clear.
At the post-fight conference he said his tactics were rope-a-dope and was waiting for Lewis to punch himself out!

 

McCall had a great chin, but it’s a tad over rated these days. The fans who think McCall was virtually bullet proof from punches need to see his fights vs Seldon and Douglas.

McCall was in fact visibly rocked twice by Bruce Seldon. Seldon defiantly hurt him before getting knocked out. McCall was also in a bad way late in his fight with Buster Douglas. He was hurt here too. Douglas had a chance to finish him, but didn’t.

McCall has some mental / emotional problems. While I wouldn’t call him ******ed, he is on the slow side for sure. McCall has not been cut that I recall, but he definately has a fear of being cut if you listen to his post fight interviews.