Frank Bruno releases Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis when he named the toughest puncher with whom he was confronted

Frank Bruno fought with heavyweight sizes like Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis, but also did not call the toughest puncher to whom he was ever faced.

Bruno remains a popular British sports personality. As is known, he had four attempts to become world champion, and finally did so when he asked Oliver McCall in 1995 when he defeated the American about unanimous decisions at Wembley Stadium.

Previously, he had challenged Tyson for the WBA, WBC and IBF title in 1989, but suffered a defeat in the fifth round in Las Vegas.

Four years later in 1993 in Cardiff in the National Stadium, Lewis turned him out in another WBC world championship. On these nights he achieved many victories against Carl Williams, Jesse Ferguson and Joe Bugner.

Talk about bizx | Bruno was asked who the most powerful man he had ever had was asked, and he did not go with the traditional big rackets of the division.

“A man named Tim Witherspoon that I fought. Yes, he was 15 laps a dangerous man.”

Bruno stood with Witherspoon, who was regular sparring partner for Muhammad Ali in July 1986, on his first attempted world championship. He lost through the 11th round and just a few months later Witherspoon even lost the title to James “Bonecrusher” Smith.

After 45 fights, Bruno retired with 40 wins at the age of 35, and his last fight was a defeat against ‘Iron Mike’ in the second world championship in 1996, which he has admitted since then was a “stupid” struggle that he had taken.